Canberra, Aug. 23.
Mr. R. G. Menzies, Prime Ministe: in a broadcast yesterday said that düring the three months the Ministry of Munitions has been in existence he had approved a munitions programme totalling £ 100,000,000.
Australia is now supplying munitions to Britain, India and New Zealand, he said. By the middle of next year Australia will be employing directly or indirectly on munition production 150,000 people out of a population of 7.000.000. he added.—Reuter the time would.come when life could be created from a synthetic protoplasm in the laboratory.
What has happened on earth in the. past," he said, in the evolution of life from primeval molten materiel or glowing gas, understood, tions annexes. In the last war the greatest number so engaged was 2,737.
Of the total who -presented them~ selves for enlistment to June 30, 15,000 men were rejected "because Sir Oliver continually scoffed at the theory that metitemert is fatal to busy man, declaring at 77 that he;|4elt younger than he did for years:
before he gave up his.regular work.
He was, however, constantly engaged:
in a varying succession of experi.
ments and continued his investiga-p tions until late in life.
Whet he had learned from his investigations made Sir Oliver totally unafraid of death.
"There are no dead in the grave-j yard," he said when well advanced, in years.
"Do not be afraid of! death, since there is no extinction. Death is but a new adventure. In the life beyond we go up or down aecording: to chow we made use of our' opportunities in this life."—Reuter.
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