The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Principal Reason Is the Low Cost Compared With
 Allies Outlay
HAD ONLY TO DEVELOP NEW WAR MATERIALS
Types of Cannon and the Different Projectiles Had Been Carefully and Minutely Worked Out in
 Tranquility of Peace

Paris. June 15.-(Correspondence of the Associated Press.}-On the suppo- sition that Germany would be glad tc call the war draw, Andre Cherdame, an author and journalist, points out some advantages that Germany would gain from such a settlement, the prin- cipal of which is the relative low cost of the war to Germany. up to this time. as compared with the outlay of the entente allies.
 These are six fundamental reasons why Germany has been able, in h1s opinion, to conduct the war with less expenditure than any one of the en tente allies in proportion to the mum Der of men put into the field
 Absence of Improvisation in the Ger man effort
 Salaries well established for the pro duction of armament and munitions,
 Absence of wastage due to the ab sence of improvisation.
 Economical labor.
 Free iron ore and coal from invaded regions.
 Economical transportation by req son of the grouping of the central powers inside the battle lines.
 Germany, he asserts, had only 10 develop with machine tools built on it's own territory it's manufacture of war material that was already considerabl before, the opening of hostilities, in order to produce the enormous series of types of cannon and the different calbres of projectiles that were need ed. All these had been carefully and minutely worked out in the tranquil fty of peace. while, on the other hand, the production of war material was insignificant in France and all most nothing in Great Britain and Russia at the beginning of the strug gle. In all of the entente countries 1t was necessary to improvse, to con ones with new machine tools brought from America at enormous expense and, at the same time, to improvise new types of cannon and projectiles.
 This Improvisation, MT. Cheradame declares, in time of war occasions a great many false steps inevitable wastage of material and an immense increase in general expenses.
 The remarkable extension to a state of war of industrial methods that were highly developed and systematized in time of peace, says Mir Cheradame, enabled Germany to avoid in every branch of construction enormous losses of raw materials of every kind, from which all the entente allies have suffered
 So far as labor is concerned, the Germans have been able to utilize a force of about 100000 prisoners of war. The official report of the inves- tigating commission appointed by the French government and dated April 12 1917, concerning acts committed by the Germans contrary to international law, shows how they utilize this labor In the manufacture of munitions as well as in the construction of defense works. Besides these 100000 prison : CTS of war, the Germans had under their control 7,5oo,00o Belgians, s.O0o,- 900 Frenchmen, 4.5oo,o0O servians, s. 000,000 Rumanians and 22,000,000 Poles in the invaded regions
 To show how they utilize these civil ians in work connected with the war, M Cheradame cites an example of a girl from Lille, 20 years old, who was obliged to work six months during the harvest season digging potatoes or at similar tasks from 6 o'clock in the morning until dusk The amount the Germans paid her for this six months labor was equivalent to less than s2.