Show I Great Grea Italian Machine Tool 0 1 Shops Are 4 re Reported R epo nd Command Commandeered by State Stale ROME Sept 10 The Tho Tho entire machine machine machine ma ma- chine tool toot facilities of Italy are arc re reported xe- xe ported to have hav been commandeered b by tho the government for tor or war munitions work This Includes tho the shops which ordinarily are not engaged in manu manu- military supplies The arms and steel sleet works who whose business Is to produce equipment for the army and navy remain l It Is said aId under their previous us status Italy has be been n Independent of foreign for for- eign countries for several years in tho the matter of ot equipment for tor the ami and arid navy Italian Hallan artillery for both tho the land and naval forces force Is 19 of ot Italian italIan Ital ital- ian construction and the ships of or the the navy are aro wholly built now In It Italy a Jj The government arsenals at Turin manufacture much of the tho arm army light artillery The heavy ordnance comes omes for the most part from the Armstrong Armstron works works' at The heavy forgIngs forgings forg- forg Ings for tor guns uns and armor plate IH is largely largel the product pt of the Terni steel steelworks steelworks works located at Terni not far from Rome The small arms arc are manufactured manu manu- in tho government arsenal at nt Terni and the instruments of ot precision pre pro and gun sights Rights come from the Laboratorio di dl at Rome Rom The Brescia cla arsenal nal turns turn out but much of the of-the the small amali arm ammunition together er with a n second establishment of ot the same character at Turin Torpedoes arc manufactured at Venice These weapons are of the German German Schwartz Schwartz- kopff kopf type The principle ship yards for th e navy navy- are at Leghorn and Genoa Genoa English lish ship and engine builders have o contributed largely to the of the Italian lInn works for ship co con con- Firms like Armstrong I Patterson Pat Pat- Induced e bYthe by bythe terson and others ethers were establish the Italian government to connections In Ita Italy I The Tho principal works In 10 Ita Italy which l have been found available for war warI munitIons manufacture are the automobile automobile auto auto- I mobile establishments establishment In In north Kali Italy the l locomotive shops of t the e Ii railways at nt Milan Nilan and tho the machinery works at nt Legnano The Tol Tosi voik are reported to be employing cm- cm I at Legnano about men and th the 3 Ero- Ero i da works at Milan an equal number Tho The w works with headquarters a at Milan are sai said t to have more t than an 1000 OiO men employed This Th ment Is making submarine v ires and andL sable L The Italian shops In north Italy Haly nn aio equipped quipped largely with the latest and nd best designs of or American machine tools Th The Tho Italian machinists of oC north machine tool Italy are arc un unexcelled In work and the material ml from the the- commercial shops is 18 said to lieso lie f few w rejections so j accurate that ver very arc are being made As Aft a a. rule when mx- mx chine shops which have havo never handled projectiles 5 undertake to manufacture them there thre are are- many and andIO until the workmen become IO losses skilled and experienced The aptitude aptitude tude of tho the Italian machinists to I handle difficult machining Jobs has haJ long been a subject of or co comment 0 o. o ot I torel foreign n observers |