New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-10-08

tics In the wharf.-the initiation Of gas attach,
the fear Of being poisoned, which German on
GERS have displayed, and the actual uss =,
disease germs in South Africa, all cummings,
suggest the criminal rather than the knivb,
in shining armor. Submarine and Zeppelin
too, even though we be forced 70 adopt than
are the felons, not the knights Grant Of mod
ern war.
The only genuine American letter that IA.
yet been really held up is probably the one
which saw displayed on the wall Of the en-
sorship museum; and, in any case, it could
hardly have reached its destination. The An.
thorities regarded it, however, with somethin,
like affection, and the envelope was distinctly
the favorite decoration Of that varied art mi.
lery. II was addressed TO
WILLIAM HOHENZOLLERN, Esq,
Potsdam Palace,
Berlin.
II party is absent, please forward to ST. Helen.
II combined collection Of the most vigorous
cartoons Of the Kaiser from several American
newspapers of the Middle West
In addition TO the gigantic work Of the GEN.
sorship department, it may be said that British
munition factories have increased from some
thing inconsiderable to over four thousand.
II Is probably time to say that more NUM-
tions of war of all kinds, from hand grenades
to aeroplanes and from trench mortars 10 biz
guns, are produced in one week now than wer.
produced in the whole first year Of the war.
Wherever one goes in Great Britain today.
from one end to the other, there is only on.
thought and one vast impulse. Britain at last
is modified for war; the achievement today
far surpasses the widest German idea Of
Colossal"
The British pre-war capacity for making
munitions for land Services was adapted to our
army of 100000 men. The French capacity
was for an army of three to four millions. The
number of workpeople now employed on Brit.
ish naval munitions approximately equals the
total at work on French munitions for both
military and naval services. We are supplying
shell steel to France at the rate of half mill.
ion tons year. other steel at hundreds of thou.
sands Of tons year. coal at one and half
million tons a month. The consequences Of the
temporary loss of the French industrial dis
tricts thus fall largely on Great Britain.
The British output of heavy guns and
howitzers for land service is now three to four
times that Of the French The present monthly
figure is 33 per cent in excess Of the total avail.
able for the army in the field before the war.
The British machine gun output Is 20 per cent
and the small arms ammunition output so per
cent in excess Of the French. In addition Eng.
land has sent to France tens of thousands Of
tons of constituents of explosives
1t is the neutrals not our allies, who fire.
quently, without one solitary fact to go upon
ask naTvely: What is England doing?" The
silence in which the work has been accom-
plished was often necessary to its success, and
it never deceived our allies. The offers Of
English help at Verdun were declined by Jofs
for the very grim reasons which are now be-
coming apparent in the great offensive" where
the British in turn are graphing with the
massed forces Of Germany, while with poetic
justice the French broke through. But neu-
trails clamored for headlines, clamored for ali
the farreachng plans of the Allies to be de.
stroyed in order to make a newspaper holiday.
Rational folks, in even these countries, might
well forgive the brusque declaration of a well
known writer-"Damn all neutrals."