THE WAR FACTORY OF THE NATIONS.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 108, 8 May 1909, Page 5

THE WAR FACTORY OF THE NATIONS.

Essen is the Army and Navy Stores ot the nations (says the Daily Mail). Essen is Krupps ; Krupps is Esseu. War is its primary business, and it may be busy ere long. Wherever one goes in Essen a Krupp factory is the feature of the street. The gates are open, but double sentries guard them, and no one may pass without credentials. In the private hotel at the works you may meet any day representatives of half the armies and navies of the world, c-ome to see their fighting machines being made and tested. Here are Japaneso sitting at dinner near Russians, Chinese, and South Americans, Italians and Austrians. For this is the international arsenal where all may furnish themselves in whatever is essential to tho art of war. Krupps make the great gans and the little guns for the warships ; they make the armour to defend the skips, and the projectiles to pierco the armour. At Kiel they make the ships themselves and the engines to drive them. They make" at Buckau the plates for forts, and at Essen they make the field guns and the i rifle barrels for the army. Shot and shell of every description they will make for you. Any new republic or kingdom can be furnished with an army and navy complete by Krupps, if it can only find the men. The cannon factories obliterate one's impressions of Woolwich. In half a century the Krupps have turned out 210,000 cannon, which would give them a rate of production in the busiest periods of something approaching a thousand a year.