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Show ENGLAND REGULATES PRICE OF SHELLS MANCHESTER, England, June 18. (Correspondence of tho Associated Press) England's national shell factories fac-tories act as a barometer for regulating regu-lating tho prices paid by the government govern-ment for shells turned out in privato plants. It is estimated that thoy have saved the treasury many millions of pounds. In this district thore are seventcon national shell factories. Patriotic engineers en-gineers organized them and thoy are operated so skilfully and efficiently that, despite a steadily increasing cost of material and labor, the price first pard for shells has been reduced by one-half and in some cases even more. Tho buildings of one plant cover fifteen fif-teen acres. The plant is arranged for the manufacture throughout of" both high explosive and shrapnel shells of largo calibre. Since beginning operations opera-tions it has turned out to date nearly 1,500,0000 shells. Most of the raw steel used in their manufacture came from America, also many of tho factory's fac-tory's machines. Probably at no factory fac-tory In the district is munitions work carried on at such a high and sustained sus-tained rate of speed. The number of employes xsxeeeds 10,000 of whom a largo number aro women recruited from textile and lln-olpiim lln-olpiim plant. |