SPEEDING UP THE OUTPUT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2683, 1 February 1916, Page 5

SPEEDING UP THE OUTPUT

FRANCO-BRITISH MUNITIONS CONFERENCE ' \ COMMON ARMAMENTS PROGRAMME 3y Teloi-raDh—Press Association—CoryTiE&t Paris, January 30.' A. commission, consisting of Mr. Lloyd Georgo (Minister of Munitions), Mi'. Bonar Law, General Sir W. ."Robertson (Cliief of the . Imperial General Staff), General J. P. Duca.no, Mr. A. H. Lee, and Mr. J. I. Maopkerson, M.P.'s, liave arrived to confer with M. Albert Thomas, French Minister of Munitions, with reference to speeding up the oul> put of munitions and closer co-operation m production. London, January 30. Mr. Lloj'd George and liis colleagues liad two meetings with the general staffs and experts for the purpose of framing a common armaments programme for t-lio' Allies. FRANCO-ITALIAN CONFERENCE London, January 30. Official. —M. Etair. Bourgeois (Minister without portfolio), M. Albert Thomas (French Minister of Munitions), General Welle, General Joftre and his Cliief of Staff, and also a representative of the Foreign Ministry, will visit Italy in the middlo of February for consultative purposes. " GRAVE AND URGENT" ANGLO-ITALIAN ECONOMIC QUESTIONS. Rome, January 30. Til© "Tribmia" states that Baron Mayor, formerly Ambassador at Constantinople, is going to London to discuss grave and urgent economic questions, which may necessitate an AngloItalian agreement.