The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-09-08
SENATOR URGES
 FRANCE TO USE ARMS RESOURCES.
Charles Humbert Editor and Statesman, Calls Big
 Shells "Essentia1s.''
ASKS NATION TO PUSH PLANTS TO CAPACITY
Old Qualifications of No Use Before High Calibre !,
 Guns, He Says.

Paris, Sept s-Senators Charles Humbert. one of the leading mem bers of the Senate Committee on Military Affairs, has written for The Associated Press the subjoined arti- cIe onst the relation of industry to the war. Senator Humbert has been conducting the successful mpaign for the high pressure production by the whole industrial resources of France of the shells and guns which Inc and his colleagues consider es- leentdal to victory. He is the new pro Iprletor of Le Journal with a circu- HIataon of about one million. Senator
 eaThe important part played by in Edustry in the present war is due. not only to 4sthe power and the perfec- ton of. firearms, but even more to Il the immense number of men in line. kThese millions of combatants would be nothing more than 3. mob predes- timed to massacre without the tools tof combat which must necessarily be supplied and renewed. and which, for ltheir uaanufacture in, sufficient quan- fitdes require the mobilization of numerous factories provided with the means of turning out the most mod ern Instruments of war.
 Long before the war it could be seen what character the hosiities kwouId take on. Personally, pre- dicted it The Germans especially, Iwere very well aware of it. and it is 1 only necessary to think for a moment | of the fornidab preparations they Ehad made to realize that they could Fput at the service of their warlike Intentions military machinery ready to it's last. detail The work they have done of recent years to renew their artillery and to supply their armies with heavy, long rangeN guns. suffi- f cientIy wieldy to be able to follow i4he movements of their troops, was most significant regret very deep I Iy that my own country, in spite of oft repeated warnings, did not follow their example. nd yet. it ought to have Eeen pretty evid ent that in this century of scientific progress, of ma-1 chinery to the limit, supplies would play in war a part as imp portant as they play in the economic life of every day
 ssBut the actual experience of war has gone far beyond any foresight for it. The destructive power of the rear1nsNrifIes, machine guns. ra- l Did frs guns of all calibres=has been so rev&a1ed16 16n the field. of battle that the cobatants have had to renounce| co1npIeteIy the system of maneuver-s ing in open countr0 Every troops which attempts to advance in the open against a weIl-armed enemy ! awaiting the attack, is. doomed fas-| tally to disaster: in an instant the fire of machine-guns moWs down the ranks Nike a blade or SLeel moving down grain; and the voIleys of artil-1 lery- rnethodically candidates thern,s letting nothing escape.
 That is the reason for the neces-# sity for seeking protection, as much as may be, against these storms of Isteel and explosives; it is the reason flor the enormous development of field Notifications, trenches, underground chambers, redoubts, concealed shel- ters and so on. The old notifications FrNR %Er %Spv1o yxad Ef- iY1cr a7J1f
 marked in advance for the fire of. the enemy artillery, cannot hold out against the projeetiless of giant can- non But thesplain ditch, scarcely a yard or: two wide, easily dug, com
 p1eted with invisible arrangements, the approach to which is made inn practicable by means of barbed wire ntangIementS-that constitutes l en- Infantry, hoping to take it at a charge, will leave before such an ob- Estacle every man, though they be in ble2sor one machine gun. give it time and sufficient to feed it. will mow down a thousand men as easily as a. hundred. and ten thou sand. # necessary. as easily as thousand.
 ..Bnt. on the other hand. this 1thread-like obstacle. dug in the ed target for artillery fire To hit l1t, 1t is not enough simply to spend projectiles-they have got to be wasted to demolish the terrain under a veritable hell of devastating ezplo-= sives, under a de1uge of shrapne1.
 .eThat is why the consumption Of munitions. and especially artillery munitions has exceeded anything that was ever conceived in time of peace. And the farther 1t goes as 9the for
 tifications of the battIefields daily become more complete and more diff dcu1t to Teach. the use of projectiles must be more widely foreseenA
 Moreover, this intensive firing it. self wears out the guns. made only to fire some thousands of rounds, and there is therefore the necessity of re- placing them unceasingIy. From this it is easy to see the enormous effort which must be required of the factor fes to keep on supplying guns and
 munitions. The group of beuigerents who will win this war is that which, thanks to its industry, will have been able to push the production of fire arms, Eprojecti1es and explosives $tos { the highest point and maintain it, there.
 .I have heard that a German off, cer, speaking to one of your conn patriots, boasted that the troops of the Kaiser would take Calais when ever they wi1le6-by paying the price which he set at 5O,O00 killed. This boast is silly. Simply spending men will not give results. The Ger mans ean pay our terrible three-inch guns a bloody price of fifty or five hundred thousand men if they please. without>getting anywhere But the day, when duly provisioned for that purpose we scatter along their lines the tempests if iron and fire that we are preparing for them, ey will have to, abandon their sburrows, and our infantry wi44AoeeHpy the ground gain ed. their guns on theiS shoulders. without losing a man.
 ss have confidence in the final vic tory-a victory perhaps less distant than is believed-of France and her lies. The a1vantage. which the Ger