The Washington herald., 1918-11-13
YIEI DED RHINE. LANDS HOLD
MUCH OF GERMAN WEALTH
Contain More Than 70 Per Cent of Nations
Mineral Output and IS Per Cent of
Manufacturing Industries.

the Germans in August-December
1914. On September 10 last the First
American army in wiping out the ST
Mihiel salient reached its southern
confines.
During the war the Bassin de Briey
has provided the German armaments
with 50 per cent of their steel. and
, without it, according to the most IA
! nous Dusseldorf Iron masters. the
empire could not have conducted the
war for three months. ~
When the war began France was
obtaining yearly from the Bassin dc
Briey 100000 tons of iron out OF
her total productivity of 22,Ooo,0OO. Oi
Germany's total Of 100000 tons a.
4, U,VJO came from the Bassin de Briey
Since the war began Germany has
mined the French area together witt
| the Luxembourg area (6,000,000 tons an
| nually), giving her a total of 42,oOo.OS
tons to be added to only 100000 tons
which she has obtained outside the
Bassin.
Alsace-Lorraine was forced into
the Empire as an Imperial land. and
received is votes in the Reichstas
out of total of 3s7, Prussia hav'
ing 236 and the other "a states the
balance. In 1911 a constitution wa:
granted 1t, which permitted vote.
in the Federal Council out of 81
Prussia leading with II. The terri
tory has been divided by the Ger
mans into three districts-Oberel'
sass, Unterelsass. and Lothringen
The population in them avera ges pei
square mile 334.3. In the Prussiar
province 1t averages 6S3.4,
Land Yields Richly.
Aside from the mineral product.
of the now recovered provinces
which include annually 3.7s5.s3:
tons of coal, also gypsum and lime
stone, the cotton manufacture of the
region had become the most impor'
tant in Germany; also the yield OF
/ wheat, rye, barley, potatoes, oats
and hay respectively 5000 93,sss
| 100, 900, 1,266,O00, 10000, and 1,13S,'
| 900 metric tons a year, was great
The vineyards in 1917 with a cult
walton of 62,122 acres, yielded ASIA
3lS gallons of wine.
Nearly per cent OF the 4.572.12!
persons employed in the manufac
turing establishments of Prussia be
fore the war. representing 81 pc
I cent OIL tne Empire 3 lOldi clHplOy
ment) worked in this Rhenish Prov
ince. Aix-le-Chapelle (the Prussial
Aachen) was the great seal of tn
woolen manufacturers; Krefeld ant
Elberfeld were Fenters of the sill
industry; Cologne. Dusseldorf, ant
Gorlitz were noted for their car ant
wagon works. There were famou
chemical and pottery works in som
of the smaller towns.
The Rhine crossings which tn
allies are to guard west of the nev
neutral zone beyond the river ar
the purely military crossings at EN-
merich, Wesel Ruhrort, st. Goar
and LudwigshafenMa Mannheim, to
gether with the important CONNER
cisI-also military during the war
crossings of Duisburg, Dusseldorf
J Cologne. the bridge at the univer
sity town at Bonn (here the Kaise
was educa ted). the ferries at Unkel
the railway bridges at Coblenz
! where it lies on the Rhine Mosell
Peninsula; the ferries at st. Goar
shamen, Oberwesel. Loech, and Bin
gen, and from Strassburg the entir
area between the Rhine and Rhin'
Canal where 1t ascends parallel I,
the River Rhine.-From the New
| York Times.