Grand Forks herald., 1916-08-16
ENGLAND NOW !.
VAST ARSENAL
Besides Government Plants.
There are 1000 Control
led Munitions FirrnA !,

London, Aug. 16.-The enormous
stride made by Great Britain toward
solving the problem Of munitions was
made clear in the course Of q speech
recently delivered by f. Kellaway.
parliamentary secretary to DR.. Addi.
son parliamentary secretary to tho
ministry Of munitions). Mr.. Kellaway
said the most prominent fact Of the
unlimited munitions.
days" he said, was so out-munition-
ed that the British soldier ought to
have been beaten before the lighting
began. But he proved that he was q
better fighting man than the German.
What he lacked in munitions he made
up in devil, in initiative. and in en-.
durance.
"1 do not think anything that Ger.
many has ever done equals the work
this company has accomplished in tha
way of industrial organization during
the last twelve months Great Britain.
which has throughout been the treas.
ury Of the allies, has now become
ed up and down the country some a.
900 controlled firms producing muni-
tions OF war.
''The vast majority Of these previ.
Gus to the war never produced q gun.
a shell or q cartridge: yet in ten
months the ministry of munitions has
obtained from these firms a number
duction of all the government araen.
ais and great armament shops in ex-
istence at the commencement Of the
war.
Increase of Arsemals.
speaking in the house Of commonx
last year Mr.. Lloyd George startled
the country by saying that eleven new
arsenals had been provided. Today,
not not eleven but ninety arssnals have
output of .aoa cartridge is greater by,
millions than our annual output be-
fore the war. There is a certain ma
chine gun being produced by the
hundred every week in a factory or
dered. planned and built during tho
past twelve months. The output Of
guns and howitzers has increased by;
several hundred per cent.
I'VE are not yet at the full food OF
our output of guns and shell. If the
Germans cannot be driven home 9TH
erwise, our army will have such O.
supply Of guns that the limbers will
touch each other in a continuous limo
from the Somme to the sea- France.
Russia and Italy have been supplied
many OF the most important muni-l
tions of war. Many thousands Of tonai
Of steel have been and are being sent
to France.
"our contribution toward the
equipment of the Belgian army has
been continuous. and the Serbian
army has been re-equipped and res
very largely by the workshops and
workers of the United Kingdom.
The labor situation has been to .
considerable extent saved by our
women. There were $4,000 women
engaged in war industries in 1914. To-
day there are $4,000. The total num-
Der of war workers in 1914 was L..
100000. There are All different mu-
milton processes upon which women
are now engaged. The women Of
France are doing wonders in muni-
tlon making, but our women muni-
ton workers beat the world"
Work of the Scientists.
Referring to glass Mr.. Kellaway
said:
The problem facing the govern
ment is, first, to discover the formula
OF glasses, and having discovered 1t,
to establish the industry. It is fortu-
nate that in this crisis we have avail
able few scientific men who have
been working for years almost with.
out recognition, and we have also in.
stitutions such as the imperial college
at South kensington and the nationall
physical laboratory at Teddinston.
The government went to these men
and asked them to discover the for.
mula, used by the Germans in their
production of optical and chemical!
glass.
'These British scientists, after =
few weeks experiments. discovered
many of the formulae, and it then be-
came possible to begin manufactured
on a commercial scale. The result was
that within a year after the outbreak
Of war the output Of optical glass mi
this country was multiplied four and
half times. 1t has now increased toi
fourteen times the output previous to
the war, and there is good ground for
saying that by the end Of the year itl
will have multiplied twentyfold.
The ministry Of munitions. has
built, or is building. housing accom-.
modations for $4,000 persons, and
canteens and mess rooms in muni.
tion works now provide decent accom-
mediation, where 500, 900 workers take
their meals every day.
For long time our anti-aircraftt |
gunners have been crying out for an
improved height finder for Zeppelins,
the existing height finders being slow.
clumsy and having a margin Of error
of hundreds of feet. You will realize
how that handicapped our gunners ini
their attempts to bring down Zeppe.}
Inns.
Three men set to work on the
problem and in two or three monthsi
they produced height finder which !:
gave rapidly and exactly the height
of Zeppelin. It 10 an important dis.
covery. but tho problem 10 only one
of hundreds which are continually
cropping up"