Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 January 1918 — German Industrial Machine Crumbles; Output Way Behind [ARTICLE]

German Industrial Machine Crumbles; Output Way Behind

A Swiss engineer employed for! many years in a great factory atl Madgeburg, has just come fronfl of Germany with a report that Ger-1 man industrial machinery is breakfl ing down at a rapid rate. His report! cabled to Washington, says shortage! of lubricants, rubber and rare metals! necessary to alloy steel is almost! destroying industrial plants and that! lack of grease has reduced the outfl put of German machinery from its! former figure of 80 per cent of its! working force to less than 30 pefl cent. ’ J