Evening journal., 1915-07-28
AS seen IN ENGLAND
BY ED L. KEEN
United Press staff Correspondent.

OF course he has learned several
other lessons. among them That it
doesn't nay to conceal the truth;
that the British people resent being
treated like children; that they can
stand hearing bad news, and that
when the situation is put before them
with frankness they can actually be
as patriotic as Frenchmen--or Ger
mans.
But the one big lesson-which the
Germans have taught him-is that
war nowadays is quite as much OF
a business as u is a science. He has
seen all the old theories OF warfare
upset. He wasn't prepared for the
change in styles. He had no idea the
system of trench warfare would. be-
come so highly developed; that such
an amount of high explosive shells
would become necessary; that q pre-
ponderating supply of machine guns
might spell all the difference between
success and failure; that the Ger
mans would introduce the use of
asphySiating gas. liquid FIRE. and 9TH
err like agencies hitherto unrecog-
nized in the conduct of civilized war
fare-but above all that the German
superiority in the new style OF fight
ing was due to the mobilization OF
the entire industrial resources Of the
empire co-incidently with the mobil-
ization of soldiers
Take the matter of machine guns
alone The Germans concentrated
their manufacture Result These
weapons have practically rendered
the rife useless and caused the
slaughter of British troops. when on
the offensive. in numbers entirely
disproporticnate 70 that of Germans
IN similar circumstances Machine
chinery for making them requires
some nine months to build
II was this question Of munitions
that finally brought home 10 the Brit
ish government appreciation of the
absolute necessity of modelling the
industry OF the nation If the war was
TO be brought to a successful con
clusion. France did il early in tie
war, but her industrial resources
even in peace times, were exceedingly
limited as compared with those OF
the British empire, and TO-DAY her
most important industrial provinces
including 20 per cent. Of her steel
production are in the hands of the
enemy.
It is up to Great Britain to help not
only France. hut Russia, as we'll as
herself. The driving or the Russian
armies out of Galicia. was due solely
TO their lack of ammunition.
Hitherto Britain had been concen
trating upon soldiers Now she II
concentrating on munitions. "Get into
the factory line and supply the frins
line has replaced on the posters the
old familiar your King and country
need you at tho front" They are ever
brin ging back from the trenches skill
ed workmen whose enlistment, IL 4
now agreed, should never have beei
permitted. The enrolment Of volun
teers in the Kings army-the us
Of the term "Kitchener's army" ha
recently been abandoned in the pos
ters-of course continues, but the en-
listment Of men at all qualified To-
work in munition-snIps is discour
aged
With the realization that organiza
ton Of the country-s industries %
the manufacture of munitions ha
become Imperative came appreciation
of the fact that the machinery Of III
/ government was inadequate Lorl
Kitchener had net only been over
loaded personally. but the antiquatei
system of the War Office had provei
itself incapable of handling tho prob
lem. So the government-mostl,
Prime Minister Asquith-decided l.
appoint a general business manager
Lloyd George, the little Welsh solic
itor. who so successfully mad beel
running the nations finances. afte
a record of constructive reform
legislation without parallel in histor.
was chosen. He was given the it'll
of Minister of Munitions: but hi
commission was practically to TAX
charge of the industries of the coun
try. The first thing he did was 4
tell his fellow countrymen the trutl
the grave danger confronting tn
empire through the deplorable slack
ness hitherto prevailing in the manu-
facture of the instruments Of wal
Next he brought both labor and CAPT
tai into line. He got the trades union
associated with munition-making L
agree to suspend during the war thei
rules restricting output and to ben
all their energies toward the desire
object: and he got the manufacturer
to agree TO forego all additional pro
fits arising out OF war contracts 4
excess of 20 per cent. To clinch mat
ters he had parliament put these an
other regulations into legislation, in
Guiding immediate government con
troll of the workshops, and the crea
ton of a munitions court with powe
10 infict adequate penalties for slack
ness. strikes. lockouts. etc. FINAL
to insure an uninterrupted flow @
munitions in the largest quantity pos
sible from the United States and Can
ada. he sent hotfoot to America on
Of England's ablest business men. I
A. Thomas.
Meantime, Just 10 demonstrat,
Lloyd George went into one Of tn
manufacturing districts where. unde
the old system Of sub-contractin
about 10 600 shells month were bt
ing produced, injected a little ginge
and started an output of 10000 shell
month. which he expects to hay
| increased to an average of 800 ,0e
Z He believes that dnder the system a
ready inaugurated the United Kins
dom alone will soon be able to 2,
coed the estimated production of III
Central Continental Powers OF $50
600 shells a day.
JULY 4 INSPIRES CLEAN-UP.
BRIDGEVILLE. Del, July 2S.-Th
Fourth of July celebration IN Bridge
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