The Washington times., 1915-12-29
BLOW At PEACE TALK
IN NEW WAR ORDERS
Allies Contract For Continuous
Delivery For Two Years.
$200,o0o,oo0 Contract.

NEW YORK. Dec. 2s.-Larse addi-
uonal war orders-most Of them placed
with an Injunction OF secrecy-have been
received in the past month or nix weeks
by those American corporations whoso
operations are all but Indispensable to
the allies. Some OF these companies
have sold their entire output OF muni-
uons five and six years ahead. MANY
have contracted for continuous delivery
for two years.
These new and largely increased or
ders have Impressed officers of big nnn-
milton companies as OF the highest sIS-
nincance. for the reason that at about
the time the negotiations for the $780,
OOOOOO Anglo-French loan were in their
maj STAGES. there was a luIl in the
placing OF orders. and this inactivity
continued for some time after conclu-
sion OF the negotiations.
$2OO,OO0,OOO Order.
An idea Of the amount of these new
war orders may be derived from iba
tact that one company has secured an
aggregate Of 500. .O00. 900 in new contracts
In the last few months.
Inc reluctance Of the allies to pleca
new contracts in that period created
the inference that peace negotiations
might be undertaken in the then near
IutUre. But in the last month ordcra
10 some companies, have been doubled
ana ana treoied. as well as placed for de-
livery in the remote flture and nv
the conclusion among Tpunitior n,.Eer,
long-drawn out 70
reasons for placing orders for delivery
LnrouBh two years are that ave-, -
the event of a Termination oS hoStj,i,,nai
OeIore that time, there Is the contipa-
ency that tho peace would be little more
Ihan a truce and leave Europe a camp
which still must be armed ana that the
mobilization of workers in the Rritish
niunltlon factories has not been attend
eu with complete success because of a
scarcity OF skilled labor. -
Many Plants Increased.
Most Of the big orders Of the paat
month have been for arrnE. ammuni-
uon' motor vehicles. railroad supplies.
rubber, copper, steel. and pig iron. For
munitions the orders have been SO great
as TO necessitate further additions TO
the large plants.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation, al
ready pushed to its capacity mas war
orders on its books for Ave years'
straight delivery, to say nothing of It's
business In fabricated steel. particular
ly structural steel, for domestic deIiv-
cry. Mr.. Schwab. Il has Just become
known. has abandoned efforts to pIir-
Gnase control OF other steel plants. find-
ing the prices asked by the owners eX-
orbitant to his mind. As an alternatives
ne has decided on additions to the plant
at Bethlehem, which he has long hoped
70 70 ma make The eGual. Y not the superior,
or the kH1pp plant at Essen.
In addition to its European business
bethlehem Steel has been neRotiating
big contracts with China and Chile.
AS a sidelight on the development OF
become known that. in protection
against spying and violence. the force
OF secret police has been Increased by
1000 men. a..i -
Midvale Has Big Orders.
Next to the schwab plants. which
have been 50 necessary to the allies that
Mr.. Schwab could charge his own price
the biggest OF the recent orders are un-
derstood to have gone to the MidyaIe
Steel and Ordnance Company. William
e, Corey. who spent the greater part of
his time in France from his retirement
as president of the United States Steel
CORPORATION till the outbreak OF the war
IS understood to have neEotiated per-
sonally with the French government
the $50, ,OO0O 900 order for tweIve-inch shells
which was announced from Philadelphia
Friday.
Midvale Is also bidding on contracts
for armament for delivery in South
America.
The. Midvale is now reported to have
500, 90 In orders In its books, these In
cluding the orders for Lee-Enfield rifies
placed with its subsidiary. the RemipR-
ton Arms Company OF Delaware. In
order 10 handle the increased business
Mr.. Corey. William Rockefeller and
their associates are understood to be
looking for acquisitions such as the
Poole Engineering and Machine Com
pany Of Baltimore. which has $1,000. 900
OF war contracts and which was re-
ported ali but sold to the Midvale in a
dispatch to the World Saturday.