HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Clinton News Record, 1921-9-8, Page 7RIOTING iN BELFAST STRUTS:
DEATE ROLt, TAS AT FOURTEEN
Strongholds of MAtionaliets, Shin Freheers and Orangenlon
Standirio Aloof -More Troops Reoned to Quell
Disturb ances.
A deepateb from Belfast saget---The earlY 1led on General Carter-Cansp-
tleath roll in the Ilelfest street AMA -bell, 'commander of the British troops
ow starele et fourteen, The military in Ulster, oldiere to quell the
are cordoning off the disturbed areai4 elating, urging' the need of protection
for the eity'e Citizens, ane his demand
was granted.
During the diner hour. a heavy
downpour of rain ]rove, the eontend-
'mg factions from the streets. Police
in a "birdcage" lorry immediately be-
gan shepherding durlosity eciekers'
front the danger points, From that
time on the sniping died clown. Some
apprehension Was felt as to what
might haepee when.. the shipyard
workers Tetuneci home from thelr
work in the evening, this being deem-
ed the most critical time of the day.
If that period should pass off with-
out untoward incident, it was ;believed
t'he rioting could be considered at an
end.
Diming the morning sniping was
carried on M full view of the people
in the 'windows along Royal Avenue..
It was here a milkman and a little boy
centre, are of mixedpolitioal views were wounded by shots from Kent
and constant bickering is the result. Street, which rune from Royal Avenue
This boiled up on Monday. A fortunate to Carrick Hill, a 'Sinn Fein strong-
circurnStonce is that Falls Road, the hold, A passing traan-car was utilized
stronghold of the Nationalists mid as a shield by a Section of a ceowd
Sinn Feiners, and Sandy Row, Shank- in the line of fire, but the two were
hill and Ballyneecarrett, where struck by- bullets,
Orangeism predominates, are standing A court martial sitting at Galway
aloof, sent two members of the black`and
As the day progressed, the police Tan forces in Irelend to ten years at
patrols increased their effectiveness penal s.ervitude. They were convicted;
and succeeded in. getting better con- of raiding a house at Salt Hill ands
trol of the warring elernencs. compelling two students to walk bare -
Sir William Coates, the LortiMayor, foot over broken bottles.
but the situation romaine extremely
dengeroule
The Ulster Cabinet bold a owner -
once with the police and civic author-
ities and aro revisit -losing Additional
troops.
Gunmen were again active in the
OM Lodge district, They opened a
heavy fire in the direction eV Shank -
hill Road, a thickly populated Pro-
testant quarter. A. youeg man was
killed and four were seriously worind-
ed in this fighting.
Worketen were attacked on the way
home in West Belfast; the police were
• obliged to fire on the at ring fore,
which were dispersed.
The present trouble had its origin in
the Warren and side streets lying be-
tween West Street and North Queen
Streets. The residents of those streets
and Old Lodge Road, another steem
SEVEN SEATS VACANT
IN THE COMMONS
Another Federal Riding Loses
Representative by Death
of E. B. Devlin.
Sinn Fein Must teeide.
De Valera has rejected the terms
offered by England, and tbe reply of
Lloyd George comes with dramatic
quickness. Whethee this will be the
last word of England depends upon
Sinn Fein.
A despatch from Ottawa cayse-The
There is little of the ultimatum
death of Emmanuel B. Devlin, Liberal •
about the Lloyd George reply, but it
member of Pe/element for Wright
stands as one of the strong etatements
County, Quebec, brings the number of
the exchange between Crown. and
vaocineies in the House of Commons
Si Foie. It reiterates the English
up 01, seven, roue Beate 0 Ontatio --ne
all of which wore formerly represent -II stand that Ireland cannot be permitted
1 to withdraw from the empiee. 10
ed by supporters of the Covermeente
;meets the Irish claim for independence
mweer. yore, Leeds
ere vacant, na
ely, head-on. Lloyd George reiterates the
and Brockville, Durham, Victoria and Ereelish'offer, insists that it does meet
Haliburton, Two in Quebec are unel
Trish demands, warns that the truce
represented -St. Antoine Division of
Montreal formerly h , may end and reminds De Valera that
held 1.y the Gov-,
ernment. und Wright Collide. Tee' hereJec"dig the "na',
Peace °IT&
that no English Government dare ex -
seventh vacancy is in Maple Creek,'
Seekatchewan, formerly reptesent-!coed in liberality.
The 'very quickness of the English
ed by Hen, J. A. Maharg, en Agrarian,.
roply argues that England has made
now a Member of the Saskatchewan'
• her final concession. No time was
Government. taken in conferences and considera-
e Mons. Sinn Fein and De Valera can
sews sOl flYsesRed Rash. hardly fail to note that feet.
-Sweet. De Valera has made his restatement
of the stand for complete Irish separa-
i Sank years ago a writer on ware tion. The reply of Lloyd George is a
and war causes said in substance that restatement of the higher lights of
in 4,000 years of recorded historXethe Englishstand.. and something
there had been no mere than 4,000 more. It is aimed not orgy at De
days when peace had been unbroken Valera and Sinn Fein, but at all Ire -
in all parts of the world. The old land, and at all the empire, at world
globe is rarely free of the Red Rash. opinion, and particularly at American
On the eve of the Disarmament Coe- opinion. .
ference we are enjoying a period °f That reminder of his that Ireland
comparative world peace, but it ie under the dominion status will be
only comparative. We ate dreading freer than the States of the American
the "next war," while a dozen wars, Union will be impressive in the United
little and big, are running their States. His quotation from the first
course. inaugural address •of Abraham Lin-
, There is fighting in China between coln, 'bearing upon the physical near -
the North and 'South; nor are these nese and indivisibility of the American
mimic battles. Spain and Riffian North and South, and applying the
tribesmen are looked in death grips Lincoln argument tc' the geographical
along the Moroccan seacoast. British situation of England and Ireland, ap-
forces and tribesmen are battling in peals to Am:teem-is who know any-
Inkalisud along the northwest Indian thing of the Civil War problems and
frontier; - I (rangers,
In Asia Minor, Greek and Turk are The references to the demands and
continuing the immemorial views of the older school of Irish lead -
that have always raged between East era must have weight in an Ireland
and West in this cockpit of the Near that is persuaded to peace. As only
East. Here is a war of first-class the Sinn Fein, the Anglophobe and the
dimensions and over first-rate issues.' German elements regard England as
There is a truce in Ireland now; but a "militarist" nation of the Prussian
a few weeks ago Erin was a place of sort, the English Premier does well
bloody ambushes and gunfire in nar- to ignore the De Valera insinuations
row streets. It may be so agaite of "militarism" and the implication
Upper Silesia is reasonably quiet now; that England would deal with Ireland
no men knows for how long. as Germany would deal with Belgium.
There is continual fighting in East- Ireland knows better and the world
ern Siberia, where old boundary lines knows better.
have dissolved and a half a continent On the surfaeo the exchange of
is drearily fighting undor the banner notes leaves the situation deadlocked
of first one half -bandit and then an- as it was a week ago. But so long as
other. In a store of places in what the truce holds, so long es there is a
used to be Russia little ware ere liar- suggestion that the lust word has not
ing up, dyinrdown mid lighting t1 been said, the hope of peace will live
againin spite of the unbending attitude of
The New World is eonsparatively England the the hardly weakened
quiet, Costa Rica and Panama have stand of Sinn Fein.
settled their little difficulty, but there But rejection and reply, restatement
is a "state of war" in parts of Nicer- and argument can .hardly go on in -
ague. definitely. "We cermet prolong a
The world is not free from the Red mere exchange of notes," is Lloyd
Rash, It may never be immune en- George's reminder.
tirely; but the Disarmament Confer- Sinn Fein mush make its decision.
once may help in building tip a high It has been told over and over again
degree of immunization against the that Ireland ean have freedom, but
disease, within the Commonwealth. Sinn Fein
has come to the crossroads. It must
The first trip on the new. Parie-too make its decision for war or for peace,
Warsaw air service took ten hours, as
compered with sixty hours for the To be happy, one should. always
journey by train. have sotnething beyond one's eeaeh.
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LORD BYNG OPENS THE CANADIAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION
His Excellency is liege seen presenting the colors of all Toronto regi-
ments atter they were dedicated by Canon Scott, The colors will be de-
posited in Westminster Abhey.
Average Human Life
Longer by Four Years
A despatch from Columbus
says: -The average life of man
has been lengthened four years
in the last quarter century, de-
spite the crime wave, war, auto-
mobile and other hazards.
"Within another .generation
the allotted threescore years and
ten will be a thing of the past,"
Dr. George W. Hoagland said,
basing his claims on mortality
statistics of the American In-
surance Union, of which he is
secretary.
"Improvements brought about,
in sanitation, the nationwide
anti -spitting fight and other
steps have contributed toward
man's longevity," Dr. Hoagland
said. "Severe epidemics of ty-
phoid and malaria which former-
ly took such a huge toll of life,
no longer.are known."
GERMANY PAYS
BILLION GOLD MARKS
Amount Due the Allies on
August 31st Fully Paid.
A despatch from Berlin rays: -An-
nouncement is made by Otto von Glaz-
napp, vice-presidept of tbe Reiehs-
bank, that Germany has paid a billion
gold marks due to the Allies on Aug.
31. He added that the Reichsbank
had been obliged to take 68,000,000
marks in gold dollars and other for-
eign monies from its gold reserves,
which are now on the way to New
York.
A despatch from New York says: -
The German Government through its
fiscal agents in the United 'States, has
anticipated further reparations obli-
gations to the allies.
According to well-informed banking
interests representing the Berlin Gov-
ernment, these payments, which are
variously estimated at 65,000,000 to
$100,000,000, have already been de-
posited with the agents of the British,
French. and Belgian Governments in
this city.
Purchases of United States dollar
exchange to effect this transection
were eoncludecl several weeks ago, it
wee stated. This probably accounts
for the recent stability of internation-
al remittances at this centre and the
marked strength of Dutch and Scan-
dinavian rates.
Those countries, it is understood,
were the markets through which Ger-
many acquired the greater portion of
the United States exchange necessary
to the completion of the payments
maturing at the present time.
Strawberries as a ship's cargo are
considered dangerous, owing to the
strong fumes given off by the fruit
causing dizziness and a form of in-
eceication,
ONTARIO. TOWNS
MAKE GREAT STRIDES
Census Returns Show In-
crease in Population in Past
Ten Years.
A despatch from Ottawa says: -An
increase of 95.28 per cent. in the popu-
lation of Orillia, Ont., in the last ten
years, is shown by bulletin number
three covering the preliminary an-
nouncement of population just issued
by the Dominion statistician. The
population of Orillia now stands at
13,334, as compered with 6,828 in
1911, when the last Dominion census
was taken The bulletin issued covers,
25 cities and towns in eastern and
western Canada. Although Orillia
shoWs the largest percentage increase
of places covered in the bulletin, Sault
Ste. Marie is a close second with a
percentage increase of 93.26 in the
last ten years, end a population to -day
of 21,228. •
The Dominion Statistician announc-
es that the count is subject to correc-
tion. Adjustments on account of
closed houses and absentees have yet
to be made. Anyone who thinks that
he or she has been omitted from the
census is requested to notify the bur-
eau of statistics,
Ontario returns issued are as fol-
lows':
1921. 1911. Inc.
Eastview .. 5,327 8,169 2,158
Barrie6,992 6,420 572
Sault Ste. Marie 21,228 10,984 10,224
Smiths Fans .. 10,594 6,370 4,179
Sarnia 14,637 9,947 4,690
Ingersoll 5,118 4,763 355
Hawkesbury 5,632 4,400 1,132
Pembroke .. ..,7,873 5,626 2,247
Midland 6,984 4,663 2,321
Orillia 13,334 6,828 6,606
His Majesty Pleased
With -Irish Response
A despatch from London says:
-King George has sent a mes-
sage to the Archbishop of Can-
terbury on the Irish situation.
The 'message said:
"Let us thank God that some
measure ofresponse has been
vouchsafed to my appeal to my
Irish people. With a full heart
let us pray that their reconcilia-
tion may be consummated by the
deliberations now proceeding,
and that they may be united,
making a new era or their na-
tive land."
Alcohol in Mother's Milk.
The discovery has been made by
a physiologist that the milk of in-
ebriate mothers contains a small
amount of alcohol, and 10 18 his belief
that such mothers communicate to
their offspring a desire for stimulants,
San Marino, the midget republic, is
to double the size of its army, which
in future will consist of six soldiers.
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The history of the Spanish zone of Morocco has beets e'a constant war-
fare waged on the whole with considerable success, against' the Moorish
• tribesmen, together with very slow penetration and organization of the
country by the colonists,"
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BURDEN
The Leading Markets.
Toroute.
Manitoba wheat -NO, 1 Northam,
44,68%; No. 2 Norther», 41:4,,' No,
3 Northern, $1,5'T%; No, 4 'weenie
Manitoba oats -No. 2 CW, 480fie;
No, 3 OW, 471/ee; extra No, 1 feed,
47%0; No. 1 feece 46%e; No, 2 toed,
4531e.
Manitoba berley-No, 6 CW, 77e.
No, 4 GW, 74%c; rejected, 69%e; feed:
69%c.
All above he sem at Vorii
American corn -No, 2 yellow, 67e,
c,i,f, Bay ports,
Ontario oats -No, 2 white, 40 to 42e.
Ontario Wheat -No. 2 Winter, car
lots, el.18 to $1.22; No, 3 Winter, '$1.15
to $1,20; No, 1 cominoreiel, $L10 to
1..15; No. 2 Spring, $1,18 to $1,18;
o, 8 Spring, $1,10 to $1.15; No, 2
goose wheat, nominal.
Peas -No. 2, nominal. •
Barley -Malting, 69 to 72c, stowed,.
ing to freights outside,
Buckwheat -No. 2, nominal.
Rye -No. 2, $1.00.
Manitoba flour -First pats., $10,50;
second pats., $10, 'Toronto.
Ontario flour -$6,26, old crop,
Millfeed-Dei,, Montreal freight,
bags included: Bran, per ton, $28;
shorts, per ton, $30; good feed flour,
$1.70 to $1.85.
Baled Hay -Track, Toronto per ton,
No, 1, $23; No. 2, $22; mixed, $18.
Cheese -New, large, 24c; twins,
24%c; triplets'26c. Old, large, 31 to
32e; twine, 82 to 33c; triplets, 32% to
3331c• Stiltons, new, 25 to 27e.
Butter -Fresh dairy, choice, 88 to
35e; treaanery, prints, fres'h, No, 1, 42
to 48e; cooking, 23 to 25e.
Dresse,de Poultry -Spring chickens,
40e; roosters, 20c; fowl, 30e; duck-
lings, 36c; turkeys, 60c.
Live poultry -Spring chickens, 80c;
roosters, 16e; fowl, 22 to 26c; duck-
lings, 30c; turkeys, 60c.
Margarme-20 to 22e.
Eggs -No. 1, 42 to 43e; eeleets, 50
to 61c; cartons, 52 to 540.
Beans -Can., handepicked, bushel,
3.50 to $3.75; primes, $3 to $3.25.
Maple products -Syrup, per imp.
gal., $2.50; per 6 imp. gals, $2.35.
Maple sugar, lbs., 19 to 22c.
Honey -60-3.4b, tins, 14 to 16e per
lb.; 6 -2% -lb. tins, 16 to 17c per ib.;
Ontario comb honey, per doz., $3.75
to $4.50.
' Smoked meats-Herns, med., 40 to
42c; heavy, 30 to 81c; cooked, 57 to
63c; rolls, 27 to 28a; cottage rolls, 30
to 31c; breakfast bacon, 33 to 38c;
special brand breakfast bacon, 45 to
47c; backs, boneless, 42 to 4'7c.
Cured meats -Long clear baeon, 18
to 21c; clear bellies, 18% to' 20%c.
Lard -Pure teepee, 19 to 19%c;
tubs, 19% to 20e; smile, 20 to 20140;
prints, 21 to 22c. 'Shortening. tierces,
1431 to 14%c; thee. 14% to 15140;
pails, 154 to 15%c; prints, 1704 to
17°4c.
Choice heavy steers, • $7.25 to $8;
butchers' steers, choice, $6 to $6.50;
do, good, $5.50 to $6; do, med., $4.50
to 5.60; clo, cone, $3 to $4.50; but-
chers' heifers, choice, $6 to, $6.50; do,
mod., $5.50 to $6; butchers' cows,
choice, $4,50 to $5; do, med., $3 to
$4.50; canners and cutters, $1 to $2;
butchers' bulls, good, $4.25 to $5; do,
come $2.50 to $3.50; feeders, good, 900
lbs., $5.50 to $6; do, fair, $4 to $4.50;
milkers, $60 to $80; springers, $60 to
$80; calves, ehoice, $9.50 to $10.50;
do, med., $7 to $8; do, come $2 to $5;
lambs, yearlings, $6 to $6.50; do,
speing, $8.50 to $8.75; sheep, choice,
$3.50 to $4; do, good, $2 to
do, heavy and bucks, $1 to $2; hogs,
fed and watered, $11; do, off ears,
$1125; do, f.o.b., $10.25; do, country
points, $10.
Montreal.
Oats -Can. West, No. 2, 59%c to
600; do, No. 3, 58 to 68%e. Flour -
Man. spring wheat pats., firsts, $10.50.
Rolled oats -Bag 90 lbs., V.25. Bran -
$29. Shorts -$31, Hay -No. 2, per
ton, car lots, $30 to $32.
Cheese -Finest easterns, 181/4e.
Butter -Choicest creamery, 8831 to
39e. Eggs -Selected, 45 to 46c. Po-
tatoes -Per bag, car lots, $1,75 to $2.
Good calves, V; dairy calves, $8 to
S4.
Canada's Lumber
Favored in West U.S.
A despatch from Washington, D.C.,
says: -In spite ot demands of North-
western shingle men, that the duty of
50 cents per thousand, as fixed in the
Fordney Bill in the House, be retained
by the Senate, Western. pine inteeeste
oppose the duty, and expect later on
to make a strong showing against it.
Senators on the Finance Committee
aro showing a marked dispositien 'to
oppose any form of lumber duties
aimed at Canadian Itnber, The rea-
son is found in the pressure of farm
organizations for free lumber. Testi-
mony been the Finance Committee,
moreover, Ilse revealed that the Bri-
tish Columbia shingles aro superior to
those made on the United States side,
because the latter are kiln -dried to ex-
eeSs.
PKEI liElfiEN ANNOUNCES
GENERAL ELECION BEFORE END OF YEAR'
Idea of Redistribution AbantIgnetli AsCOleellf0 Returns Are
Net Reeedys-,eterifi is the Principal Issue Be-
fore the People.
A despatch from Londoe, Oat„ says;
-Tbe challenge SO lightly thrown out
'by William Lyon Mapitetizie Sting end
the ruiners' party Lae' been. aoceptee.
Withinthe next three mouths the
Right. Hon, Arthur leleighen will ask
for the difisalution of Parliament and
appeal to the country, He made the
Renouncement to a gathering of two
thousand people in the Grand Theatre
here on Thursday night ane they
cheered his declaration of war with a
vigor and a show of fighting whit en-
tirely unusual In post-war political
audiences,
"It is in my judgment the duty of
Parliament and my duty as Prime
Minister of this country to ask for the
dissolution of Parliament at an earls'
date and an election before the new
Year, and that is the course I am go-
ing to purfnie," Mr. Meighen declared
at the close of a matter of tact ex-
planation of the consideration's that
had led to that decision, Mr. Meighen
frank/3, admitted that be would have
preferred to bring down .0, redistribu-
tire) bill before appealing to the people.
It had always been his intention,
though he had never pledged himself
to redietribution, but he had cores, to
the oenoluedon that it could not be,
clone without prolonging indefinitely
the uncertainty and the lea of con-
fidence that were retarding the com-
mercial and indturtglel recovery of the
coiuitry.
Inquiry had revealed the fact that
theelitreturns; upon wheels redite
tribution would haye to bo bailed
would not bo available before Decent -
bee, but even if they could be ready
November and v. special session of
Parliament held, it ,would Atilt be
necessary to commit the country to
imig Winter campaign.
"A Winter campaign, through De-
cemeer, January and February is
something. unthinkable," he comment-
ed,
In making his announcement the
Prime Minister Placed ficluarelY before
the people the taste upon which the
election would be fought, Tho cleav-
age between the advo'catee of a policy
of moderate protection and its
'enemies -the free traders' of tbe Far -
met Party "and the chameleons of
Liberalfem, with their "muffled drums"
of free trade, which never before
drawn so Clearly, so forcibly.
PREFERENCE GIVEN
TO OVERSEAS EXHIBITS
British Industries Fair Invite
Canadian Manufacturers
to Show Goods.
A despatch from London, Eng., says:
-Contrary to conditions; in previous
years, when lack of space at the Bri-
tish Industrie% Fairs prevented the
free cooperation of Canadian exhibit -
ore, ;every encouragement will be given
Canadianmanufacturers to show
goods at the forthcoming Fair to be
held at the White City next March.
This Fair will be open to all exhibitors'
within the British Empire on precisely
the same terms and conditions as to
United' Kingdom exhibitors. The
Board of Trade organizers, who wish
to emphasize the Imperial character
of the Fair, told that correspondent
that applications for space from °vele
seas would be given a time preference
In the order of alietment, owing to the
distance which the exhibits would
have to travel, Buyers are expected
Iran) all over the world and th.e Fair
promises to be exceptionally interest-
ing this year, as the food section is to
'be shown in London, instead of in
Glasgow as formerly.
Tower for Parliament Buildings
This le an exact model of the tower
to be erected on the new Parliament
Buildings at Ottawa.
WAR COMES TO AN OFFICIAL
END IN GREAT BRITAIN
A despatch from London sem-
The official end of the war on Wed-
nesday night brings a cut in wages
and salaries of employees of the Gov-
ernment epproximating £500,000
weekly. 'Civil servants' bonuses, bas-
ed on the cost of living, have been re-
duced considerably. The higher grades
of workers laze 10 to 60 per cent. cf inoperetive,
dzelveitakiernaunosias ,meousacssmalsoraiream,..ettanseram
their remit pay. Salaries under (1500
yearly aro reduced from five to twen-
ty -ono shillings weekly, and agrieul-
Oral wages fall six shillings weekly.
The Defence of the Realm' Act, em-
bodying a variety oe wartime restric-
tions, lapsed an Wednesday'night. Its
provisions have long been virtually
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ON SEPTEMBER 12
Explorer's Expedition to the
Antarctic Will Consist of
Eighteen Persons.
A despatch from London says: -Sir
Ernest Shackleton, interviewedre-
garding bis further expedition to the
antarctic regions, said that the pre-,
grant ead increased to such an extenti
that farther alterations had been madel
to the ship "Quest,'" which will bear;
the party among the ice ewe. The
Personnel of the party will be in-
creased frcie fourteen to eighteen.
These chtingee have delayed the, de-
parture of the expedition, which it is
now expected to leave about Septette
ber 12 eext. The British Admiralty
has done everything possible in the
way of loaning instruments, wholose
installations and hydrographic equip-
ment, and has also indicated certain;
lines of research which they desirecie
carried out. This Admiralty work
should result. in ensuring Increased'
safety for ships at nett in certain areas.
The expedition will also undertake a
program for the British Air Ministry
which will have a great economic
bearing on the future of aviation,.
Sir Ernest has declared that in car-
rying out researches for these two de-
partments, the original Antarctic pro-
gram will be in nowise curtailed.
Possibly before leaving ropetosen,
another geologist may be added to the,
expedition. It is the desire of John,
Quiller Rowett, well-known publicist
and scientist, who is financing the ex-
pedition, that the "Quest" in this ex-
pedition have representatives from
each of the British self-governing Do-'
minions on board. At present two.
New Zealanders,, ono Canadian; andl
one Australian have been coinmission-i
ed for the party, but no South African.1
"Iron, Cold Iron."
War never an -meted to ranch in the
Stone Age, It never Casio into its,
own until men learned to take certain!
reeks, melt them and mane iron of
them. Trot and its derivative, steel,
have been the war -maker's metals.
One of the arguments advanced to'
show that Japan never could be a'
fundamentally strong war -making na-,
feint has been that she had not iron!
and must import her ores and steel.
Yet it long has been known that thel*
Japanese Archipelago is of volcanic;
origin and that these islands are sol
many heaps of iron oxide deposits of 1
magnetic sand.
The sad' thing about this for the.'
gunbuilders and steel plate makers of
Japan has been that this "iron sand",
is a stubborn thing, too et -ebb= fort
the usual method of ore -smelting. The
Japanese, however, art it tenaciously
stubborn, rate, given to studious pot-
tering over retorts and test tubes. On
October 18, 1920, the Japanese War
Office lied this to say:
Iron sand is so general throughout
the length rind breadth of the empire
that it has long been plain that if some
method were discovered of smelting
iron front it Japan never would suffer
from want of steel. On the strength
of the above, the necessary investiga-
tions were started as early es Sops
tember, 1919, by 11 special committee.
* * Tho experiments of a year
have been crowned with tolerable suc-
cess, and the proem has been experi-
mented with on n practical scale at
the Penchichu Iron Works, under the
control of the Okura firm, with very
satisfactory results,
The matter dropped from sight or
hearing, It was guarded as a military
secret and still is, In all the talk of
arms end armaments nothing more
was heed until a few days ago..Then
the eables annoenced that Dr. Naito
and Goro Matauka had discovered a
new process for the making of steel
front "Iron sand" that Will revolution-
ize the world steel induetry, make Ja-
pan ono of the great iron -producing
nationo of the earth and make thel
Mikados empire independent of Great;
Britain and the United States so far,
as iron insports are coneernedc
Violcers, Ltd., the 'geed Free& and
American shipyards and fabrieeting
plants will miss the Japanese as elms
town and feel them ae competifOrs,
If "Mom cold loon, is Master of men
all," lagan is about to take her place
near the head of the table, Nor sitoUld
it be forgotten that iron and steel are
the metals of war,
France end tiolgiuni have to receive
Otti Getwoany /5.000 beellerech with
tlesir homes, ie 'the autumn.