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Show oo DRASTIC CHANGE IN DEFENSE ACT British Government to Be Empowered Em-powered to Commandeer All Factories Required for War Purposes. London, March 9. 4 19 u m drastic amendment to tho defense of the realm act. unexpectedly present d to the house of common, thS 3 ' ruoon by Chancellor of the Echequer IT - mrm J 1 - ; i su I The chancellor proposed that the gov ernment he empowered to commandeer comman-deer all lactorles required for war ! purposes. Up to the present firms and factories facto-ries already producing war materials could be taken under government control. con-trol. The amending bill of the chancellor chan-cellor extends this power to cover all other concerns which tho government govern-ment may ish to utilize for this purpose. pur-pose. Mr. Lloyd George laid particular emphasis upon his statement that, not only the duration, but the out- JL come of the war depended upon tho 5 output of munitions The government, he declared, proposed to organize the entire engineering community through a committee, headed by business men, with the idea of assisting iu the increase in-crease of output Berlin. March 9, by wireless to Sayville, N. Y. A dispatch to the Frankfurter Zeitung says that a steamer arriving at an Italian port, ; eports having met 22 French trans ports near the island of Malta, heading head-ing toward the Dardanelles |