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Show i co REVOLUTIONIZING BRITISH WARFARE. No one man has done more to sustain sus-tain the British army In the field than Lloyd-George, minister of munitions. The titanic task this man undertook and tho degree of success he achieved is related by Isaac F. Maroosson, who visited the English munition factories in Septomber. Lloyd-Georgo has organized or-ganized 750 factories and is now turning turn-ing out shells and guns at a rate more than equal to the demands of tho fighting forces. One of the first signs of the increase In munitions was the ability of tho British to make their great drive in September, in which they overwhelmed the enemy with a storm of sheila that continued during an entire week, Marcosson dwells on tho inventions board organized by Lloyd-George, declaring de-claring that after more than a year of war one of tho principal lessons learned Is tho vast importance of invention. in-vention. At tho outset, creative industry in-dustry was lost sight of In the swift rush to pour out the supply of old and time honored weapons. , "Only aerial warfare received any particular attention, and this development devel-opment was concentrated, so far as tho Allies were concerned, in Franco. The superiority of Germany in this respect," says Marcosson, "finally awakened England to the need of an I aviation reserve through individual in- itiativec There wore various other I provocations, including tho powerful H Austrian howitzers that pounded their 1 way through Belgium and the deadly German submarines which had revolu- tlonized naval warfare. Realizing all I this, Lloyd-George has created an in- ventions branch that has brought to I its council table tho very flower of 1 England's scientific and industrial- re-j re-j search. It includes such men as Sir I Robert Hadfiold, one of the greatest 1 of Sheffield steel masters, whose In- vestlgations in the chemistry of steel I havo made him a world figure; Sir I Hiram Maxim, Inventor of the auto-I auto-I matic system of firearms; Sir1 Joseph 1 John Thomson, the eminent physicist; I Professor J. S. Haldane, who investi-1 investi-1 gated gas poisoning at the front and I brought about a prevention of its fa-1 fa-1 tal effects; Sir Alexander Kennedy, the famous engineering expert; F. W. I Lanchester, the aeronautical authority I and motor engineer, and a score of I other men equally well known, who 1 have dedicated Vtheir lives to practical I research. The chief function of this I board is to consider all inventions I that bear on war. That the inventive I genius of England is stimulated under this pressure is evidenced by the fact that since the first of this year more I than 1,000 -patents relating to material for war use have been applied Tor, as I against 400 for the corresponding period of last year. Guns and pro-I pro-I jectiles lead, with trenches a close second. Aeroplanes and airships J come third, with periscopes fourth. J Bombs, hand grenades." and catapults I come next, while, curiously enough, I submarines trajl last in the roster of. I invention;" |