The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-07-26

1n a. pFeVIOuS aruCio 5uPPioAACheS0 other impressions made upon the wri- 1 tor. who lately had the opportunity of hastily studying at British war cen Gers some phases of the British war effort. Rightly or wrongly. one was left convinced that a nation which
 could spin strength out of nothingness tnasuch a manner could not be beaten.
 2 Z Hfsss.R Rivertown'a was a sample of what
 has been done, starting from zero.
 Some of the other, places visited by, the writer gave evidence of w'the
 existing. industrial machine has been extended during the past two and
 half years under the pressure of
 great necessity. The. industrial ma chine has behaved like some species of insect-k has split itself into two each of which has become as big as its original. Where one blade of grass grew formerly, let there be two,' is the first commandnent nowadays to the farmer. and if he is as successful in this as. the industrialist has been in setting, up two workshops and two machines where formerly there was but one, he will do well. sag ,. :
 That was green field a year ago.,
 was the casual remark to the writer as he passed huge substantial build ing covering cares. and roaring. with the noise of machinery in a great Brt- tish shipyard. It was a remark fre- quently repeated f.a.y..is-,
 The troubles on the Clyde must have retoiced fhe heart of the German Ad- sniralty., for they have no delusions as to. what the Clyde means to the sea power of Britain. Tn a short trip up flris river, on the way to one of the great sffipbuilding establishments which have made mercantile Britain great, the writer saw on both banks signs of Britain's great effort on the sea. The slips on the Clyde are not | placed at right angles to the river. If they twere.Stthe vessels launched would simply bring their noses in the opposite bank and the history of the Clyde would be the history of series of shipbuilding mishaps. So narrow is t3ais river, which Scottish determine ffon AiId easy access to raw materials Have made one of the great shipbui1d- 1Hk centers of the world; that the ships M It's banks are placed at, such an
 tkle that they often seem to be al- H|bst parallel to the river itself. Thus = Wly built ships have practically the 4Srxth of the river and not merely 3{< breadth to launch themselves upon.
 From the deck of his launch it ap- peared that the whole river from short distance below the, Broomielaw onyvards was maze of slips. ss Both hanks were an almost unbroken forest nf steel and iron. There were slips with cruisers, slips with torpedo boats, 6lips with detroyers slips with stand ardized merchantmen and slips with unstandardized merchantmen, row, up- on row of them strecthing down the Clyde. From both banks came the unceasing noise, of the shipyard. the clattering of hammer on iron, the rat ff1ng oft the riveting machiTes. Here and there the fashioning of some spe- ciaI weapon of war was disereetly hid- den from the gaze behind curtains of corrugate diron. Here and there slips appeared to be empty but in every case this meant that a ship had late ly taken to the water and almost as it slipped out on the bosom of the river the keel of another ship had been laid down. The river itself was crowd < Cd with shipping. great vessels lying n every dock or anchored outside in the river. V Everywhere were to De geeIi merchantmen of all nationalfties W0lCn naQ DTdVcQ L10 0dAE CBS OA LAiS S1ibmarine and put. in to load ;or un- Bad, for repainting or repairs. 0cca, S5onally one might see German mer- chantnnan captured, on the high seas fn the early. days of the war From the Broomielaw onwards the whole river seemed to throb and hum witt the intensity Of the effort 1t was mak- ing Here as in, few other places ons ; @~1< %tnF uvNo1u v,u finr, WA @pra o
 bling with the foe. s- ~
 The writer was conducted over on' Of tue greatest of British shipbuiidini yards As many as 50 ships were il pfocess of construction. battle cruisers destroyers and at least two submar
 izes, one apparently twice the size Q the other. From this yard a grea battleship of the latest type had beer launched only few days before. Il taking to- the narrow waters of tn
 Clyde it had proved slightly reffactor- and temperamental but eventually had been got safely down stream t
 the open sea-, where it had to talk
 its part in commanding the. surfac
 of the sea and in meeting the menac t under the surface. But even battle N nhfps do not constitute this famou firms entire contribution to the wal Not very long ago it. undertook tn building. of aerop1anes and set up fo
 this purpose an entirely new depart
 ment- Already itTturns out many full
 completed aeropIanes per week. an
 It's total<is growing with experience.
 This firm has always been a grea
 maker of armor plate, but today il
 scope lhas so extended 4hats there 1
 practically4 no weapon, of war that
 does not produce in large quantitie To9ay'it builds all types and sizes (
 guns. They stand in rows in the shed
 with, in the case of some, the quair
 Josepli's coat~of many scoIors, whic
 is intended to merge them in the sui X rounding color scheme at the froI
 and so conceal them more completel from the prying eyes of German ail
 men. builds. tanks. and one depar
 meilt all by itself is building a weapc
 which will. only be ready some tin
 next year, but which, if the war las
 50 long, is intended to. teach the Ge mans salutary lesson which the
 may learn in no other way. YPracticall
 this yard is the British war industl
 in little, for scarcely a phase of WI
 outrut is represented in it.. It is fo
 tunate thing that the firm bougl their land on this part of the riv