3 APRIL 1915, Page 14

PROLONGING THE WAR.

rro ens ED1Top or ma n 8.10rA7011.1 SIR,—One of the finest factories we have for the production of steel—at Glengarnook, in Ayrshire--has been idle now for month& There may be economic or esoteric reasons for this— one never knows—but when munitions are so urgent that other steel mills are being taxed to their utmost to turn out shells one may surely ask Do the Government know of this factory's equipment, its capabilities, or even of its existence ; and, further, is this the only idle rolling-mill in Scotland that is prolonging the ware—I. am, Sir, she.,

A GOVERNMENT CONTRACTOR.