Great Britain

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 15, 16 August 1916, Page 2

Great Britain

THE INCREASE IN MUNITIOCSMANUFACTURE.

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London, August 15

In the House of Commons, Mr Montague stated that Britain was manufacturing monthly twice as many [heavy guns as she possessed at the outbreak of the war. The output of .machine-guns had increased sixteenfold weekly, and the output of high explosives sixty-fold, and field howitzers eighteen-fold greater than at the beginning of 1915. tague said that the output of shells had increased so much that comparison with 1914 was useless. Besides a large amount of munitions and guns, we were supplying the Allies with metals for munitions to the value of six milions monthly, and sending to France one-third of our production of steel for shells. He urged the importance of the further dilution of labour. Forty-five thousand soldiers had been released for munition work. Six hundred and thirty-five thousand persons were employed in making munition*; a year ago, but now there was million, whereof 400,000 were women.