The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-06-11
MILL ONS IN
 WAR ORDERS.

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 Mase EE9aEturers of GEearns and | ATnn1a1nte1en in this country Sold dur ing Mazsah, cartridges worth $1,6aS.- 000s explosives worth $1, 150, o0o and | the Wag7ai nSton. correspondent of the | ssBh4ladeaphia. Record ' who says that | although the figures are only approx | Innate, tlAey come from sources so | high that they are quite trustworthy. l How much of this went to the allies l cannot be ascertained.
 For tlAs wear ended June 80, 1913. l the total NaIue of cartridges exported from the United States was only s452. .OfAO: of lgunpowder, $1O6,O00 and 1 of firearras $1 199,152, only "a | triflknE yarlouna of the last item go&ng 1 to any o@ the present beligerent na- dons.
 For ,theA year ended June 30 ,1s14. 1 was $2A583S0OO; of gnnpowder. $18S,- ] 900; of firssarrns, $2, 304soO0s A large l number Zof Slaese cartridges were sent | to Russia in June. In August and Sep | tember the sinorease was not pro aounced. but sin October Francef pur- | chased cartridges to the value of 1 $2SO 1000, and. firearms to the value or S392, ,OO0; while the United Kingdom paid .STO0, ,O00 for cartridges and S86 OaOs for fArearrns.
 Since Staose dates and up to March France has paid $1,645. 900 for cartrfde,es $1laS ,O0O. for firearms (mostIy ptstoIs) and .$2,1so,oOo for explosives other t11ans powder. Eng ianl in sffae same time paid for the same wazSes, $2 .2S5. .0o0.k $2, 10s, ,0O0and l S49OOOO. while Russia bought no cartridges. but paid for firearms S1,750,0 900. land for explosives Sz17.- GOO.
 The cartrEdge sold up to April are believed to be for rtfles, pistols and nachineA guns and the heavy 4S1Irch asers 4of Hhesea have been France and England A Most or the gunPoW- derN Nhast tbeenA sold to Canada. France has been& the heaviest purchaser of expIosivesE other than gunpowder, some of wtach has been guncotton, hut most of4 it trinzto-to1oud, 6. coal far product chiefly used as the ex- pIosive for shells. It5 is quite harm lessSif free. when it may be ignfted u-itflSa11t danger, gbut it's bursting force when .detonated3 under pressure is terrific4
 @FeronaF the amounts paid for fire arms it is knownx that, some machine guns have been purchased; that France has bought no firearmss but pistols, that Russia has bought at least nine Aand probably fourteen guns Of 1arges cahbres at least 14-inch, at a cost of $325 900 apiece. At least two heavy coast defense guns were sent to kIrelandt and two more to. ScotIansd, at a cost of nearly $1,400.-s 900: and England has bought some military rifles All these sales have been made and Sthe munitions have been, deliSaered-
 OfAApriIA and May shipments there are no records availaEbFe; but it may easily be nferEed that they greatly . iexceed any aof- the prevous months; for in, AsugaasA 1914, the concerns taking Athese contracts either were not eouippede or were scanti1y equipped to turn out these Aart1caes- They nave had to nsake ne tools aza q machinery and to train nnechanzc Tor the espe- ciaI work which they are just be-, ginning to do son asvgreat scale
 With the largest plants in full working condition some time must elapse after an order is given before the workacan be delivered; and doubt less some arnonfhsS elapsed before the foreign apoAweEs turned to American rnanufa ctuHers
 The drain..on the ammunition sup ply is almost inca1cuaabEe. If there be 5000 900 nenAin. the allied armies it may be assured that they have not fewer than 30sOOONfiesd pieces and the same number ofS machine guns Ac- cording to the American standard there should be onahand for each rifle $40 cartrldges for reach machine gun 21,o0O: or 3,S30 ,OO91 900 rifle cart ridges. besides supplies for losses and constant expenditures. Assuming that the average. field paece is the 75- n1il1imeter gun, by the same standard each gun should haveS1 800 rounds of explosive of sshrapneI shell, or 54 0OO,OO0-
 The rese urces of the world must be drawn upon to meet t11fs demand, and outside of Europe, where nearly all the nations are engaged in angry contest, the private concerns of the United StatesA are the only ones able to respond.
 It has beent saidx that a circle de- scribedg aahouts P ewbRargs on the Hud- son, with a 17O-Tni1eesradius, would in cIude nearly all the territory where rial lies This wouldt include Lowell Springfield, Hartford, New Haven, Bridgeport, Dover, Wilmington, and other cities.
 Briefly summed up. .the manufac- turers of this country have under taken to produce vast quantities of war material to meet the foreign de- mand for it. Without violating the neutrality requirements they may sell take it across the ocean to its place of delivery. Germany and Austria can get along very well without our uaI1ufa ctures, but they want our raw material; @ especially copper and, breadstufs; yet they cannot carry them home
 France does not need our nanu- factures a1though it will take some; but Russia needs our manufactured. war material, anda England must have our raw material and our manufac- tured arms and ammunition.
 The American leaders of industry have risen to this opportunity; but without American ingenuity and skilled Workmen their efforts could hardly be crowned with success
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