WAR MUNITIONS FOR THE ALLIES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2543, 18 August 1915, Page 5

WAR MUNITIONS FOR THE ALLIES

THE AUSTRIAN PROTEST t 1 CLEAR STATEMENT FROM WASHINGTON By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright ■ Washington, August 16. Aniorica lias answered Austria-Hun-gary's demands for a cessation of tfo t supply of ivar munitions to tlie Allies, asserting that Austria herself always r supplied munitions, whenever she got - tlio chance, to any belligerent able to > tako them. b It is also pointed out that the Ausj trian Government must have been misr led into thinking that America could f depart from a proper attitude of neutrality by preventing any nation, able t« ship munitions to Europe, from securing them. . The Note stresses "the fact that . Germany and Austria supplied Britain with ; munitions during the Boer war, dsepite the Doers' commercial isolation. > ' '■ BRITISH ORDERS IN CANADA. s FORTY-SIX MILLIONS WORTH. ' Ottawa, August 16. Official.—British orders for £46,000,- , 000 worth of munitions are being Oso- . cuted in Canada. i SHEFFIELD A VAST ARSENAL. ) ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) " (Rec. August 17, 7.40 p.m.) s London, August 16. Sheffield is a gigantio arsenal, where f the work is carried on continuously 3 day and night. The silverware trade j- has been stripped of men, who have gone to tlio munition works, but a large j volume of employment has been found 3. in tlie trade itself for- the production 1 of sword handles, scabbards, and ! badges. Tlie cutlery trade is making swords, bayonets, knives, and other cutting tools. The production of munitions is undergoing enormous expansion, while operations are being greatly extended for j the making of shells. Many new shops have been built on a large scale. These are not yet all working, but are gradually being equipped. Hitherto few women were employed, 1 because the work was too heavy. They . can. manage an eighteen-jiourider shell, . but the next size, the 4.5, is too weighty , for them to lift. They are beginning, . however, to be employed in filling slirap. 1 nel cases and making fuses." • i . 1 AUSTRALIAN SUPPLIES. POOLING THE LABOUR AND MACHINERY. Perth, August 17. The Secretary of the Munitions Committee states that owing to the inability t of the machine shops to guarantee an i output it has been decided to pool all ' : the machinery and labour, to be under the control of a committee which will act with the contractor. On behalf of the, whole interests Labour organisations may be agked to temporarily suspend certain conditions. Sufficient machines are available to produce six thousand ! cases monthly.