THE NATION'S RESOURCES

Evening Star, Issue 23379, 23 September 1939, Page 14

THE NATION'S RESOURCES

MOBILISATION CONTINUES SPEEDING-UP PROCESS (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY September 22. (Received September 23, at 11 a.m.) As a further step towards the mobilisation of industrial resources to meet war needs, where these resources are at present in reserve the country has been divided into thirteen areas, ensuring problems such as labour, transport, and overlapping being dealt with speedily in the full knowledge of local conditions. Regional directing organisations are now being set up by the Ministry of Supply Stress will be laid on the need for machine tools, upon which the country’s war production so much depends. By supplying such tools the reserve resources can make a contribution of vital importance. Meanwhile officers are surveying plant, floor space, and other essentials to ensure that no productive capacity whieh can be used or. adapted for use in the war effort is neglected. The first demands on supply have been trtet. An example of what has been done is the equipment of a field force. The equipment provided has in , fact more than satisfied the. demands. In addition to what was required for immediate use great reserves are ' already available to meet expansions and to repair --inevitable wastage. While these and other short-term requirements have been satisfied, the larger task of expanding the mobilisation of' the Nation’s resources for a long-term prosecution of war are being energetically tackled. The resources of stocks, plant, nd skill not already serving war needs are being directed to .their spheres of greatest usefulness.