New-York tribune., 1917-10-22


in immense quantities TO Germany.
But Germany's chief import was cot
toa, and, thanks to her agents
y Holland, Spain and the Scandina-
visn countries, she managed 10 get
practically all the cotton she needed up
10 1916.
Tried TO Arouse Cotton Growers
After Britain declared cotton contra
band. on October -, 1915, Germany
sent a message to Senator Hoke Smith.
Of Georgia, offering to buy 100000
bales az IS cents, delivered st Bremen.
Then Germany, through her agents,
.ried TO work up an anti-British senti-
ment among the cotton growers, be-
cause Of Great Britsin's refusal TO per-
nit the 100000 bales to go 20 Ger
many.
A government official, when ques-
Toned yesterday about other materi-
ais held for Germany here. said:
ANY estimate would sound ridicu-
Gus, unless backed by an itemized
statemene of the holdings Il would
run into figures which the ordinary
mind would consider absurd. Only
wait until Washington announces the
lgures."
II is said that the stores of war
material of all kinds held by Ameri-
an spectators are being checked up
md may be conAscated by the gov
arnment a. price set in Washing
on.
The steel products held in storage
include she'll steel for which there has
Jeen sn unfllable demand since the
outbreak of war in Europe, which has
= fws4
S in the market for munitions. There
sre also large supplies of steel and
brass rods of which the navy and the
contractors who are supplying it with
hips stand in serious need.
Large Stock of Chemicals Stored
The list Of chemicals stored here for
Germany Is as impressive. There is
lot an element entering into the manu-
,acture OF high explosives that Is not
IN storage in immense quantities.
among other things are tons of coal
gas by-product from which the high
explosive INT is manufactured, Ger
: man agents having taken the preesu-
ION to contract for the entire output
Of many large producers.
The holding Of these immense guam
titles of raw and semi-raw materials
0ff the market has had the effect of
hindering the prosecution Of the war
m two ways-directly. by hampering
manufacturers and departments in
need OF the materials, and indirectly by
adding TO the discomfort among wage
workers through holding up the high
price of many things that they con-
sumo.
The holding up Of thousands Of tons
Of leather. raw hides and finished
called the attention OF high government
officials 10 the immense stocks Of goods
in storage. Inquiries showed that
many departments OF the government
lad in one way or another secured data
-howing the existence of ehese stores
For example, the Department Of Justice
hunting down alien enemies founl
that many of them had been buyinl
Up supplies and putting them where
they would do Germany no harm.
Other Departments Find Goods
In q similar manner the Department
of Labor learned that largr supple
Of manufactured goods were being sen
q storage, though there was large de
mand for them here. The War an
Navy departments in their search 70
materials learned where much neede
brass or steel was held.
The stuff held for the account OF Ger
many has been accumulsting since IN
outbreak Of the war IN Europe. TIL
Germans were quick in tying up sup
plies Of chemicals. IL is thus reporte
that when representa- Of munitiol
makers in the service of the Allie
sought large supplies Of raw msteria
N PENNSYLVANIA, where much of tn
coal tar products used in making ex
olosives are turned out, they found tina
me stuff was not % be had. Germans o
others acting in the interest OF Ger
many having contracted 20 take the en-
IRE supply of the plants.
Much Of this early buying, however
was done by Germans acting on thei
own account to aid the fatherland
l.Ster the buying was organized ant
lirected by Albert from q central bu
resu on lower Broadway, New York
This bureau made use OF the German