The Washington times., 1918-12-15

Piers of the Brooklyn Brit
TT will be useful and instructive to many
Americans to see visualized before
= them on paper the actual amount of
property that Germany surrendered under
the peace armistice.
Many citizens have expressed the view
that Germany got on very easily that she
should have been hammered until she sur
rendered Internationally, and that her
cities should have been devastated like
those Of France and Belgium. 1t is not the
purpose of this article to combat those
views, but it is believed that those who
like to discuss these exciting topics will
be pleased to have the facts put before
them in convenient pictorial form.
For this purpose distinguished Stats
teal expert has been engaged to estimate
the exact bulk of the ships, guns and other
articles surrendered by Germany and his
fluctuations have been turned into picture
orm
Have you stopped to think that Ger
nat means? That is Just the number of
ocomotives produced last year by our
-eat manufacturing companies, and
.e are the largest misunderstanding
country. There was good reason for max
ing the Germans surrender this number,
for that was about the total they flched
from the French.
The Germans seized all the locomotives
and rolling stock Of the railways in North
en France. They represented the ac-
cumulations of many years by the French
railroads. The Germans used them until
they were worn out or shot to pieces.
How big would all those locomotives be
If they we're piled into one? Assume that
each locomotive was 10 feet long, ~ feet
high and feet s inches in width. The
resulting combination of all these locomo-
tives would be 1,196 feet long, 205 feet
high and ia feet wide
If the 5000 locomotives were placed end
to end they would make line over sixteen
miles long
The armistice terms also provide that
the Germans should give up 10000 rail
way cars. What sort of a giant car would
that make? The average European rail-
way car measures sixty feet long. twelve
feet high and six feet eight inches in
diameter. The resulting giant railway car
would be 3,185 feet long, 63S feet high
and 354 feet wide
That car would carry the whole sky
scraper section of New York from the
Municipal Building to a point below Wall
street
If the 10000 cars were placed end
to end, instead of being made into one big
one, they would stretch along 1O7 miles
of track.
Those 10000 cars could contain IT,
100000 tons of food Now perhaps we
can understand why the German repre-
sentatives, even though they were hope
lessly beaten, murmured against some Of
the terms as being impossibly severe.
Old DR.. Solf. the new Minister of Foreign
Affairs, tried to make himself strong with
the German people by protesting to Presi
dent Wilson that this provision would
bring famine to millions Of Germans
Food is, of course, of little value unless
It can be carried to the centres OF popu.
Iation. The loss of 10000 railway cars
may mean that a good many Germans
must go without the scanty supply of
2 ankrurters and sauerkraut and other
icacies they have been receiving for
81" past four years.
But the Germans had no mercy on the
other countries when they attacked them
by surprise. The Allies are still suffering
severe food shortage on account of the
shipping and railroad equipment taken or
destroyed by the Germans. Il is curious
that people should protest against treat.
ment for themselves which they recently
inflicted on others.
The armistice provided that the Ger
n gns should give up 5000 guns, half of
L EN- being heavy and half of them smaller
held guns. The expert has calculated that
if all these 5000 guns were combined into
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