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Show enormous dry docks that by electric pump can be emptied within one and a half hours. There Mr. Leyland could also Inspect the new flagship Westfalen, the second of the Gerniau Dreadnoughts. Bv .special permission of Vice-Admiral Pobl he was een allowed al-lowed to vl3U the submerged torpedo rooms. He comes to the conclusion: "After much experience of the ships of other nations, 1 am able to say that the uew German Dreadnoughts are masterpieces of design." Then Mr. Leyland visited Kiel, another an-other naval center, where the imperial imper-ial shipbuilding ard, the Gcrmania yard belonging to the Krupp firm and the llowaldt establishment claimed his attention. The Gcrmania yard has four great buibling sliyw, lass covered, cov-ered, and provided with overhead electric cranes and all facilities for rapid work. One opeclilty here Is the building of submerslbles fitted with detachable telephones and hoisting hoist-ing shackles. In the llowaldt worka Mr. Leyland saw the building of sectional floating dock with a lifting capacity of 40,000 tons. He intends to continue his journey of Information Informa-tion to Bremen and Schlchau But al ready at Kiel he exclaimed: "German completeness sees to all this. The ships and docks are built together." Continental Correspondence. THE REAL ARSENAL OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE. The old tradition of the Ensen firm to organize all its enterprises on the. largest plan, and to concern every-thing every-thing grandly, "always seekinK something some-thing better than tho heat " ivi h. traced back io the very "Stammhaus ' Of Frederick Krupp, Ever since tho works amalgamated by, the Grupp company com-pany w ore enabled by "the large orders they received from abroad to produce armor plate, cannons and other wares that required the very best mnreilal In largo quantities and of relhble quality Germany co ild ahvavs get a', the shortest notice whatever she wanted want-ed for military purposed. It is for this reason that Mr. leyland calls the Krupp works "the real arsenal of tho German empire." There were hundreds hun-dreds of guns and gun tubs hoing made for the German and many foieign governments, scores of twelve-Inch twelve-Inch guns In an stages of completion, comple-tion, some for co.xst defense purpotes. but the majority for ships now In course of construction or contemplated, contemplat-ed, "it is difficult to estimate a point at which tho capacity of the Krupp workn for ordnance production would be exhausted." Whit lvns to the Krupp KU3 thelr quality is bv the Fnglish writer traced back to the ui-most ui-most homogeneity, close-grain and extraordinary ex-traordinary elasticity of the steel poured pour-ed from the hundreds of closed cruc'-blea cruc'-blea into ingot molds, while other manufacturers have to relv on the wire-wound principle. Mr " Leyland saw a block of crucible gun steel weighing eighty-five tons. At Wllhelnibhaven, where now tho first high sea aquadron has Its headquarters, head-quarters, the third entrance has been completed giving accoss to ahlps or any existing s'zo, and leading to three |
