ONE important and far-seeing act on the part of the Government, is the decision to absorb a hundred acres of land in the vicinity of Well Hall Station, near Woolwich, into a garden city for munition workers.
Unfortunately with the problem of labour for shell manufacture that of accommodating the workers had to arise.
In nine short weeks a new town was erected in the cornfields at Woolwich, and hundreds were engaged in the construction of about 1,200 dwellings, to meet the demands of Woolwich Arsenal's new army of workers. It is not too much to say that such a venture was in the nature of a great development as regards a might demand.
Arrangements to find suitable men, in line with the militarism of Continental Powers, have also been put in hand to relieve the Army and Navy as the first line of defence and attack, overseas.
The great British Army arose phoenix-like from the ashes of disaster, and many men of weight will henceforth be a prime factor in European affairs. Britain, with her native perserverance, reversed the accepted order, and in time of war increases its power.
