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AT THE CREUSOT: WORKS.

TRIUMPH OF FRENCH PATRIOTISM.

LY CHEUSOT.

THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JULY 6TM, 1915,

AFTER THE "ROOSTING HOUR."

war output of the country. There has heen BRITISH AIRMEN'S DARING. no need to discuss the matter with the men it has not been necessary to pave the way for such a drastic upheaval of social condi tions by any Press or platform campaign;: tho men themselves have been the first to recognize the urgency of the hour and the first to approve of all the sacrifices they have been called upon to make.

WORKERS NEW SPIRIT,

On the hills surrounding the valley there pic guns to ward off any very adventurous enemy aircraft, on the terrace in front of the Chatean there are ornamental guns of long ago, the shapes of which are again in

The result has been that at Creusot and at fashion for trench artillery; them are two crossed guns or the belt of the schoolboys Bourgos-throughout the country in fact in the town, there are guns on your glasshere has come into view a new rate of und you tick the ash of your cigarette on to werken. I discussed the question with the a ty decorated with guns, Guns pervade head of one of the shell departments of Lo Creusot who has travelled in industrial the whole atmosphere of Le Creuset.

England art, knows our labouring classes

well. He said :--

The United Press publishes the following article by its correspondent with the British Army Mr. William G. Shepherd:

It's after roosting hour" at night, when everybody is down out of the death filled sky, that you can got the English flying man to do what little talking there is in him. Dinner is the time for chatting with them I sat down at a small table full of them this evening. They were all young fellows out of England's best homes.

VISITORS AT HOTELS. INDIAN AFRICAN LIN

Horazone HOTEL. Mr & Mrs F. X. à

Alomaia e Castro Miss Almada Castro Master & Almada e

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Mr S. B. Lambert Mr.H.D. Law Mr C. Layseon

Mr G. E. Anderson Mr J. B-Enring MB

Murray Bair Mra E. B. Bellios r C. D. J. Bell Mr. F. L. Fissecker The town, which clusters round the

E. P. Borne elge of the smoking valley bed, lives by

Mr G.C Bouman Before the war y men wore their caps guns and the things connected with guns. Wenpins of every imaginable calibre flow jauntily on the side of their head al

Capt 1. Cassel Mi B. Cheetham moiten from the furnaces, fooling the thought it

dignity to behave without

Mrs Cornelinsen and dignity grimy workshops with glowing burning to their superiors. They worked well under no of them I had known in Texas, some

child steel, quiver under the shaping blows of supervision, but without it they were inclined years ago, when Orosco, the Mexican rebel,Mr & Mrs F. E Davis

Mr M. E. Culand giant harners which crash down upon the metal with a deep Ugh of satisfaction, dis- to slack. Although well paid and contented had employed him to dy for the rebel MF Dennis ape down tig vast tempering well dreamed of less work and more pay. To-day since the war began,

there were, of course, many of them who

army; the others had all learned flying Mr W: A. Dowley turn silently round and round upon the finish you can see for yourself their attitude. ing inthes. The manufacture of guns fascinating allair to watch, but it is no longer

the most interesting process of Messrs. Folneider's works at Le Creusot. The French Krupp has not got all his eggs in one basket, as the Germans have at Eason, but has many factories scattered throughout the country

necessary

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every site in every department there was said a young mutext to me not a niun idle. They seemed all to be put- || there every year to play cricket. ting into the work the concentrated energy Philadelphia and Boston and the which a soldier puts behind the lunge of his there play cricket awfully well." bayonet in the charge, and countless impolite people scrawled in chalk upon the walls showed the origin of this energy and the end to which it is directed. It is the desire to win, to beat the bully, that nerves these men

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gun building is at the present moment, sest active. At Le Creusot it is the manufacture of shells which strikes at any rate the British Imagination.

to the terrific daily offort of their livos, and a red band round their arms reminds them that their service is for France.

WOMEN HELTERS.

A REORGANIZED WORKSHOP. Here at Le Creusot you can follow every single process of shell manufacture, from the making of coke and the filling of the

At Le Creusot they work a six-and-u-| farmaces with the coke and our to the polish-half-day week, and the hours range from. ing of the shell ready for cluarging. In normal

10 to 12 a day. There is little or no times of peace the Creuset works do not

excessive "drinking; there is certainly no manufacture shells on any great scale. There the lost from that cause, and timekeeping are huge departments given up to the making and general discipline are perfect. Women of senior plato for the Navy, of als Jocotrave been drawn p largely for labour motives, Bessemer steel, marine engines, and both at Le Creusos and at Bourges, where ther products required by the industry of there is plenty of light work for them peace. To day the Bessemer furnaces are to do in the manufacture and charging ild, the huge rolling and bending machines of shells and cartridges and fuses, They of the armourplate department are lifeless, give to the workshops a note of brightnear and the shops emptied of labour. For at Le and gaiety, almost each having in front Creusot, as throughout France, the motto of of her a jar full of towers. They sing at Business as usual is unknown. Here every their work in some sheds, and their general peaceful activity has been abandoned in

pearance as well as the records of the insour of war, and the services of every tool medical service show that they support a 10- and every man connected with the establish hour day with great comfort. They all seem ent have been directed towards the produc to be inspired by the spirit of the rhyme tion of war inaterial.

which hangs on the walls of the model nur- sory where the orphans of the workpeople are tenderly looked after by the Schneider family:-

In France they have been quick to act upon the knowledge that wars are won in workshops. The figures of the shell produc tion of Creusot now and those of a year ago would prove elequently how splendidly the establishment has responded to the call made apon it. It is idle to imagine that power and a few lathes are all that is required to tarp out projectiles. The shell is a complex and, above all, a very precise piece of mechanism. Before even the process of buishing the raw metal has been accomplished it has passed through many delicate stages and undergone a wonderful variety of tests, for with bud shells you not only get bad shooting, but, what is more serious, you get gun bursts. Thus, after the raw materials have been made into pig iron, the product is placed in the Siemens-Martin furnaces with a capacity of Go tona. In these the carbon of the iron is eliminated and the resulting steel flows down into cradles, from which it is distributed into ingot moulds of varying sizes, according to

the shell under manufacture,

ISTAGES OF MANUFACTURE,

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Allez-

En avant marche, Nom d'un chien,

Qu'on tape

Sur la gueule A ces Alemandis.

INDIA AND THE WAR.

CAPTURING ENEMY TRADE.

I wanted to talk about war-time flying,

to me the young fellow who had come back to the flying field late and for whom I had en the other airmen waiting anxiously as darkness drew on

I gites that must have been me," he said, laughing.

LOST FOR 10 DAYS.

I suppose there are times" --I-maid, when you weib and wait and the fellow doesn't come back?"

"Oh, yes," he said. “That does hap pen. But we don't ever-give-up-bope See that fellow over there," he said, indi cating a young man down the table. "Well, one night he didn't come back. We put out the flares, and waited and waited, but there was not a sign of him. We gave him up for good. Ten days passed, and one day a strange seroplane appeared in the sky, coming from the direction of Eng. land, and we thought this was a new Byer coming to join our camp. The machine alighted, and out stepped our old friend, who had been missing for so many days, and what we had given up for dead.

"Then he told us his story. He had come down in the German lines, and when | he alighted no one was around. He ran away from the place

and finally tached_ After that the rest was easy; he took a boat for England, gat another machine there, and Bow back to

as,"

**ARCHIHALDE.**

"How do the fellows feel about the Ger man shrapnel?" I asked. "I saw 9 battle between two English machines and a German machine at Ypres last Saturday and I don't see how the Englishmen missed getting hit.

"Do you know what the fellows call those white puffy shrapnel clouds ?" asked the flying man, smiling. "They call them Archibalds. No one knows how

the name started, but it's a fixed name, now, with the flying men."

"Can't be very pleasant to have them hanging around you," I suggested.

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ÜLIST HOTEL

Mr. A. W. Pin, Secretary to the Government of the United Provinces, has addressed a letter to the Secretary to the Government of India (Department of Commerce and Industry) from which the following extract is made:On the out- bwak of war the local Government ap pointed a committee to investigate the pos. sibilities of assisting local industries to capture a share of the Gorman and Auss For shells under 30 centimetres the ingotstrian trade and enquiries made show that are passed through the rolling machines one of the most promising openings is to te "Well, it isn't," be yielded. “You're | Mr & Mrs-Allen which, with much groaning and grinding,

really helpless, you know. They're 3in. Mr W. J. Andrew lengthen the ingot out into red-hot rods of found in the glass industry, which is car- steel. These are heaved backwards and for ried on in several parts of these provinces. shells, and they scatter pieces of steel for MrJ. Anker wards through the rollers by steel hands This trade, though still in its infancy, a hundred feet around. Even if one Mr & Mrs Arntzen and which arise from the ground and guide the offers great possibilities, for not only an

doasn't hit you you're likely to fly under metal back through the groves of the rollers, the manufacturers, who have already in

the pieces as they're falling, and puncture Mr & Mrs A. B. Crew.

Mr E. le Then comes a giant circular saw to eat it up dulged in various costly experiments, pos your oil tank, and set fire to the whole bag Mr A. Dunrich into right lengths. In the workshops high seased of capital and quite prepared to of tricks, And the Germans put those Mr A. von Dyke

1 din rises the clear singing sink it in improvements, but they are also little clouds into the sky so nicely, too. The Mr A. W. D. Gibbs above the genem tie at hammer, and fully alive to the unique opportunity offer puffs are always arranged in a regular Mr. Jus chisels at work upon the steel testingendtrined by the present crisis for invading the order. They make me think of white Mr &. Klevjer ming the billet before it goes on to the next extensive markets in which German and paper lanterns hung on a wire. And the Me W. H. Lasney process, which thrusts a red through the core Austrian arms haw hitherte enjoyed a smoke amells terribly, too. I've never Mr G. von Leur and leaves the shell ready for the shaping of

At present the pro- been on the ground when an aeroplane was the nose under the hammers. Then the shell, practical monopoly.

It must be a great sigh kuttered and hammered, heated in furnaces, ducts of the local factories are somewhat bring shot at plunged into cold water, for the first time crude. consisting mainly of low-grade to see it," he added. I'd like to look at resembles the finished product and to the layanip-chimueys, bottles and bangles, and so it from the ground, sometime." eye appears fit for dispatch to the charging long as the manufacturers and their men rooms, where it receives its explosive. But continue to lack an expert knowledge of before this time is reached it takes its place the trade, little or no improvement is t upon the automaties of which the factory be expected.

The committee have, there possesses a goodly battalion, and there under fore, suggested that the best means t a constant shower of cooling oil or soap and assisting the industry is to obtain the ser water its sides are stroked with steel until it vices of experts who will teach the local

the rigorous tests of precision in workinen the correct process of glass blow en pass posed upon it, for the shell has to be accurato ing, the proper use of moulds and the manage, you know, he came down in the Cer- Mr&Mrs C. D Casnili to one-tenth part of a willimetre Then it ner of ascertaining the temperature at man lines and was arrested. He got away Mr G. Clare is varnished and cleaned, bathed in acids, which the molten glass should be poured though, after some weeks, and get Mrs Clivecrans

The Mr & Mrs T D. and finally sent to one of the charging into the moulds. The Lieutenant Governor back into the English lines. stations, the largest of which is at the has approved the suggestion and desires to

German officer who. bad him in Cochrane Government

the Ecole

Mr Consland Arsenal,

wis apply for the recruitment of two Belgian chargó

for stickler 2

míli

CoL Darling E.E. Pyrotechnie, at Borges."

tary courtesy, and so remembered the or English glass experts with a view to

Mr F. A. Hazeland the introduction of an improved and up-to

other day that he hadn't paid his respects Mr & Mrs B. A. Hais date process in the factories of the pro-

to the German, So he sat down and Major Faichine wrote a note, saying that bo regretted Lt. Col. Gordon Hall, The primary qualifications re- vinces.

BAKO. quired are those of skilled doremen with that he hadn't been able to pay his fare practical experience in glass blowing and well respects and begged the German Mr W.. Hansen the manufacture of the simple forms of officer to pardon him. The next day be Mr à. A. Hind hollow glassware, lamp chimneys, turulew over the officer's town and dropped Mrs Howard blers, bottles and the like. The men must | the note, And then, the next cocond, his Mr Humphreys also be able to build direct firing Furnaces engine went wrong and he began to come Mrs T. J. R. Johns and supervise the construction of Breclay down, Just suppose he'd fallowed that Mr Lee Jones pits and annealing ovens, while a know-to down.”

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Miss Lambert

I found that the most popular story in the British air camp had to do with the most daring of General Sir John French's M Fowdler" flying men. It was told me at least six Mr P. R. Batter times by different flyers.

Mr H. A. Cartwright NEOld---," the story goes, "had a close Mr & Mrn Uarmichsel

About two months Mr F. W. Cary call the other day.

At the Ecole de Pyrotechnic the shell is It is there that the final operations Supreme. are gone through, the shell is charged, the fuse manufacture, and the last tests applied. The fuse gives some idea of the complexity of the whole process of shell making. In the automatic rooms machines more than hu- man in their intelligence perform the most delicate dentistry in metals, they cough out nuts and bolts with bewildering noise and speed. The fuse contains 1 to different parts ledge of the ordinary materials required The airmen who told me the story would which are produced by these machines and

in manufacture and some acquaintance always roar with laughter at the thought. assembled by hand. Here at Bourges in vast with the ingredients employed for glass of Just when he'd given up hape, the underground caverns, buttressed with 13- ment and guarded by armour-plate walls, the different colours, is also desirable. Finally sugine started again and he got away. charge is pressel, and inside the charging it is essential that the men should have a Put suppose he'd followed that nose -Exchange, Telegraph Company, green and of yellow, speaking knowledge of English. rocin huge splotches of scars and rent klocks of masonry bear testi proposed that these glass foremen should After in the first instance be engaged on a 3 mony to the danger of the operation. this there are still a number of processes to years' covenant, and in view of the intense be gone through; before the finished shell jealousy of trade secrets prevailing among THE leaves from the railway sidings for the shell this class of operatives all over the world, de pots

there must be a clear understanding that manufacture of shells demands the they have been imported to teach the busi- very highest degree of industrial efficiency, and if the numbers required by the armies in the field are to be supplied it calls for any factory to which the local Government

down.'

FOREIGN POPULATION

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Deas of glass making and its methods fully BIG DECREASE, DUE TO THE WAR. and without reserve to the employees of

may post them,

According to investigations conducted

the mobilization of vast armies of work-

They will be Govern- by the Census Registration Department of men and of huge industrial equipment. Itment servants lent to private factories for the Yokohama Municipal Office, the total demands, in addition, on the part both of capital and of labour, a recognition of the long us may be necessary and cn such number of foreign residents in the city at vital national importance of shell pro-terms as the Government may determine in

The salary offered might suit the end of last year is put at 6.851, of duction and the feeling that both masters each case,

When compared and men are serving their country and the ably be Rs. 300-20-400 per mensem, but whom 3,389 were males. readiness to sacrifice which that feeling brings this is a matter of which the Secretary of with the census taken at the end of the with it. France with the invader on her soil State will clearly be the best judge and preceding year, the figures show a decrease knows but one law to-day--that of national this Government will gladly accept the of 1,702. This is attributed largely to the necessity. Everything gives way to that terms he may be able to secure. I am war, many having left to serve their coun trade union agreements, labour regula accordingly to ask that the Government of have decreased by 382, the French by 48, The British subjects tries at the front. hions, factory legislation, rates of pay India may be pleased to move the SecreRussians by 29, Italians 17, Germans by haye all been suspended if their suspen- tary of State to recruit two qualife glass 121 and Austrians by 85.-apan Gazette. sion has contributed to increasing the blowers on the pay specified above.

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