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War materiel may also, with reference to the question of supply, 
further he classified in two great divisions, viz.- 
1. That which is required for purely military purposes. 
2. That which appertains to naval warfare, and the service of ships. 
Arsenals. 
The manufacture of war materiel is usually carried on in establish¬ 
ments called arsenals, and these latter have been defined by competent 
authorities to consist of three classes. 
Class. —First-class arsenals are those which, in addition to pro¬ 
viding for its repair and storage, are also charged with the manufacture 
of war materiel in the first instance. 
Ind Class. —Second-class arsenals are those in which large stores of 
war materiel are kept, together with the necessary workshops for the 
repair of all warlike stores with which they may have to deal, and such 
facilities of expansion as may enable them, in case of necessity, even to 
carry on their manufacture to a limited extent. 
3 rci Class .—Third-class arsenals are employed for the purposes of 
storage and distribution alone, and are in fact mere depots of supply. 
It is, therefore, with the two first of the above-mentioned classes that 
we shall principally have to deal in the following pages. 
The chief points which have to be considered in the selection of a 
locality wherein to seat the manufactures of war materiel of a state, are 
briefly as follows :— 
1. Strategical considerations. 
2. The presence of the raw material on the spot, or in its immediate 
vicinity. 
3. Facilities for its manufacture into the finished state. 
4. Ample means of distribution to the consumers. 
Of the above, the first is no doubt the most essential and important, 
and may be considered as the discussion of the question of the manufac¬ 
ture of war materiel from a purely military point of view. The three 
latter points, on the other hand, may be considered to represent the 
exigencies of the question from an entirely civil stand-point. From this 
latter, we must regard the manufacture of war materiel in much the 
same light as any ordinary operation of trade, and as being equally 
governed by the same, or similar, laws of supply and demand. We 
therefore propose discussing the subject of this essay under the above 
different heads, premising by observing that, although we may not suc¬ 
ceed in uniting all the above conditions in one spot, yet we may so 
succeed in combining several of them at different points as to counter¬ 
balance, or even exceed, the much vaunted advantages of unity and 
concentration. 
