Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1919-01-21
ERUpP BkNNRUF ICY
EX 'EC7EO BY EU,CPE
Was Reared bv War, Has Been
Ruined by War; Kaiser
Was Partner.

FarlN bankruptcy ~ the great krIpp
munitions works NJ Essen Germany
after mcrc than . century of success, +
Expects! bv European Observers With
thc downfall of the great death plant
VII ~ part of the cN-kalsCr = tCT'UnC,
large investments hy thu lu0kcr class,
thc cniIr,, wealth ~ many small investors
aid the vocation of mauv thousands oi
workers. many of other than German
nationality
Tins Inllwark Of Pr1lsSanisrn, rs such.
was bonn of war and dies hv war bear
irr out The Old Biblical saying about
sw ri bearers Tor almost nc-tlurd ~
lts ifc krupp's met success IN CONNER
ciM steel making for i was not until
1917 that Il first began tho manufacture
n munitions Tic great plant was
founded ia the smallest Kind NJ waA ln
lSl5I. Friedrich krupp ard the brothers.
kc,hcl, attempting thCn to take soFac
oi Britain monopoly at the steel business
On the Continent
Ouarrels soon drove out tho Kcchc's,
and Friedrich worked en- until 1926
whom H. died The widow kr4pp con
tlpuad tho hllsiuc4,s undcr great hauGi-
cans hut Altrcd second .n the Inc ol
kr,ipp early IN life showed the kccncst
business Judgment branchcd or every
where proftably and III iSi7 manufac-
tl.rcd his hrs. gun ior tho I'rusalan mill
tsrl machine
Success followed success, Egypt fur
nishinr the nrSt of . series uf foreign
or,icrs Tor munitions and Prussia TAX,
inc advantage of the experiments made
NJ the expense of other Powers krupp'
future was assured by Prussia S successes
In the wars OF 1864 1866 and lS70-1S71.
All due to the improved guns turned out
bv the growing krupp works.
The entire rcarrning Of the GerTnan
army WINS one of Emperor William 5
fr,t steps after the peace Of Versailles.
and krupp's profltcd hugely thereby.
Alfred krupp died II lSS7 and hs
SON Friedrich Alfred, who took up the
husincss. only survived him for p years.
Again tie Krupp works passed 10 q
woman s control THOUGH Bertha actual
management was mere pertunctory rs
the wears went on and the imperial III
vCstmcI.ts grew
When The present William decided
In 1895. that ne Germans should have
a real navy 'even if eventually it didn't
! frht krupD's branched ont IN naval
/ construction and their great shipbluldinE
4 ward al Kiel was second only to the
4 qtlr fo,Indries at Essen. Great nava
! guns still were built in the interior, ard
! after the great war began ever j-Doats
I were constructed there and carried piece
rneal IL The seabo4rd for assembling and
1 launching
JUS before the war the capital stock
va increased a. NOR, than 500 600 600.
I though that did not represent anything
like The real Investment Profits eX-
cccdlng so 600, 900 were reported the
hrst year Of the war despite heavy
take and enforced subscriptions TO the
/ early German war loans
~e-caiIcd German efficiency IS won
/ dduI'y cXcmplIEcd ~ the krupp works
Not only did it own its own coal and
| IRON MINES, but il ran. OF controlled 8
cham Of newspapers that exploited the
might is right propaganda and ever
/ Lad Is own members in the Reichstag
! Government subsidiS were voted freely
] he stockholders were men Of Importance
In the g)vernmcnt: even the work on
/ from other lands were used to boost The
I glory of their product
! Probably no one institution. # one ex-
ccpts the HohenzollenI family, did S.
I much 10 lead Germany p its foredoomed
i struggle 10 conquer the world
Ar with the collapse q that effort
necessarily collapsls this juogernalt cr.
Aanization and the doom q nilitarisH
assures the doom of krIpp's