Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1915-12-19
Minister of Munitions Has Provided Plan Superior to
 That of Krupp's.
MILLION MEN ARE
 MAKING AMMUNITION
No Less Than 1,346 Factories Engsg- ed in Producing Shells for Allies Guns to Fire at Germans-And
 This Is Christmas Gift to Nation.
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 Lcndtn, Dec, 1s.-vLloyd George, minister of munitions. may we'll say to the British people that his Christ mas gift to them is a complete gun and ammunition making plant Tar superior in every way to that of Krupp's, a plant which it will not be necessary to enlarge further no mat ter what the demands of war may be.
 have talked with scores of men, home on leave, officers as well as privates, and all agreed that they now have all the ammunitions they need, while enormous reserve stocks are daily being added to immediately be- hind the front, ready ito be brought forward the instant another large of- fensive is decided upon.
 At the present moment the minis try of munitions has under it's direct control no less than 1346 iTunition factories, employing more than one million hands. l have gone through many of the most important onss and what I have seen has given me very good idea of, what the aggregate out put is and of the wonderful zeal with which workers of all classes of so- ciety devote themselves to their Nasks.
 Miles and Miles of Shells. I have seen tens of thousands of automatic machine tools bite off and shape the metal, l have seen count less thousands of hands, some soft and white, others strong and evident ly used tc' work, finishing millions of cartridges every day. I have walked for miles through forests of gigantic shells lined up in scores of rows On each side of the trench through which ' passed. have seen miles of twenty one inch shells. the largest ever made ill any country, piled up in stacks fifteen feet high or more: l have passed through cities whose entire population, with the exception of the shopkeepers and servants, were en- gagged in making munitions, where every word spoken in the smoking rooms of the hotels was about muni- tions.
 As no other man Lloyd George has | understood how to awaken the feel ing of patriotism in the hearts of the Bri ish people and in an .n credibly short time he has accomplished a task which Gcrrany laughed at as impossible, just as they laughed when they first heard of Kitchener's armies.
 English Workingman Awakens.
 English workingmen at the begin- ming of the war were justly or un- i%stly, accused of selfishness and lack of patriotism. Lloyd Gsorge has cured them Of that by showing them what the war means. l know of enc factory, the repair shop of great ,, railroad, where the workingmen handed their directors an ultimatum in which they gave their employers the choice between transforming the shop into a hamilton making plant or Iseeing th:m all enlist for active ser vice at the war front.
 As for the women workers who are daily coming forward in greater num- bers, at present most of them are em- rloyed in filling cartridges Or in making eighteen pound shells for the ordinary field pieces.
 As for the factories which already before the war were engaged in mak- ing armaments they have all been greatly enlarged. I have seen one which before the war employed 12,000 hands. Now it employs 52.0OO and it has spent nearly .$10 0.O00,000 in new buildings and machinery.
 Since October, 1914. this one fac- tory has made and delivered to the government 1,O05 field guns, besides thousands. of Maxims. anti-aircraft guns, .arnoured motor cars, and naval guns of all calihres. This one factory now turns out more than 1,' 900, tons of shells week.