NINETY THOUSAND ENROLLED

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2512, 13 July 1915, Page 5

NINETY THOUSAND ENROLLED

FOR THE MUNITIONS FACTORIES

GERMANS IMPRESSED

By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright

London, July 11. 'Hie Munition Workers' Bureaux have been closed, after enrolling 90,000 workers. Tho Labour Exchanges Trill carry on further enrolment: ("Times" and. Sydnoy "Sun" Services.) Mr. Lloyd George, Minister for Munitions, speaking in the House of Commons, said a definite scheme had been adopted in conjunction with tho War Office for allowing skiliSl men to be released from tlieir military duties in order to work in the munition factories. Professional cricketers at; Lords and other grounds are making nosebags for Army horses. Hobbs, tho cricketer, has joined a munition factory. SHELL-MAKING IN AUSTRALIA ( caution by sir George reid. Melbourne, July 12. Tho second report of tlie Munitions Committee suggests a Government option b acquiro shell-making machinery after tho demand has subsided. . It also suggests that the Colonial Ammunition Co. erect a shell factory on these lines, and advises that tube" aricl fuse, also a machine-gun factory, 'be' erected and afterwards incorporated,'; in the Government arsenal, 'lie report further urges the manufacture'of gun cordite'by the Government cordite factory, and'the manufacture in Australia of high explosives. Sir George s ßeid, High Commissioner, cables advising caution in tho production. of shells, as tho slightest difference in any part would' make them .worse than useless. ■ : • ; , (Rec. July\l2, 8.30 p.m.) , Melbourne, July lik? Senator Pearce explains that the delay in utilising the existing means of local manufacture of munitions is entirely duo to the non-arrival of the specifications, or War Offico's approval.

MAGNITUDE OF THE ALLIES' EFFORTS k GERMAN. GOVERNMENT'S . IUtEPARATIONS. Berne, July 11. The German Government, perceiving i;lie magnitude of the Allies' munition efforts, -is convening workingmen's guilds in' order to secure a return of. mobilised, skilled workers to the factories, and : recruiting workmen not qualified to make munitions. . The Germans are apprenticing to the munition factories young - women, foreigners, 'and soldiers mutilated in the war. .