The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1917-01-18
THE WORLD WONDER
Some Startling Facts and Figures.
Great Britain's Ordnance Base.
Germany on 80 Per Cent Basis.

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/ the spectacle Great Britain presents
today. 4 commercial nation Of less
than 50,000.000 people suddenly sum
moned 70 arms where no arms existed
and in less than 80 months she has a
bigger army than history ever before
recorded and war machine in Europe
that FOR wealth or shell, explosives and
war power is the amazement Of the
Germans, who had taken ten times
thirty months to prepare for the at
tack.
But this is only the beginning Of
wonders.
Both Air and Sea Command
Without an English aeropane en-
gine that could circle her own Island,
She has vanquished the boasted Zop-
pelins and is mistress of her own
skies. With submarines by the hun
dred, threatening her coast defences,
her food supplies, and her commerce,
she has swept all oceans, locked the
vaunted German fleet in harbor, con-
voyed shipments Of gold across the
ocean in safety-loads Of gold that in
former times would have paralyzed
na,ional financial marketS-made the
English channel her multiple track
ocean railway to Europe with no loss
by Zeppelin or submarine; fought in
Africa, at the canal, at the Dardan-
elles; grappled with the Turk and the
Bulgar; changed generals and admir-
ais in command; changed cabinets; fed
the armies of France; given arms to
Russia; maintained the armies and the
governments of Belgium and Serbia
and altogether advanced to her war
allies three thousand million dollars or
three times the national debt of the
United States.
Still Supplying the World
While the United States has been
trying to find out how to build military
rifles in quantities and has untitled
orders for them representing hundreds
of millions of dollars, England has
!, been turning out rifles by the million
, for herself and her allies, cannon by
the thousand, boots and coats by the
, Ilnilion for herself and her allies, and
wonder of wonders, she has done all
this, is doing it, is yet to do more, and
, has now her manufacturing, her trade
, re ations and her overseas commerce
, unimpaired. Yet she has grabbed the
! trade of the world, so that her enemies
, arc struggling on half rations; then
, eood, rubber and metal supplies from
, the outside world practically cut OIL
except as new territory is taken.
, This is gigantic physical power
) and trade and war power combined
, never before dreamed of. 1t puts in
. the shade all that the world previously
, knew of Great Britain's financial pow
, er. Nobody dreamed two years ago
, that the war cost to Great Britain was
, to be beyond five or six billions. 1t is
, today three times that sum and Great
Britain is prepared to double it again
, But stupendous, and even beyond all
, previous estimates, as is this financial
! power, the physical and metal powe,
, manifested by Great Britain is the
! marvel Of marvels.
! The British Lion was regarded by
Germany as a money bag of trade and
/ whelp of the seas. Great Britain's
J ability to put 10 per cent Of her popu-
: lation under arms, to feed and equir
: her allies and at the same time tc
! maintain her credit and commerce
! throughout the world was something
. never dreamed Of within or without
: her empire before this war.
Uncounted Wealth and Unmeasnred
: Spirit
. No economist ever counted th'
wealth in credit, gold reserves and SC
curities power that Is now showing
forth in the British empire. No stu
dent Of men and nations ever picture,
forth war spirit Of the British people
that could be so reused in rightcou.
cause. No student Of religion g
social order ever gauged the spirit q
self-sacrifce that is now lighting tn
path Of the nation in war.
: This is the peoples war. 1t is th'
+ war Of the democracy that has bull
the British empire around the globe
d II Is not war Of kings, lords ol
i mobiles. It il a war in defence Of al
the civilization, peace and honor ioI
which England has stood and 10 whic'
r she hes made progress for more thar
hundred years.
The Prussians could measurab
measure the wealth Of England, conn
her population ard take toll Of he'
guns, big and little. They numbered
her military men, her business mcr
c and her idle and leisure classes; an
outside Of her navy, her wealth an'
G her trade she was By a Prussian NIL