The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-16
10000 WORKERS
ADDED TO KRUPP
MUNITION WORKS
Makes Total of 10000 Gun and
Shell Makers.
Skilled WOrkmen From Front
to Work in Plant.
KAISER ENLkRGES WAR SCOPE
Declares He Will Halt Ameri-
can MunitiOn Shipments.
10000 Women Making NUM-
tiOns in Krupp Plant.
KAISER ENLARGES WAR SCOPE
Declares He Will Halt Amer1-
can Munition Shipments.

Essen, Germany, Oct. 16.-Twenty
thousand new workers will this week
Join the force of 10000 already en-
ployed 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 of Ger
many's renewed effort to win the war
is taken under the direction of Field
Marshal Won Hindenburg, new chief
of staff. Many skilled workmen are
being recalled from the front to aid in
speeding up the production of war
supplies and barracks are being built
here to house them.
From conversations with Krupp di-
rectors with August Thyssen, the
Carnegie of Germany" and other in
dustrial leaders three facts became APP
parent regarding the German cam
paign.
Enlarge War Campaign.
First, Germany plans to maintain
her supremacy in the artillery branch
of warfare by increasing the supply of
guns and ammunition.
Second, by renewed submarine eff
forts she plans to stop contraband 60
ing to England from neutral European
countries, to halt ammunition ship
menIS from America TO EnSldIlQ anu
to stop Canadian transports from
carrying troops to Europe
Third, by an offensive against Rus
STA and Rumania, while maintaining
an iron wall defensive in the west, she
plans to bring England between the
jaws of Hindenburg's military wise and
pinch her until she makes peace.
Krupp's may be said to be getting
second wind. Industries thruout the
entire Rhine and Ruhr 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 making.
Smoke Protection Against Air Raids.
Essen now feels so secure against
| possible air raids that the anti-aircraft
! guns have been removed. Defense of
the city was found unnecessary be-
| cause the smoke rising from a hun
| derd thousand chimneys night and day
forms a thick cloud over the entire
| Rhine and Ruhr valleys, making it
impossible for aeroplanes to distin-
| guish between DuiSberg, Melhelm and
Essen tho miles separate the cities
! In the latest allied air raid, three chill
dren were killed and the roof knocked
| off house near Essen, but the Krupp
works escaped damage.
The Krupp factories are so enor-
nous and the machinery SO great that
women workers, numbering 10000
and dressed in overallS boomers add
a touch of fairyland.
The plants are growing like mus1-
rooms. Some idea of their size may
Re gathered from the fact that in one
store yard a million shells are kept
always on hand and this number is
being steadily increased. In the CEN
ter of the plant is a large target range
where shells and cannon are tested be-
| fore being sent to the front In this
great plant, science studies every les
son of sea battles and of artillery duels
and works out the details.
LOO Men Making Big Guns.
In one building LOO men were
working on only big guns. In another
building smaller guns We're being
drilled. In still aEother thirty-seven
4 ton pieces of armor plate were being
before their final marine inspection
and shipment to Kiel.
We were the guests of Director Won
! Bodenhausen, who has visited the
steel works both in Pittsburg and
Gary, Ind, and has met Judge Gary
and other American steel officials.
Bodenhausen said he saw no chances
for peace now, but he echoed the
views of some other industrial leaders
ammunition shipments to Europe the
war would end. Bodenhausen con-
tradicted David Lloyd Georges state
ment that England did not complain
when the war went against her. Just
the reverse is true, he said. Regard
less Of whether Germany pursues a
vigorous submarine warfare during
the coming months, he is convinced
that Englands food situation will be
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