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ALLIES NEED 7,000,0(10 MEN SAYS AMERICA SHOULD SUPPLY THAT MANY. HcCumber, of North Dakota, Says England Bearing Brunt.?Millions of Americans Needed. Washington, Jan. 16.?Senator McCumber, of North Dakota, today gave the senate a gloomy picture of the position of the United States and allies in emDhasizing his plea for radical speeding up of the ship building programme. He declared England was now bearing the brunt of the war and asked, "how long can she stand this strain?" The United States must send 5,000,000 troops to balance the man power of the central empires, he said, and 7,000,000 would be needed to make the Germans retreat. Tension is Great. "Russia and Roumania are out of the war," asserted Senator McCumber. "Italy is losing ground. France is unable to make any headway. The wall of opposition at the eastern < end of the battle line in continental Europe is crumbling. Who can say how long Italy can or will withstand the Teutonic pressure, upumisuc indeed must be the man who will say a single year without additional support. With Italy under the heel 01 the conqueror, with France assailed. in the flank, who can prophesy that that country will not quickly be brought under the heel of the same conqueror and England's army left to battle against overwhelming numbers. This is delineating two things: First, the exact situation as it now is, ani, second, the possibilities of the future, and it is presented with the hope that we will at least partially awaken to a realization of what is before us." Boastjng Will Not Win. k , Senator McCumber said the idea that pointing out our weaknesses discouraged the American people and encouraged the enemy was a mistaken one and declared that "we must now learn that lesson that boasting will not win this war." He said he was tired of hearing the argument 'V j that Germany would be reduced to ^ \ ^submission by starvation and stated that the central powers control three times as much territory in Europe v~" 'j'r as does the allies. The balance of j: ^resources held by this country, he said, should not be considered until there was tonnage to carry men and products across the seas. 7,000,000 Men Needed. ggjV-'*" ."The entente powers have about reacnea iueir utmu, uc oam. *v balance the man power of the central powers this country would have to send 5,000,000 men," and argued that another million was necessary to overbalance the geographical advantage of the centraT nations and another million if the United States and her allies wished to be the aggressor, in other words, 7,000,000 to make the Germans retreat. When the United States entered the war the allies cried "give, us ships," declared Senator McCumber. *iWe allayed their fears; we assured them we would supply that shipping. We took that duty upon ourselves, the most important, the most vital duty encumbent upon us in this war. , And we have neglected that duty bef \ ^ yond any other, shamefully neglected it." Underestimate U-Boats. ^ "They tell us it was because of the wranglings and disagreements in \ the shipping board," he declared, and added that he believed there was lack of appreciation of the submarine menace in the board and that >*** AiA Knlinvo onv momhor cn vV U1U ?V?t. unpatriotic as to delay ship building while the personal differences were , being settled. He declared "we appointed a Kilkenny shipping board and then went to sleep," and later in his address he said: r . We know we must supply Great : Britain and France and Italy. We know we shall require 5,000,000 men in France before we can ever j hope to equalize the forces of the i powers pitted against each other. ; Where is our shipping? Where is it coming from? Possibly God knows, certainly neither the shipping board nor the navy department knows." Send Food First. Senator McCumber recommended that the United States stop sending soldiers to France now and use all available tonnage for food for the allies, simulate efforts to attempt to produce a ship immune to torpedo attack, and to make full and adequate test of reinforced concrete vessels. He said he believed the allies would emerge from the war after securing the peace laid down by President Wilson, but was equally "certain that unless we come to the support of our allies wTith shipping facilities many times greater than we propose, some of our allies will fall before we can take their place on the battlefield." SHIP BUILDING IN CHARLESTON. Charleston to Complete $20,000,000 Wortli of Ships in Ten Months. Charleston, Jan. 3?Charleston has a contract to build sixteen 7500ton steel ships for the government, at a net cost of $20,000,000, within the next 10 months. This is the biggest thing in the shipbuilding line that appears on the South Carolian seaport's horizon at this time. The Southern Shipbuilding Corporation, operating under the Whittelsev T->?for?+o ie, th? rnnrprn which has ^ Ci V/ V tO y AO V** w - ?? - obtained this- contract from the government, and its engineers have already begun work at Charleston on the site for the plant. Inasmuch as the Southern Shipbuilding Corporation is said to have a contract of which time is the essence, with penalties for delay, it is belived locally that the work of actual construction will be commenced just as soon as the company finds it possible. The largest private plant in Charleston at this time is that of Valk & Murdock company, which is already equipped to build and repair vessels up to 1500 tons, but which now has under construction a floating drydock which will be the largest commercial drydock on the South Atlantic coast and will accommodate nearly anything in the coastwise trade. Satisfactory progress is being made on this drydock at the company's yards on Cooper river. The plans include constructing basin 450x100 feet in overall dimensions, capable of handling vessels of 7500 tons or more. The dock will be of wood and steel constructed in sections to permit making the dock shorter or longer.. The dock sides will measure 43 feet )to permit the entrance of vessels drawing 22 feet of water. Vessels 500 feet long with 80-foot beam will be accommodated. In addition to its other activities, the Valk & Murdock company has under construction a large order of ship's boilers. Shipbuilding has been in progess steadily at the Charleston Navy-yard for a considerable time, with important results, but needless to say, no details of this work can be given at this time. Charleston is looking forward very eagerly to the coming of. the Southern Shipbuilding Corporation, which announced that it will employ ?>+ Inoct man in fVio hocrinnlrp CL L icao b U V V V JLUVIA iU vu-v and probably as high as 7000 later on, and that it will establish itself on permanent basis for work after the war as well as now. The Southern Shipbuilding Corporation expects to get its fabricated parts from the Birmingham district.?The Manufacturers Record. IN SIBERIA. The Bright Spot a Chlid in Exile Made. "Children in the exile districts seem grotesquely misplaced, yet there were many," writes Fortier Jones, in the Century. "Sometimes the gendarmes' magic would lift a father from his too liberal fireside in Russia, and set him down without the humiliation of a trial in the glorious Narym solitude. Not infrequently his family followed him in order to share the new life, for as elsewhere, fathers are loved in Russia. Particularly among educated men the continual, unrelieved loneliness tended to bring on insanity. I knew one fine business man, a millionaire of Kieff, and a direct descendent of Rouget de Lisle, whose little daughter came into exile with him to save him from this dreaded loneliness. She was fourteen years old, and they lived in a dreary vil lage by the great river, in a log cabin with pink chintz curtains and a piano. She was a winning little thing, with happy, brown eyes and long curls, and to all appearances was no whit worse for her exile existence. The fascinating life of the forest was familiar to her, the birds and flowers, and her father cared for her French and history. What a bright spot she was in that wretched place, and what a curious life for a little girl whose illustrious forefather had composed the 'Marseillaise!' 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