VISIT TO THE KRUPP WORKS

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11764, 26 February 1919, Page 7

VISIT TO THE KRUPP WORKS

A OOBWEBBED DESOLATION. GREAT RESURRECTION PREDICTED. XJui's'l Service. Loudon, Feb 20 The Daily Express' correspondent -succeeded iu visiting Krupp’s works at Essen and found the great factories and miles of workshops silent and ghostly, covered with rest and cobwebs. Until November Krnpps turned out from 21 to 22 millions of shells monthly and a gnn every forty-five minutes. Forty thousand workers were demobilised within a fortnight of signing the armistice, t The director, Herr Bauer, told the correspondent that the original idea of the Big Bertha was to construct a gun to bombard London from Calais after the first advance. The retreat compelled abandonment of the idea until the final offensive neared Paris. Then Berthas were constructed for Paris bombardment and sighted by Berlin mathematical professors. Krupps are planning the conversion of the place into industries and are rapidly establishing a cradle for a potential commercial war. The directors declare that they have enormous stocks of iron ore from Alsace Lorraine and Sweden.