WAR MUNITIONS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2544, 19 August 1915, Page 5

WAR MUNITIONS

HUGE FACTORY AT SHEFFIELD CORPORATION GRANTS SITE RENT FREE By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright London, August 17. Cammell, Laird and Co., .the wellknown shipbuilders, are erecting an engineering factory at Sheffield! for tho Government. It will cost a quarter of a million and employ 4000 hands. Mr. Lloyd George, Minister for Muni- ? tions, has congratulated the corporation on leasing tho site rent free for a period extending half a year beyond the duration of the war. MORE TROUBLE WITH SOUTH WALES MINERS.' ALLEGED DELAY IN NEW AGREEMENT. London, August 17. Mr. Runcim&n, President of the Board 1 of Trade, is endeavouring to avert threatened trouble in South Wales, • where the miners threaten to strike. 1 They complain of the coal-owners' delay in putting the new agreement into operation. (Rec. August 18, 10 p.m.) London, August 18. Mr. Runciman. presided over tho proceedings at the South Wales coalowni ers' and miners' conference. The parties are hopeful of reaching a settlement. The'miners are opposed to the old procedure of settling disputes, asserting that there have been cases to which there had been no finality for months, which had produced the great- . est irritation. Therefore they desired n, more expeditious method. The conference was adjourned. ; ' . (Rec. August 19. 0.45 a.m.)' London, August 18. i " • Mr. Runciman will decido all tlio points in dispute next week. Both sides [ are pledged to accept his decisions and i thereafter to.abide by tho terms of t'lio i settlement embodied in the agreement;' i There is to bo no stoppage of the mines. ' CANADIAN BONUS ON ZINC. Ottawa, August 17. The Government granted a bonus of two cents in tho £ on zinc, and thus secured an adequate supply for the manufacture of munitions. ENEMY'S SEARCH FOR WAR 5 MUNITIONS GIGANTIC SUMS SPENT IN AMERICA New York, August 17. The "World"- publishes a further instalment of the secret German correspondence, showing that while Austria, acting as Germany's catspaw, was protesting to Washington against the ex-' port of arms and ammunition to the Allies, a German official was spending gigantic sums to secure an endless supply of high explosives from America. A contract with the Bridgeport Projectile Company, approved by Germany's chief financial agent," provided for the construction of numerous factory buildings and the cornering of hydraulic presses for shell manufacture. The .documents explain liow the munitions were to be delivered 1 to Germany. (Rec. August 18, 2.30 p.m.) London, August 18. The "Frankfurter Zeitung, replying - to the New York "World's" disclosures, tsays:—"The German Government must ' find means to counteract our enemies' activities. Wo sliould be fools were we to'go to ruin through modesty. That we strive to purchase abroad munitions otherwise destined to fall into the hands of our enemies is such a matter of. course that the revelation of the fact is simply comical." , GERMANS WERE ALSO SHORT OF MUNITIONS ADMISSION BY VON MOLTKE. Amsterdam. August 17. e The German newspaper "Lokal Anzciger" states that Field-Marshal vori Moltke, in an interview given to Mr. . Edwin Emerson, the American journalist, says that the Germans, at the outset, were in the same predicament as their enemies. Frequently in the early ■) stages of the war they were dangerously short of munitions. Germany's success n in meeting all present and future de- )- inands was duo to the adaptability of the n old and new munitions factories, as well as the patriotism of tho workmen, s Field-Marshal von Moltke paid a i, frank tribute to tho bravery of the Eng;s lish troops.