An item reported that as a result of the intervention of the commander-in-chief and the inspector of the military engineering the building of a modern torpedo workshop at the Navy establishment in Surabaya was offered to a join venture of the N.V. Ned.-Ind. Industrie and the Machinefabriek Braat in Surabaya and the Machinefabriek Bromo te Pasoeroean and to be realized within seven months.