The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915. TEUTON EFFRONTERY.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 33, 7 October 1915, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1915. TEUTON EFFRONTERY.

5 ,T" tije course of a very interesting article! in the Scientific ' ’ American', Germany's byproeriky in condemning A meriju Jor manufacturing munitions (>l./waj- td 'tlie V.rdeT'pf tlie Allies’ 1 is ohly^exposedi 1 BdtlV ‘Germany 'aini’ Austria.' 1 the waiter' points but',' have ■supplied' tlie World with its, instruments of slaughter for a score of ■ yea rs. I V)fli in aiid out of times of war.' nor was any line'drawn as to the state pl things' so long as the money was 1 sale on delivery of cargo. The huge' .Mauser and Mannlicher factories in Germany and Austria, and tlie Krupp 11 works in Germany hnilt up their fortunes on tlie quarrels ol other nations. I util the great war, there had not been a battlefield .of any importance in twenty years across which Gernianinade or Austrian-made rifles did not hurl their bullets—which, too, probably came from the same source. Tlie j British in South Africa faced German-) . made bullets after the Boer supply ol Kynoch ammunition ran out; this ammunition was sold to the Boer j agents, and smuggled into South Africa months after the war started. The Russians fired Krnpp-made fi*eld guns at tin l Japanese in the war ini Manchuria, and the ammunition for both field guns and rifles came from Germany, Half tlie bullets fired in 1 Mexico during the past four or live years have been German bullets. The rifles of the Regulars of Diaz came from Germany, or from Belgium under German patents. The wide range of German-made instruments of slaughter over the world before tin* outbreak of the present war is astonishing. Even the_ Tinted States of America uses a modified Gentian Manser, made by royalty arrangement of 1 dole 15 cents, pm- rifle, paid to tlie Ger-J mans fit- that country. Spain: German -Mauser. 7 millimeters. , Portugal: Austrian Mannlicher, 0.5 ibillimeters. Greece: Austrian M nmlicher. 0.5 millimeters.! Italy; 0,5 .Mannlicher. modified in Italy. Servia ; 8-iiiillimeter German Manser. Sweden: 0.5-milll-metor German Mauser, made under royalty arrangement paid to the Gormans. Bulgaria: Austrian Mamilicher. Turks: 0..‘50-caliber German Manser. made in Germany and furnished, with its ammunition, to the Turks all during the Balkan war. German-made ammunition has been used in the last fifteen years by the Turks. The new British service rifle, a modified German Mauser, is made in England. Argentina, Chile. Brazil, and practically all other South and Central American countries use the German Mauser , and German ammunition. For colossal effrontery the Germans stand nnI: V.-.Hl'd.