Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-10-16
10000 EMPLOYED |
. BY KRUPPS MAKING
MUNITIONS OF WAR
10000 Added to Again Place
Germany In Lead With
Material
MILLIONS OF SHELLS
TURNED OUT WEEKLY
l,lOO Working On Big Guns
at One POint---Drills Army
Of New Workers
BY Carl w. Ackerman.

Omitted Press staff correspondent
Essen, Germany, Oct. 16.-Twenty
thousand new workers will this week.
join the force of 10000 already employ
ed at the great Krupp gun works in the
gigantic task Of turning out shells and
guns to feed the German armies.
The addition of this huge force is one
step in the course Germany's renewed
efforts to win the war is taken under
the direction of Field Marshal Won
Hindenburg, now chief of staff. Many
skilled workmen are being recalled
from the front to aid in speeding up
the production Of war supplies and bar
racks are being built here to house
them
From conversations with Krupp direc-
tors, with August Thyssen, the /" Carne-
gle of Germany and other industrial
leaders, three. facts become apparent re-
garding the German campaign since
Hindenburg assumed leadership. ~
First - Germany plans to maintain
her supremacy in the artillery branch Of
warfare by increasing the supply Of
guns and ammunition.'
Secondly renewed submarine EFF
forts she plans to stop contraband GO
ing, to England from neutral European
countries, to halt ammunition ship
ments from America to England to stop
Canadian transports from carrying
troops to Europe.
To Force England's Hand. 4
Thirdly an offensive against Rus
sin and Rumania, while maintaining an
iron wall defensive in the west, she
plans to bring England between the
jaws of Hindenburg1s military wise
and pinch her until she makes peace.
Krupps may be SAID to be- getting
q second wind. eIndtstries 'tkroue houf
the entire Rhine and fRuhr valleys,
where shells roll out weekly by. the
millions, are preparing the army for
the final stretch. A visit to the great
gun plants here give one an impression
of the gigantic plans Germany is mnk-
ing.
Essen now feels so secure against pos
sible air raids that the anticraft. guns
have been removed Defense Of the city
was found unnecessary become the
smoke rising from hundred thousand
chimneys night and day forms thick
cloud over the entire Rhine and Ruhr
valleys, making it impossible for aero
planes to distinguish between Duisburg,
Melheim and Essen, though miles sep
arate the cities. In the latest allied
air raid three children were killed and
the roof knocked off one house near
Essen, but the Krupp establishments
were not touched ~
The Krupp factories are so enormous
and the machinery so great that work.
men look like dwarfs. The women
workers, numbering 10000 and dressed
in overall bloomers, add a touch of
fairyland.
Plants Grow Like Muchrooms.
The plants are growing like much
rooms. Some idea of their tremendous
size may be gathered from the fact that
in one storeyard million shells are
kept always on hand and this number
is being steadily increased. In the cen
ter of the plant is large target range
where shells and cannon are tested be-
fore being sent to the front.
In this great plant science studies
every lesson Of sea battles an dartillery
duels and works out the details. The
manufacture of armor plate and big
guns is tedious and exact series of
acts as those by which q pharmacist
prepares prescription. Before some OF
the ingredients are used it takes four
months to prepare them.
In one building, 100 men were work
ing on only pig guns. In another build
ing smaller guns were being drilled. In
still another 81 ton pieces of armor plate