South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1919-01-12

CT vii 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
Mary citizens have expressed the view
that Germany got Of very easily that she
should nave 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 IL is believed that those who
like to discuss these exciting topics will
be pleased to nave the facts put before
them in convenient pictorial form
For this purp use a distinguished stats
teal expert has been engaged to estimate
the exact bulk of tie ships. guns and other
articles surrendered by Germany and his
calculations have been turned into picture
FORM
Have you stopped to think that Ger
many gave up 5000 locomotives aud what
that means? That is just the number of
locomotives produced last year by our
great manufacturing companies. and
we are the largest locomOtive-making
country. There was good reason for max
Ing the Germans surrender this number
for that was about the total they flcheC
from the French.
The Germans seized all the locomotives
and rolling stock Of the railways in North
eu 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 were piled into one? Assume that
each locomotive was 20 feet long. u feet
high and s feet inches in width. The
resulting combination of all these locomo-
tives would be 1876 feet long, 2O5 feet
nigh and ia feet wide.
II the 5000 locomotives were placed end
to end they would make line over sixteen
miles long.
The armistice terms also provide that
The Germans shoald give up 10000 rail
way cars. What sort of a giant car would
hat 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 3.1S5 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
II 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 15..
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 10 make himself strong with
The German people by protesting to Presi-
dent Wilson that this provision would
bring famine - millions or Germans.
Food Is. OF course. Of little value unless
IL can be carried TO the centres OF popu-
lation. The loss of 10000 railway cars
may mean that a good many Germans
must 90 without the scsnty supply OF
Frankfurters and sauerkraut and other
delicacies they have been receiving for
the 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 NJ is curious
that people should protest against treat
ment for themselves which they recently
inflicted on others
The armistice provided that the Ger
mans should give up . 600 guns. half OF
them being heavy and half OF then, smaller
held guns. The expert has calculated that
II all these 5000 guns were combined into