L.C.1, Will Make Munitions at Pretoria Capetown, Feb. 12, The Government of the Union of South Africa 1s taking stock of the nation's available war strength and adopting measures to increase it.
Among the more important of these measures is an agreement already signed with Imperial Chemical Industries for the erection of @ muni tions factory at Pretoria capable of producing 10,000,000 rounds machine-gun ammunition ennwally for the use of the whole of British South Africa.
'A War Supplies ° Board has also. been formed to discover what war materials can be manufactured within the Union in times of war and peace, and also to plan, in consultation with the general. staff, how mobilization should be' conducted in the event of to avoid paralysing the civil population, 'The British' Government has under= taken to supply the Union with 100 modern Hawker "Hartbeesto" fight-, ing aeroplanes at £200 each, which ess than one-twentieth of "their Value, for delivery before April, 1988, The South African Air Force is building another 100 "of these machines under Meence—Reuter,
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