HOW KRUPP'S SOLD GERMANY.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13995, 27 January 1916, Page 2

HOW KRUPP'S SOLD GERMANY.

:♦■ In the fulness of time the people of Germany will realise that their fleet ha-j been run not sc much as an instrument of war, but rather as a means of swelling the income of the Krupp family. There is already a, largo body of people there to whom the great armament firm is known as a corporate of "Panzer-plattenpatricteii''—armour-plate patriots, who demand a big fleet solely that they may make profits out of providing it. But Krupp's have done worse than that. Having the equipment of tho navy in their own hands. and enjoying the reputation of being the greatest artillery -'experts-of the • age, they have furnished Germany with a fleet of battleships, in whoso design th© hand of tho "profiteer'1 is everywhere visible. If j'oai take'a picture of any German battleship built within the last twenty years (says the "London Magazine"^ youvwill find that she fairly bristles with guns. Every aivailafble position is occupied by an llin, a 6.7, or 5.9^ and the smaller guns especially are ofter bunched together in tho most amazing manner. That they would interfere seriously with each other in action does not seem to Rave mattered. That a single shell bursting\among them might instantly put half aVdozen guns out of business has weighed for nothing. Tho business of the gun-makers- was to get-. ■ rid of as many guns as they ■could, for"/ every one sold brought more marks to the till. " ' .