The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday August 3, 1915. SPEEDING UP ARMAMENTS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1432, 3 August 1915, Page 2

The Manawatu Herald. Tuesday August 3, 1915. SPEEDING UP ARMAMENTS.

Tint formation of the Munitions Committee for Scotland, although long delayed, has been enthusiastically taken up by all classes of employers and their men. There has been an outstanding speedingup in shipyards, engineering shops, armament works and in factories. City clerks have willingly worked in hatches of six hours in armament works alter their day’s business is over in the city, and the spirit of comradeship is closely cemented. “Clyde shipbuilders have disclosed that they are engaged upon a new type of war vessel,” says the British Trade .Review, “and they have called upon their men to do their utmost to speed their readiness for the fighting line. Armament makers in Glasgow have also on hand guns which will astonish the world, while other firms are engaged iu work which will quickly free the seas of the dreaded submarine. Large squads of men have been withdrawn from mercantile work to naval, with the outcome that many tramp and cargo boats are now without the sound of the riveter’s hammer. Shipowners have retrained from even inquiring for cargo steamers, as shipbuilders will not quote. Accordingly, the appreciation in the value of steamers afloat has been outside the ken of man. Owners, however, are mostly tied down to the “flat” rates fixed for Government work.