WAR PRODUCTION

Wairarapa Times-Age, 19 February 1942, Page 3

WAR PRODUCTION

1 AN INTENSIFIED DRIVE IN GERMANY WORK FOUND EVEN FOR SICK & BLIND. FIRST LORD ON JAPANESE MENACE.

LONDON. February 18. An official of the British Ministry of Economic Warfare states that Germany is now engaged in the greatest war production drive she has yet undertaken. Some branches of industry, amongst them textile industry, have been closed down altogether. While there has been a comb-out of industrial workers to secure more recruits for the German Army, great efforts are being made also to secure additional men for industry, especially by recruiting foreign workers. Even workers suffering from tuberculosis are now being allowed in German factories. Blind people also are being employed in war production. The attitude of the German leaders in their* demands on war industry make it clear that in their opinion it is a case of now or never. On the subject of war production the British First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr A. V. Alexander, said we could outbuild and outmatch the enemy provided we all pulled together. The Japanese menace, Mr Alexander observed, was not to be minimised, but it should galvanise all the Allied nations as Dunkirk, had galvanised Britain.