Killing Tools In Urgent Demand

Taranaki Daily News, 2 September 1942, Page 3

Killing Tools In Urgent Demand

New York, Aug. 31. Admiral Ernest King, commander-in-chief of the United States Navy, speaking at a patriotic celebration of workers at his home town, Lorain, Ohio, said: "The Battle of the Solomons is only a hint of what will ultimately happen to the enemy, but we need every killing tool you can make. Our greatest difficulty is supplying implements to eight fronts simultaneously. We should hit our best stride on the home front within a year, then we will proceed to victory, but the war will be long and hard." He called the eight fronts the British, Middle East, India, Ohina, Alaska, Hawaii, South-west Pacific and Russia. General Somervell, supplies chief, writing in the September issue of the magazine Factory Management, warns that . industry must forget peacetime rivalry but must not forget that "we are losing the war and will continue to lose it until the home front is Unselflshly united in every thought and action with the same spirit as inspires our soldiers dying on the battle front."