Savings in reverse at the Lorient arsenal

Lorient, November 27. - Serious news has just caused turmoil among the Lorient population. In fact, a further reduction in the arsenal's working personnel is announced, which will be reduced from 3,650 to 3,000 units. Many families who intended their children for the arsenal will find themselves affected, because it is likely that for several years there will be no more apprentices or almost no more.
It is also difficult to explain this decision, taken, it seems, exclusively to favor private industry to which, as in La Seyne, we entrust the repair of large units, which the arsenals could carry out more cheaply. . Finally, we do not seem to suspect, on Rue Royale, that there is unparalleled equipment and installations in the Lorient arsenal which will be idle unnecessarily. These are economies in reverse.

(L'Œuvre.)