London, Oct. 13.
Steelworks where 19,000 men and women are working night*and day producing thousands of tons of steel for British naval guns, armour and. shelle are described in the press to-ay. i 1 "The men and women at the benches, lathes and furnaces are taking this war with far more seriousness than was shown from 1914 to 1918 in the factories" says one writer, "In a certain factory I visited, peacetime consumption has been trebled to the annual rate of 150,000 tons of coal, 150,000,000 units of electricity, and 1,500,000,000 cubic feet of gas. One machine shop is so big that the two liners, Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, could stand inside it.
"In another shop," the writer goes on "one of the largest electric furnaces in Europe consumes 23,000 units of electricity and deals with 70 tons of metal at a time, Another furnace, for heating the tubes of 16- inch guns, goes 80 feet into the ground, Armour and armour-piercing shells are made side by side, and tested against each other."—Reuter.
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