The Washington times., 1915-12-29
BLOW At PEACE TALK
IN NEW WAR ORDERS
Allies Contract For Continuous
Delivery For Two Years.
$200,000,000 Contract.

NEW YORK. Dec. 2s.--Baree addt-
tional war orders-most OF them placed
with an Injunction Of secrecv-hsve been
| received in the past month or Fix weeks
by those American corporations whose
operations are all but indispeusabIe 70
the allies. Some Of these companics
have sold their entire output OF muni
tions five and six years ahead. MANY
have contracted for continuous delivery.
for two years
These new and largely increased ,r-
ders have impressed officers of big NIL
milton companies as OF tho highest s,r
nif1cance. for the reason that at abo,,,
the tine the negotiations for the s5On.-
W"W" Anglo-French loan were in th,jr
maj stages. there was a lull in the
Placing OF orders, and this Inactivity
continued for some time after concl,.
sion of the negotiations.
100000, 900 Order.
An Idea OF the amount of these new
war orders may be derived from tn.
iact That one company has secured an
aNSieSAte OF s2ooWo.oo0 in new contracts
IN the last few months.
Inc reluctance Of the allias to ,i.,.
ne" contracts in that period created
ihiSht De Undertaken in the then near
future. But in the last nontb Cd.
10 some companies, have been doubled
ana ana trebied. as well as placed for do
!NeIy In the remote future and nnv,
inc conclusion among munition makers
Is ,nat the allies expect the war 10 he
iong-drawn out "o
reasons for placing orders for doliyarv
tsIousn Two years are that. even In
49, tmS seeit OF a formulation of hosti;itics
oeIore mat time. there Is the contire-
ency that the peace would he litfIe rnnr.
than truce and leave EIurope a c.n,o
Which still must be armed, and that the
mobilization of workers in the Rri,ish
mdunniion nd 1..;i factories has not been attend
scarcity OF skilled labor.
Many Plants Increased.
Most Of the big orders Of the mast
mohth have been for arms amm,ni
uon. motor vehicles. rsilroad SUPPLIES.
rubber. copper. steel and pig iron. For
munitions the orders have been SO great
as TO necessitatc further additions to
the large plants.
The Bethlehem Steel Corporation, al
ready pushed to it's capacity mas war
oroers on its books for Ave wears
straight delivery. to say nothing Of It's
business in fabricated steel particulsr-
cry. Mr.. Schwab. II has Just becon,e
known. has abandoned efforts to MIR
chase control OF other steel plants. find
@ inE the prices asked by the owners en-
proi,ant Or 10 his mind; As an alternative
ne has decided on additions to the plant
at bethlehem. which he has long hoped
to make the equal II not the suneTior
or the kGpp plant at Essen.
, In addition to its European business
big Contracts with China sen and dnecsb1itatins cbiI.
AS sidelight on the development OF
business at the Schwab plants it has
become known that. in protection
against spying and violence. the force
OF secret police has been Increased by
1900 men.
Midvale Has Big Orders.
Next to the Schwab plants, which
have been so 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 Midyai.
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 negotiated per
sonallN with the French government
me sSo'Woooo order for twelve-inch shells
which was announced from PhiladeIphia
Friday '''''
Midvale Is also bidding on contracts
for armament for delivery in south
America.
The Midvale is now reported TO have
*loo, 900 oN in orders n its books. these IN
GLIDING the orders for ee-Enfield rifles
placed with its subsidiary. the Remips-
ton Arms Company OF Delaware. In
order TO handle the increased busine.s.
Mr.. Corey. William Rockefeller and
their associates are understood to he
looking for acquisitions such as the
Poole Engineering and Machine Com
pany of Baltimore. which has Sl7. 900 000
of war contracts and which was re-
ported all but sold to the Midvale in a
dispatch to the World Saturday.