Show GUN WORKS I i f GIANT HUN i M NITI N iiI I PlA PLANT T I S Id IdI I l Essen Factory in Flames for 24 Hours Work of 1 Men en Is Halted I Great Blow to Kaiser ji By A Press prel MA ESTR Holland De Dec r 22 To British Admiralty by Wireless Pr Press Pre 4 Workmen from Essen ny t I the Krupp plant tilE tho great Gorman Ocr Gor man munitions establishment has baa been ablaze for tor twenty four hours i The plant at Essen the main esI es esI establishment es- es es- es I of ot the Krupps Kruppa the larest largest larg larg- est eat manufacturers In Germany of ot otI I arms and munitions employed about men before the tho war It tt has I I I been expanded greatly during th th the 1 I war Facts lacta relating to Its present size an and the th v number of workmen are kept secret by the German Gennan govern govern- i mont ment I It was 88 reported re In La I October of ot ln la last t year ear that about I persons ons including several thousand women work Wd at work there rc and that I OOOO were t be added to the force torce Early Carly this year ear there th YaM wan w a 1 strike e I at the Krupp Krupl works said laId to have havo been due to lack of food tood It IL was VaK reported that workers were Involved involved In- In t and that the authorities combated corn com it I bated it by sending many of the incato men inca mento J JI to the front but little authentic in information information In- In I formation was waa l permitted to come out 8 of Germany 1 n Essen sen is in IU Prussia Prula about bout j I tort forty miles from the lIle Dutch border I Few cw places In Germany aro are guarded more carefully No persons un unknown unknown un- un 1 I known to the German authorities RI are aret permitted to vit the town |