India At War

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In industries which are roaring day and night in the war. I've seen the changes that have taken place since the outbreak of the war.

This is a Bengali. Oh. My name is Choudhuri. My youngest son, Deva Das, is a lieutenant in the fourth Indian Division. My elder son Vishwanath is a skilled technician in the great Tatanaga steel mill.

Here for the great iron and steel works, a Tata's now stands, not so very long ago was a jungle. I remember 40 years ago when tigers and leopards stalked over these very grounds. In the jungle we found that hill there, 3,000 feet high with great deposits of iron ore.

Near here we found coalfields. We brought in coke ovens and blast burns. And here at Jamshedpur, the Indian firm of Tata's built this great steel mill. The biggest single plant in all the British Commonwealth.

And here my son Vishwanath works in the production of steel coalfields. They are just about ready to pour the metal over there. This is my son Vishwanath. All that metal you see there was mined and smelt it here in India.

You have enough here for your war effort? We are even exporting pig iron. And what is this metal for? This metal they've just poured. Armor plate for armored cars for all purposes. Cars, the lorries, attractors.

We're also supplying steel for india's minis and factories. It goes into many things. Pilmets, rifle and machine gun magazines. Are they getting ready to pour again? We lose no time. That mass of molten metal.