Central Powers

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 68, 17 October 1916, Page 6

Central Powers

KRUPPS AND THE WAR. 2000 ADDITIONAL WORKMEN. PRESSING NEED OF ARTILLERY. ANTI-AMERICAN RESENTMENT. Press Association—Copyright, Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. * (Received 42J3. pJP-.), New York, - "OctobiDr 16. The fact that the Allies are surpassing the German in the construction of artillery.,is indicated by a Union Press despatclV from Essen, which states that skilled workmen are being recalled from the trenches to reinforce the factory hands, 2000 additional workers being added this Mveek to the normal force of 7000 employed by Krupps at Essen. General Hindenburg s directing the employment of these extra artil-lery-makers, the suggestion being that he. feels the pressing need of more big guns than Germany has hitherto been able to supply. ! The United Press correspondent says that the anti-aircraft guns have been dismounted at Essen because the dense smoke ascending from the factories forms a cloud over the Rhine and Ruhr rivers, making it impossible'for the airmen, ,tp. distinguish Essen from the snr'roiuiding towns. Much resentment is being shown at the supply, of American munitions to All ■*ji:'i l I"* -ii l the Allies. Director 'von Bodenhausen who. is T m , control at the Essen Work's, declared "that if the United States would not ship ammunition to Europe, the war would - end. :.;