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Show BUSH ARE READY. FOR v PEACE IRK : Five Thousand Plants Are Prepared for the s Change-Over. By Harold E. Bechtol : Kuropean Manager of the Newapapar Enterprise Association. LONDON. England, Nov. 21. England has her plana nil laid for the great ln-vJusffial ln-vJusffial change over. Tha whole count rv it now on vaet munition factory. There r about & large concerns which hava been engagad In munitions work. Thene factories hava been preparing for montha tor tha nittrk change" and ara ready to awlth to pcac tlma opera ' tiona Immediately. Munition la by no mean a tha onhT brattch of Industry where sharp read- jutmnt will be necessary. Hut tha aam statement of pre paredneaa holdi true generally. PEACE TIME NEEDS. The mlnlatry of reconstruction, which haa been operating tor mora than a year, land which haa made an extensive eur-vev eur-vev of the Industrial problem, haa aider) manufacturers now engaged on war work In tha preparations for the advent of peace. And It haa worked out plana for converting many government operated plantn Into production of materlala whtch will be sorelv needed when peace comet. To - is aataWiwply im mlniaiee. haa worked, twenty sutx-ommiltees 01 expert a have completelv surveyed a many parts of the neighboring field and hava drawn up ptane for tha change over, which have ben placed at tha dls-, poem! of the Industrial chlefa. Immobilization plan have been given careful study, and while the official re- port haa Tim yet r,ee7rrtpud. H la knowr that It provide for disbanding hv th needa nr different trm), and not ru -miliary umii Mn WM Pi large families will also be reteaiw-d early. MORE 'INDEPENDENT. Tha mtmstry of recon at ruction ha dwelt particularly on the possibility 01 development of Industrie making ar tlclea formerly Imported from Germany auch as electrical apparatua. hardware, a tamped mtal telephone apparatua. And It la flatly atated that "Britain la Jrolng to make a )rt more of thee thing or herself after tha war. Many materiitia wtll in; dependent upor hipping, of course, but aa for work tt be done the needa are ao great that ther la no call for anxiety over the proa pee t of any "Industrial lump," officiate aay One Instance son, moo new homea are needed in the British Islea Immediately after the war Thla opena a huge field for varioualnduatrlea. |