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THE AVALANCHE STARTS 517
BUT THE REAL FEVER OF WORK IS HERE!
Our campaign now is to be directed almost entirely against German submarines, for it is un
thinkable that the Teuton High Seas Fleet either could escape the British cordon, or overcome
it. For this reason, this section of the Naval Gun Works, which is given over to the manufacture
of rifles from six inches in caliber down to the tiny one-pounders, is working three shifts. The
eport has it that each of the "submarine swatters" we are putting out is to be armed with a six-
pounder. All of the thousand or more wooden merchant ships are to have two guns apiece—
either 3-inchers or 4.7-inchers. and most of these weapons have to come from this plant