WAR MATERIALS

Wairarapa Times-Age, 10 June 1940, Page 5

WAR MATERIALS

INCREASING OUTPUT IN AUSTRALIA MANY TYPES OF MILITARY EQUIPMENT. GUNS AND DEPTH CHARGES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 8. Details are now available of the extent to which the war effort of Australia is being increased by expansion of the production of munitions and other war material. British destroyers are using depth charges made in Australian factories, and Australian bombs will soon be dropped on German targets as a result of enlargement of the factories in Victoria. Rifles, small arms ammunition and machine-guns made in Australia are being used by the Australian Imperial Force in Palestine, by the forces of India, New Zealand, and the colonies, and by services fighting in Europe. There are four Government-owned arms factories in Australia, and before the end of the year one of them will be producing Bren guns. The Commonwealth also produces anti-air-craft guns, armoured cars, military vehicles, rifles, machine-guns and every type of air bomb. Apart from the arms munitions production, Australia is proceeding with a national war savings campaign aiming to reach £10,000,000 by the end of June. MR CURTIN’S VIEW NATION SHOULD BE PUT ON WAR FOOTING. (Received This Day, 11.20 a.m.) PERTH, This Day. The Leader of the Federal Labour Party (Mr J. Curtin), speaking at a patriotic rally, said: “There can be no security for Australia except by the nation being put on a war footing immediately.”