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MUNITIONS
engineering capacity of the country is still working for the Navy.
The total number of machine-guns in existence fifteen months ago can now be produced in from three to four weeks at the present rate of output.
The output of rifles for the last year has been three times that of the first year of the war. The equipping of the Army now overseas as regards machine-guns and rifles has been wholly done from home sources.
The home production of small-arms ammunition is now three times as much per week as a year ago, and a large surplus stock has been built up.
The production of high explosives
