MUNITIONS

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2618, 13 November 1915, Page 5

MUNITIONS

BRITAIN'S GREAT OUTPUT

By Talesraph.—Press Association—Copyright London, November 11. With tlie idea of affording glimpses of the gigantic organisation.of tho munition industries, a party of representative pressmen is touring typical workstops. It saw two establishments at' Birmingham where cartridges, shells, fuses, and primers are turned out almost in incalculable quantity. One factory will soau reach a production of 11,000,000 cartridges weekly, ajid 20,000 shells weekly,. The work, is mostly being done by women, 3000 of whom are housed in a single vast workshop'. One factory has trebled its output since last November; another, wholly new, covers eleven acres. Two employ 12,000 people. This is merely typical of scores of others. The wholo country is divided into munition areas, controlled hy looal boards of engineers 'and experts. Besides twenty national shell factories and eleven national heavy projectile factories, there are 1346 controlled workshops employing over 1,000,000 people., The spirit; in the industrial Midlands is different from that in London. A strong, eager determination to do solid war work is seen everywhere ; evidently tho munition- workers have settled down to a long war, working as_ if it were a great business undertaking intended to last a generation, or even a hundred years. BRITISH AIR CRAFT. 'ANTI-ZEPPELIN AEROPLANES. Ghrfstianla, November 11. ■ The "Aftonposten's" London corresCdent describes a British anti-Zeppe-aeroplane of 200 horse-power, whioh rises to a height of 8000 ft. in twenty minutes. It is equipped with formidable guns and projectiles.