Meanwhile, "shadow factories" are at present training a large number of workers in aircraft construction. These are auxiliary factories attached to existing motor plants. By a rotation system, all workers in motor concerns are given a period of training in aircraft construction in these auxiliary plants, The motor car factories have already in store all the necessary tools for the construction of planes, so that in time of war they can be immediately transformed into aircraft factories.
The large Morris Motors plants, however, will be used for the construction of motor tractors and tanks, while all other motor car concerns will be switched into aeroplane factories in time of war.
The possibility is also being considered of attaining an annual peacetime production of 5,000 planes and an annual war-time production of 20,000 machines, Well-informed circles pointed out that no other country could compete with Great Britain in this line as their motor factories are not equipped for such a construction—Havas, Gen. Chiang Kai-shek Resigns from Committee Hankow, Feb. 7.
General Chiang Kai-shek to-day issued an order that, despite the present hostilities between China and Japan, the Chinese Government programme for the complete suppression of opium trafic and consumption within a period of six years, must be continued, with domestic punishment for offenders according to military The Generalissimo, however, announced his resignation as Inspector-General of the National Opium Suppression Committee, as well as the abolition of that office.
Hereafter, the work of opium suppression will be entrusted to the Ministry of the Interior, and opium suppression in various provinces will be carried out by the departments of Civil Affairs in the various provincial governments—Reuter,
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