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TOKOHAMA.
BRITISH MANUFACTURERS PROSPECTS
absence from Exporte under licence were permitted Greater steadiness in prices has been to Japan. France, and Russia. But the descriptive writers that were permitted one of the features of the past year in the closing of the outlet in the United States, at one time to accompany on Army in the rubber market. Fine hard Para has which absorbs 15 per cent of the world's field, the public has been able to obtain fluctuated between 3. 34. per lb, production, was the most serious aspect some kind of picture of the conditions of We may not quite know-how touched in February, and 2s. 6d. per lb., of the prohibition. Negotiations were the war. recorded in November, so that the range begun, however, hetween the British and the war is progressing mad the actual of oscillation, which last year was 1s. Gd. American Governments with a view to disposition of the troops, but the letters, per lb. and in 1019 19., has further hiding a solution of the difficulty, and from officers and private soldiers that harrowed to gld. per lb. First grade eventually, on the 9th instant, it way have been published havo in very maay plantation rubber began the year at 2.mnounced that the British Government cases given us more vivid word-pictures 21d. per ib., and after some preliminary bad agreed to permit the exportation of than we have had in the past from famous Huctuations touched the high-water mark rubber to the United States if America war-correspondents. Of course, every of 38 d. in April, relapsing in the manufacturers entered into an underbody has the power of expression more or closing month of the year to 18. 11. taking not to no export the commodity in less, but one hardly expected that privato Hongkong, 1st March, 1915. With the exception of a rapid advance in any form except through the United soldiers or officers who before the war had April and another upward movement in Kingdom, As it happened, the prohibi- November, which synchronized with ation came into force at a very convenient devoted themselves wholly to sport would decline in fine hard Para, there has been juncture for producers, as supplies had able to so thrill people with their let- & marked discrepancy between the prices been greatly curtailed as a result of theters and to so bring the terrors, and hor- rors, and sublimity of war into the hearts. of the two commodities throughout the activities of the Emden. The immediate of their readers, that, reading, one sves year, amounting frequently to as much effect was to stiffen the price of Para the actual struggle even more clearly than as od per lb. Prices closed the year only rubber, upon the supplies of which Ame on a bioscope film. That untrained and
manufacturers fractionally below the level at which they rican
were entirely in some cases quite uneducated mon shopli British rubber inanufacturers suddenly have evolved such descriptive thrown. months leads irresistibly to the conclusion have, as can be readily imagined, been powers, is proof of the fact that emotion that the precipitous decline in 1913, which kept fully occupied since war broke out, capable of producing the most extra was frequently attributed to faulty and with Germany and Austria-which ordinary effect upon the mental facultion. methods of marketing, was quite justified between them in 1973 exported $7,623,000 We certainly do know that under the by the technical position of the commodity worth of ruhher goods-eliminated as stress of emotion mes are capable of phy- EXCELLENT QUISINE AND HOME In short, the supplies had increased to competitors, they should enjoy a satisfac sical feats which would be impossible to such an extent that an abnormal priestory degren of activity even when the them in their normal condition, but it s a question whether we have ever taken the as tested by the margin between cost of requirements of the allied Governments production and selling value, was no show a tendency to diminish. The Times pocts seriously who say that their best longer justified. During the past year
work has only been produced at the touch of love or death. We production and consumption were ma
expect great writers to write well about anything and at any nearly as possible evenly balanced until the war came along to upset the opera tion of the natural law of supply and demand.
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time, and poets ought to be able to sing not FRENCH LESSONS
as their fancy but ours bids then That is why we are disappointed when the Poe Laureate does not come out with some- The problem of protecting the battle thing good on every great national occa ship from the ravages of the submarine,sion. For instance, people who like verse the torpedo, and the mine can be solved, have been grumbling because Dr. Bridges says Mr. Louis P. Bowie, by the use of has done, nothing worth recalling bearing He struck & plain- rubber plates, and he is especially anxious on the present war. that the Admiralty should give at least a tive note or two in August and has since then been dumb. But the fact is that the trial to his experiment,
Laureate is so essentially a man of penco that war does not move him to day emo tion.
"I claim from experiences of explo sives, on rubber and guttapercha," said Mr. Bowler to a Star representative, that 4-inch to 6-inch rubber plates attached to a 11-inch armoured ship will withstand the explosive force of any torpedo or mine in present age.
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NOTICE OF REMOVAL.
Notwithstanding the steady progress with the systematic collation of data, precise figures as to the world's rubber output are not yet obtainable; but substan- tially accurate estimates can be made by statistical painstaking inquirers The Kosition is greatly obscured by the extent which reclaimed rubber is used. It hus been estimated that quite 25,000 tons of roclaimed rubber are used annually, and this may well be within the mark; but it is obvious that when raw rubber is cheap there is not the same inducement to use second-hand material and substitutes us when it is dear. Consequently, with first- grade plantation rubber obtainable at round 28. per lb., it seems reasonable to Resume a smaller consumption of reclaim ed. The output in Brazi this year is estimated at 40,000 tons, but may not improbably prove to be equal to last year's figure of 45,000 tons. What the production of other varieties of wild rubber will bo it is quite impossible to say, as all estimates are likely to be falsified by the far-reaching effects of the war. This African supplies, which in 1912 totalled sented by a huge battleship, offering solid be a war or no. The reply is that the In all Bores and Sizes
I believe that the heavy armoured plate is doomed in face of the 800-ton dis placerent submarine, and the losses sustained in the present war show that armour-plate from liin. to 18-in. thick is quite ineffectual against the torpedo and mine."
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Like the Tashi Lama he does nut go out to see reviews of troops. He might be stirred to violent, verse if a Zeppelin dropped a bomb at his door, but for the present we can expect nothing from himing, On the other hand, one secs almost every day in the newspapers perfect gems of worse, the product of the war, and the re salt of the effect of drums, upon people who in their country villages have heard them throbbing in far-off Flanders. But, it will be objected, if omotion really lends true vitality to literature, why is it that WILL BEND BUT NOT BREAK
there is not more literature, for every It is common knowledge with exple man and woman at some period of his o sives," said Mr. Bowler, that with a her life has felt deep emotion? Love and ponderous floating mass, such as is pre-death are always with us, whether there
Y popular English Manufacturers. 20,000 tons, will probably show a severe steel-faced resistance to the explosive greater majority of people have no aced shrinkage. The Mexican supplies of shark of the torpedo, something has to go to express their emotions publicly. In
SMOKELESS POWDER and CHILLED guayule have also been seriously infor: The hardened steel is a noo-absorber of the ordinary course love and death wro fered with by the insurrection.. The concussion, and its only influence is that purely personal matters, and there is no SAOT, From No. 10 to 88SG, at $6,87 and
desire on the part of the public to press. plantation output would under normal of repelling. conditions have totalled at least 65,000 "The effect of this same terrific force into domesticity. The papers do not de $7.50 per 100. SPORTING REQUISITES tons, against last year's output of 42,000 ntilised against a tough, unbreakable sire to publish letters bearing upon a
and AIR GUNS in Variety. domestic drama. And yet, if the truth tone, but will probably be rather less, yielding, and resilient body, such as to be told, there must have been written owing to the restriction of tapping on rubber or gutta-percha, exhausts and enormous multitudes of letters and
Inspection Invited. Estates which cannot produce at a profit absorbs the striking force or concussion. smaller number of verees from A to B, with rubber at less than 2s, per ib.
To explain that in practice, one need only the result of a personal emotion, which, if refer to the pneumatic, or rubber tyre, published, would be considered the finest literature. Even the dullest of aren, when stirred by such an emotion as love, cau write such letters as leave him dumb with amazement when reading them in after years. We also have this fact that there does appour from time to time a single, book or a solitary piece of verse which looks like the product of genius. But the He has author is never heard of again, had his emotion, expresses it, and then disappeara.
FUTURE OF SUPPLIES.
In the absence of trustworthy data upon WHAT 200 TONS OF DYNAMITE DIE. which to base an estimate of consumption,“
"In 1868 I witnessed the effect of an interest centres in the future of prodać-explosion of 200 tons of dynamite at tion. The first broad lesson which past Bramsfontein, Johannesberg. It occurred experience has taught is that the consump-on a siding used for shanting dynamite tion is really regulated by the production, laden trucks,
EUBBER ARMOUR IN THE CONGO.
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DIRECTORY
all that is required to ensure the Special precaution had been made at absorption of the increased supplies being the dead-end in a gutta-percha buffer, so a decline in the price. It may be neopted that if the trucks did run loose the gutta that the output of wild rubber has long perchs would lessen the shock, and since reached its limit, and that a more perhaps prevent an explosion. or less rapid decrease may now be con-
But, on the other hand, can one go so The trucks dashed with such force into fidently anticipated. It should be men. tioned, however, that there are authorities the buffers that a terrific explosion took far as to say that without motion it is live in a continued state of passion er who now take the view that wild rubber place, killing over 300 people. Trucks and impossible to write well at all? Do peers will not be so easily displaced as was at siding were blown into the air, and on despair? The reply is that by continned one time supposed. It was too hastily examining the spot half an hour after the practice men do obtain a certain facility assumed that copious supplies of cheaply explosion I noticed that nothing was left in writing. The correct word comes more produced plantation rubber would carry but the gutta-perche buffers, which and more easily to them. They find the everything before them. That might remained intact barring rents and cuts appropriate adjective without much apply to African and other inferior made by lying projectiles and scorching searching, and their ears, gradually at-f rubbers, but it certainly does not follow by the heat.
tanod to the rhythm of phrases, reject the in the case of Para rubber, which for one
Besides, one has to con- Wrong sentences. reason or another is so highly appreciated This was the first proof I had had sider what is called "inspiration. by manufacturers that they are prepared of the extraordinary resisting powers of Everybody uses and misuses this word. to pay a premium of 10d per lb. for it. rubber, although in my earlier days of What it really means is that it is within These latter considerations, however, in African travel. I had noticed that the the power of certain persons to work them PROTESTANT no way modify the conclusion that the
any provoking cause. The more they do future lies with plantation rubber. The natives of the Upper Congo had used selves into a condition of emotion without planted area in the East of over 1,400,000 rubber as a means of defence. “ acres will in a few years produce,
"Their ox hide shields were coated with approximately, 200,000 tons of rubber per rubber to make them impervious to arrows annum. During 1915 the increase to the and spears, while sorge natives had fixed plantation production even under normal rubber balls on the head, made by smear senditions would not be so marked as ining the latex of the rubber vine, on their the few preceding years, because planting woolly hair, where it had congealed and
3008 and 1000 was comparatively hardened into a huge ball. neglected. To 1016 and succeeding years, learned these ineans were adopted however, the rate of increase will be as protection against clubs and knob greatly accelerated, unless the prics falls kerries. to such an unremunerative level auto p
EXPERIMENT OF 1860.
the more easily it comes to them, and we find them at last, slipping, almost condition of furious mental activity. on the instant they take up a pen into a Drugs and spirits will also induce in some mon mental activity of the rarest kind. So will contact with danger. Bo we bro led back to the men in the trenches, and the letters they write home. There are some peple who say that the true history of the present war will never be written, first, because the authorities are suppress- ing sources of information, and again be! cause the war is too big a thing for a Of course, if by p single man to tackle.
true" history is meant the kind of pro-.... dnction that the German General Staff evolved about the Russo-Japanese War, and broke the shot to pieces, while they believe that the task is almost im They say that of names and dates 1 rubber remained elastic and unimpaired. possible. But is history a more statement The expense of covering a battleship Napier on the Peninsula War and King- with rubber plates would, of course, be lake on the Crimean War are not to be very great, but what would the expense trusted, but they really give us picture be when compared with the saving of life?
gestrict tapping to a serious extent. It Another experiment of the recoiling has been argued in some quarters strength of rubber was made as long ago as one result of a period of unduly low 1880. A piece of rubber 7in. thick and 1ft. prices would be the reversion of many young and over-capitalized ostates to square was laid under a steam hammer, jungle, but this conclusion, which probably and a Gin, round shot was placed on it. found its orgin in Lecarcely acknowledged The hummer fell with tremendous force hope, is hardly likely to be well founded, as capital is almost certain to be forth coming for any well planted rubber which, is offered cheaply enough. ·
PROHIBITION OF EXPOETS.
DATAPROPOSED TEST,
and their works will live long after the ofacial histories are dead, and this is because they saw the wars they describe, and themselves felt the emotions which they portray in others. Surely the pre- sent war will produce writers, some on the French, some on the Russian, some on the German, and some on the British side. and we may take it that one, at least, of these men will write an epic. The war it self is the greatest epic of history, and it cannot be that it will pass unrecorded in an epical form. What are mere names und dates and places, compared with the bone. and substance of such a thing as war!
If conclusivo proof wire required of the prisas importance of rubber as a raw
I have put my ideas before the Rubber material it was speedily forthcoming on the outbreak of war Motor traction was Association, and they have made a pro seen at the very outset to be a deciding position to the Admiralty to supply the factor in the military operations. Co- rubber free for covering a trawler mine sequently, the British Government in the sweeper; and I am so satisfied that this latter part of September declared rubber boat would be impervious to torpedoes and contraband of war, but long before that mines that I am quite prepared to take the the Mincing Lans sales had Teen sweeper into a minefield for a test; abandoned as 'impracticable under the The cost of covering a 120-foot mine circumstances. That Germany realized sweeper with rubber to the waterline the difficulty of maintaining its supplies would be from £12,000 to £15,000 was shown by the fact that rubber prices Rubber is quite unaffected by ses were almost doubled in that country in water as has been proved by cables which Official histories at their very best are the first days of the war, and various have lain under the tea for 20 years nere photographs, but the real history. public bodies found it necessary to issue encased in gutta percha.. instructions regarding the necessity, for
Another experience Mr. Bowler had of rigid economy in its use. The British Government proceeded to prohibit the the value of rubber was in West Africa. exportation of raw rubber from Eastern He put three sticks of dynamite in a river ports to anywhere but British destira to kill fish, and unknowingly placed them tions.
This embargo was immediately close to a hosetubs used for supplying extended to England. The importance water to an engine. Although the charge of this prohibition to plantation rubber went off under the tube and blew every producers was evidenced by the heavy thing else sky high, the rubber late came falling off in experts in the concluding out of it uninjured.
such as will be written, will be a great picture through which the soul of the sit Er shines-Englishmon (Celcutta).
The Amsterdam Telegraaf says that an inhabitant of Bruges has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for having irried letters from Holland to Belgium.
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