The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1917-05-03

had more 3f that than of any other
soft metal chat would make satisfac-
tory iacke,S for bullets.
All one ]afternoon We wandered
through acres of plant where they
were turning out those brass powder
cases and those copper jacketed bul-
lets for the Turks. There We're 12,-
900 hands employed in that plant,
OF whom 5000 were women. We saw
women working on machines, and
even doing lathe work. We saw
them handling shells ls-projectiles--
in many s3ages. and in all stages for
shells up 30 six inches in size. And
they werelfw orking on powder cases
up to sizeS even larger. The draw
ing, or rolling. of these powder ca
ses was done by men, but many of
the men tending machines had wo-
men helpers. 1t was at this plant
that one ~ our guides told me they
We're using 10000 tons of brass
month intmaking powder cases. |
never waSs quite sure whether he
really hoItd ! would believe that or
not.
And Chen there were the guns.
One plantsswe saw which is part of
the great tsKrupp establishment. The
head of i9 had been drafted TO Ber
lin for sefyice as Chief of the Tech
nical Staff in General~Groener's or
ganizatiol.@ of the War Office. He
vas at th5aworks himself to show US
through. Ehen l replied to his ques-
ton that 81 did nor speak German
SutficientH well TO converse with
him, he Said. Well, then, | must
speak English l haven't done that
for more dhan two years. and | was
thinking should not do it again.
But | have sent them some memen-
toes which some of them will keep.
We masched through twelve or
fourteen I1ilometers OF gun factory
that morning, going most OF the
time at almost double time. And
everywhegg we say guns-guns in all
stages of construction, from the cast
ing box to the finished product just
hitched u, to be taken to the proving
ground for trial before delivery to
the arnlys These were all small
guns, fvtsinch howitzers being the
largest IL calibre Besides there
were hundreds of the ordinary small
guns of ;sbout three inch calibre for
the field artillery.
Naturally we asked questions at
least l I'D And out of the whole
number of them | got answers to
some of those that interested me
most l was told, for instance, that
the gun production of that plant
employing about half of it's force of
IA 600 lands on gun work--was !
about twelve finished guns per day
something less than hundred guns ,
week. was told also that that |
plant constituted about per cent. of |
the total Krupp establishmment-or !
that its production did. The great |
Essen warl1s, of Krupp, which are |
devoted wholly to the production or /
guns of all sizes and of munitions, |
employ, 4 was told, $4,000 hands,
and the total Krupp production of
the small guns we saw in the MAX
ing was a5out 1 600 a week. More
over. it Mas said that this Krupp |
was about one-third of
the totai production of Germany, for
there ara several other great plants
besides Ale Kfupp works. So that
on the l1oIe the estimate for the
weekly kFodnction of guns was be-
tween snt and $500, Which
Z, fs,r nation /
which another American correspon
dent in Berlin had obtained from en-
tirely different sources.
They certainly seemed to be do
ing their best at Madgeburg to COM
ply with the Hindenburg order for
"all the guns and munitions possi-j
Bile to make"