KRUPP WORKS AT HIGH PRESSURE

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 2905, 18 October 1916, Page 5

KRUPP WORKS AT HIGH PRESSURE

INTENSE RIVALRY IN MUNITIONS OUTPUT ALLIES AHEAD IN THE RACE Australian-New Zealand Cable Association. New York, October 16. Tho fact that the Allies are surpassing the Germans in the construction of artillery is indicated in o United Press dispatch from Essen, where skilled workmen are being recalled from tho trenches to reinforce the factory hands. Two thousand additional workers were being added this week to tho normal forco of 7000 employed at Krupp's and Essen. Von Hindenhurg is directing the employment of these as extra artillery makers, tiho suggestion heirig that he feels the pressing need for more big guns than Germany has hitherto been able to supply. The United Press correspondent says that the anti-aircraft guns have heeu dismounted at Essen, because the dense smoke ascending from the factories forms a cloud over the Rhine and Ruhr Rivers, making it impossible for airmen to distinguish Essen from the surrounding towns. Much resentment is shown at tho supply of American munitions to the Allies. Director/von Bodenhausen, in control of the Essen works, declared that if the United States would not ship am munition to Europe I the war would end.