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* BRAVE FIREWOMEN- FEAT THAT EARNED PRAISE IN PARLIAMENT..

The Franco-Prussian War proved a capital advertisement for the Krupp pat Posterity will, we believe, have plenty tora and from that time the firm has of evidence which will place the respon-man artillery,

mado practically the whole of the Ger- Time had brought its dibility for the Great War mainly upon revenges, and now Alfred Krupp had two men-Wilhelm II. and Gustav von sions all over Germany, and increased munition factory, whose plucky action in The fire brigade girls of a London things all his own way. He got conces- Bohlen und Halbach, who assumed the his works at a most prodigious. Bane of Krupp on his marriage to rapid mines, amelting works, and Mr. Kellaway in the House of Commons succession the firm acquired extinguishing in fire was referred to by Bertha, oldest daughter of Friedrich binst furnaces all ovor the country; while PAlfred Krupp, in 1902 The Kaiser in its workshops were by no means limited recently, are a fine stalwart set of young.

ahore thun suspect of having business in-engineering-works at Sayn and Duisburg 92, say the Daily Neirs.

to Essien, embracing foundries

and women, and their ages range from 18 to- Tater

steel-works at Annon, armour-plate works at Magdeburg and

There in a popul that if Essen could be bombed

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béen customers.

The

but this is a complete hallucination. It would, of course, cripple the output, but the activities of the concern would only be hampered for a time. They are far

too astute to put all their eggs into one. basket, although we can well believe that the bare iden of their mammoth munition thods and towns, which cover an area f more than five hundred neres, being embed from the air never entered their hends.

Shortly before d' o'clock in the evening the fire broke out in the corner of

day shift, consisting of some 80 giris, was still at work."

for safe

Those in the shod and in its immediato vicinity, both men and women, dropped their tools and run for safety. In a few minutes the structure was enveloped in Bames, and thousands of live eart rulges, packed and waiting transport, exploded as the flames reached them with

noise like continuous machine gun firo. fames alone, sent for the girls of No. 1 The fireman, unable to deal with the section of his brigada who had only been in training some five works,

terests in the Krupp uru. War has been and, the one objective of the concern for a Rheinhausen. long term of years, and there is plenty of evidence that Krupps encouraged air to-day, Krupps would be out of work, shed 200 feet by 60 foot, in which the bellicoso policy in all parts of the earth in which they could make their influence felt--and they were many. It is known, too, beyond all doubt, that loans to foreign countries were conditioned by German financiers on a drawback in the shape of a large order for, Krupp guns and shells. On the memorial un Tiled by the Kriser at Essen on the cele

The association of the business with the bration of its centenary are inscribed the friendship between Alfred and William terman Emperor dates really from the names of fifty-two countries which have, who was mightily enamoured with the nammoth steam-hammers, built greatly in advance of the times, by Alfred, with his unerring foresight, and then far In less than five minutes they had the abend, of suything known in any other loss coupled up and were keeping the country, The personal associations of the firm with the War Lord became, however tire at bay. Miss Kate Shepherd, one of the number, told a Daily News repre nach more intimate when a bosom friendsintativ how she and the other five ship sprang up between the Kaiser. Wilhelm 11: and Alfred's son, Friendrich members of the section went to the rescue. Alfred, and from this time, as we liave during the last few minutes of the bea "I was just doing some crocheb work said, the firm, at any rate, had its path

hour. she said, when the message smoothed by friends at court.

came that we were wanted for a Bro. I threw down my work and we ran across the fields to the shed, about 500 yards from where I work. It was rather frightening, because the cartridges kept but not hurt. un exploding. Severni of us were hit, do, because we had had a fre drill that We knew just whint to afternoon. A trolley on the rails nea away without getting burned the shed was an fire, and I pulled it

red

The men who were watching for us to come up laughed and said we should run away when we saw the flames, but we soon showed them we weren't afraid." It was decided in February that the placed by girls. men of the fire brigade should be re- transport workers promptly volunteered, Forty of the femals and have been drilling twice weekly ever since They are very keen on the work, which is entirely voluntary,

not

Un the eve of the Great War, Kruppe, with their enormous commitments, having completed, or almost completed, the pro- gramme of the German Navy, were threatened with being, so to speak, out of work. The two Balkan wars bad sur feited quite a group of customers, and the world at large was wearied of strife and longed for peace. Cannot we figure Born in 1854, Friendrich was five years to ourselves, with some shadow of truth older than Wiliam II, but there is no behind the conceit, Krupp i und the Kaiser, partners both in a business which doubt whatever that the two men became flourished-upon the destruction of man antiuence that Krupps were enabled to close friends. It was due to the Kaiser's kind, coming to the conclusion that the become the owners of the great Germania day has dawned and the hour had struck shipyard at Kiel (of which for some years when Essen required in order that it they had only been lessees), and so wero should pile up blood-money beyond come to take the lead in every department putation, and win for them bath count- less wealth that the world should rare is no shadow of doubt that the of construction for the German Navy with blood! At any rate, whether whole naval programme of Germany was the conceit rests upon actual truth cut and dried between Krupp and the only apon intelligent conjecture, this is exactly what they have done, and every dreams became realities. It was "eanny," Kaiser long before the latter's naval mann, as the adage goes, is supposed to intend the consequence of his own acts..

no doubt, for the precious, pair to get ready in advance for "sharing the swag" The story of Krupps is one of the great in their first attack upon the wealth of romances of business. In its origins the the Empire, and so provide against that firm was inoffensive enough, Friedrich very rainy day when the bubble at Krupp, the founder, seems to have been feit macht shall be burst once and for & harmless and praiseworthy engineer, all. Anyway, the extensions of the Cler capable and industrious. Beginning with maula yard were made on a prodigious one small forge in 1810, be built up a scale, and at an outlay which nothing business in great culties He made have justified.

and always but a forecast based on certainty could struggling against

Its area was increased made a very considerable pother in the some reputation by his steel dies, which nearly fourfold until it extended over Reichstag in 1912-13, when be proved. were used at the Dusseldorf Mint, but some seventy acres, and "ways

ways" and that by bribing officers and officials. he left behind him at his death little but slips were prepared at enormous cost debis, and the formula for making owing to the immense cxcavations secrets, Two directors of the firm and a Krupps had obtained access to official crucible stce!! It is not clear whether quired, amounting to many million tons few others served as scapegoats, who bore. he found the formula trimself or whether the Grm was soon in a position to under the sins of those who ant in the seats of it was the invention of others. There was take the construction of the heaviest the a lawsuit about it, which lasted for seven Dreadnoughts from stem to stern, armoire mighty. They were tried, convicted. years, and Krupp must be given the plates being provided from Essen or about, and got off with

putting up any defence worth talking credit, as he won the day. He tried to Magdeburg, and guns, munitions, and punishment. Liebknecht, who has shown very light get the help of the German Government shells forthcoming with marvellous ex such amazing independence in the Reichs- in conducting further experiments, but actitude to schedule. this was refused; and he died, as we have

tag during the war, came in for the said, in poverty in 1826, in

Krupps, too, were quite ready to take payment of the real penalty in prisen humble cot- #

In tage, which still stands at Essen, near on shipbuilding orders for other coun-and in the fiting-line.

All was grist that came to their is risky work fighting the Germany it the palace in which now holds sway tries.

Krupps' policy is the exact counterpart Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach mill, and they built ironclads and sub- the husband of his great-granddaughter marines of sorts for all and sundry, Mr. of that of the other masters of Germany. Bertha.

M'Kenna electrified the House of Com Their activities have been world-wide Alfred, Friedrich's eldest son (who was mons in 1909 by declaring that he had Spain boasts one mine at Bilbao, in the only a boy of fourteen at his father's Precise information that Krupps were Basque Provinces, which is of real im

Realising prepared to supply all the parts of eight portance.

this, Krupps death), carried on the business in his ironclads a year, and unless the drain equired an interest, if not the actual mother's name, mainly with family help upon their resources for armament and control. The whole story of their in- and by his personal industry, in spite of munitionment has paralysed their activiterests abroad has yet to be told. Sinc repeated refusals from the German Gov- tius in that cemented plate which to the beginning of the war we have had ernment to facilitate his experiments and

long held the held, their capacity must revelations and to spare of their“ under- plans, he won through. There are abun have orainously increased in the nine ground work in the metal world. dant and readily accessible records of years which have elapsed since this esti Nickel is, as everybody knows, an essen the technical details of the developments mate was made.

tial alloy of steel in gun-making and whereby be inaugurated cast wheel- centres, and cast ingots which, weighed The growth of German naval construc-dour plate, and the Société des Mines. Nickeliferes, although ostensibly French, at first one hundred and fifty pounds or tion is no secret, and need not be detalled. and, so, and then four hundred pounds, but Some of the dates are, however, interest-

in New Caledonia, where there are famous nickel mines, has turned out figures which seeni small enough when we development of the KPP concern to be entirely a Krupp concern know that the firm to day, which stands When the Germania yard was leased in 1806 two millions were added to the naval

got a monopoly in which is indispensable for able of turning out an ingot weighing

armour-plate, and essential to some ninety tons, but were looked upon forgotten all about the arrest of the the production

Krupps' cemented. 33 astounding at the time. For years his Bundesruth on a charge of carrying on. The monazite eands of Travancore, teo, business was harmless enough. He traband in the South African War. This from which thortum, uranium, and other developed, for instance, the manufacture was, however, the excuse which enabled rare metals are extracted, had also passeri of machine tools of all sorts, down to roll- the German Emperor to procure the con by actual concession into Krupp owner. sets for the jewellery trade, and cast sent of the Reichstag in 1900 to the

ship. As the story goes, the sand was steel ingots in bulk, and so on. It was, extended Naval Defence Act, which pro-shipped

Germany at £4. initially, more from the force of circum vided for the outlay of seventy-four milton, while so much, as was passed on to stances than of deliberate choice as the lion pounds on naval construction, and British manufacturers was invoiced at country was already developing that mili twenty million poun's on dockyards #36!

Much

of

base metal tary madness and moral atrophy which | Krupps, as a tontter of course, skimmed industry of Australia, too, as We Frederick the Great bad practised and the cream of this gigantic enetrprise, and, all know, had got into German hands, left as a legacy to his descendants-that buying the Germania yard outright, em the London middlemen being merely go- Krupp should become the Cannon King barked upon those gigantic extensions betweens. Even after the declaration of The secret of crucible steel was inevitably which we have already mentioned. Five war, the British Government found itself destined to revolutionise ordnance, and years later the firm had little difficulty actually buying lead, zine, copper, and it was from Krupp's first three-pounder, in obtaining a loan of two and a half manganese from German firms which hack built in 1847, that the mighty monsters million pounds from the Reichstag for been astutely camouflaged. It is small of to-day date their origin. With their the enlargement of the Essen Works

wonder that the Australian Government forty-two-centimetro howitzer, the first

by 1851 had reached a couple of tons,ing, since they tally curiously with the Pr, therefore, enjoying extraordinary

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anualling * contracts, ed their zenith of his daughter, Bertha, and at once float-

The Krupp exhibit at the Great Exed the business as a company, with a right royal promptitude and thorough hibition of 1851 of a solid flawless ingot capital of nine million pounds or 60, assess. It may have been late as a precau- of cast-steel, two tons in weight, stagger sociating himself, of course, through lion, but it was effectual. It is, however, ed London, and, indeed, the world, Dominees, with the business as well as fervently to be hoped that not all the although the biggest gun shown by the with the family. It is no secret that he Facists will put their "German friends"?"

he fabby sentimentality of Socialists and firm was only a six pounder after all

Arranged "?" Bertha's marriage in 1906 |

they

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to Baron Gustav. It was rather a jump in possession again. We have a big battle and looked at by modern eyes, does not from the German diplomatic service in to fight before we can wrest all the Taurels seem to have amounted to anything worth China, America, and Italy, to be the head from German metallurgists, headed as bragging about. The bonour and glory of this mighty concern; but the Kaiser's

are by Krupps. The firm is now winning of this triumph was the turning point in estimate of the man has certainly been laurels in a new field of activity. It a the fortunes of the firm Alfred now, borne out by results, and although we bearing a hand in the machinations at last, got orders for ingots from the must remember that Imperial influence no Prussian Government, out of which six doubt, proved us effcalcus as business whereby Germany is seeking to undermine pounders were forged at the Spanden

world outside of the alliance of the Cen- Works, the beginning of the German field apaoity in advancing his fortunes, the the integrity of every country in the artillery. This was followed by order bead of Krupps has established a record Empires. It has established a from the Khedive of Egypt for still big. for ruthless capacity. ger guns, twelve-pounders and twenty, an one occasion ground for complain Press, in

The competitors of Krupps had on more four-pounders, and the die was cast

K

gigantic advertising burean which is aim ing at the subjugation of the whole Swiss

double sense

* Italian Press, and has locked.

From this tims ing of the excellent, information the firm influenced the Italiane way as it Krupps

was able to obtain of any rival tenders resinyed to capture the French Press back, and the 14- simus entered into an orgy of rivalry in and estimates; for Krupps made the most Krupps, of course as newspaper pro- artaments, The Age of Steel had begun

Belgium and Russia followed the example than one occasigu

that one consignalringed the rules game. It is, indeed, not to be wondreed of Egypt, and ordered field-guns and which govern the international commer at that they should so far have proved heavy guns. Other firms developed on cial code, which is very rigid in enfore themselves more than a match for all the similar lines, and Italy gave an order ing fair-play, and does not brook my Allies put together in this campaign of

for fresh artillery including a one-hunting which comes within the limits of chicanory. dred-ton gun (which was built by Arm sharp practice strongs); while everybody remembers the

Herr Liebknecht, who is now paying en eighty ton Woolwich Infant manu- the penalty for his courage in crossing factured by the game firm. Bo big steel the path of the real masters of Germany, Fordnance arrived, and iron and bronie

gans became only curios.

(Continued at foot of nees Column)

Obrions parallels present themselves be- the rise of Germany and that of Krupps

The destinies of the country and the firm are interwoven, and if Ger manj Falls, Krupps and Kruppim fali with it-Chamber a Journað,“