Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-12-30 | Page 8 | Miscellany

Miscellany Krupp Works Farther Inland. More than chance brings at once the report of a German retreat west of the Lys In Belgium and that of the German plan to establish new Krupp works at Munich, in Bavaria. At Essen old Friedrich Krupp bought his forge in 1810. There the great steel 1 plants rose and they they have since re-1 re-1 mained, making Germany's great grins. : But it Is surprising that Prussian far-i far-i sightedness did not long since appreciate the danger of their exposed position and remove them to a point of greater safety. Kssen is well to the western extreme of the empire, a position almost as dangerous dan-gerous as our own munition plants in southern Connecticut. Hardly fifteen miles behind the Rhine, it is only a little more than 150 miles and 200 miles, respectively, re-spectively, from Verdun and Arras in an air line. And "air line" is more than a phrase today. Far safer from attack by earth or sky is Munich, roughly halfway between Strasbourg and Vienna, just north of the foothills of the Alps. Munich, too, is the chief citv of Bavaria, and Bavaria, second sec-ond largest state of the empire, is by temperament and tradition the least Prussian, the most independent and susceptible sus-ceptible to detachment from Berlin. Recent indications were that Bavaria had a friendly eye for Austria's separate peace overtures. To offset Austrian influence, in-fluence, zl3 well as to take precaution against the approach to Essen of ailied ba.es for air raids, may well be the shrewd Prussian motive. Boston Globe-