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SPITSBERGEN'S MINERAL WEALTH.

A MOUNTAIN OF IRON ORE,

London, December 10- The Political Status of Spitsbergen," was the subject of an address at the Royal Geographical Society's Theatre, London, by Sir Martin Conway, Vice-President of the Society, Sir T. Holdich presided,

Sir Martin Conway, who ex- plored the islands in 1996, said that Spitsbergen should be spell- ed with an '8," not a

All

the part of the main island south of the Seven Glaciera was recognised sa belonging to England throughout the seven- teenth century. That area included the whole of the cual and mineral-district now attract- ing attention.

The north-west of the island belonged unquestionably to the Dutch.

No other country ever succeed ed in maintaining a right i continuously eren a single harbour. If mining became a successful industry, reindeer ranches might well provide su important part of the miners'

sustenance.

The eiderdown in lustry was likewise capable of great develop meat, if a close time could be imposed to protect the birds and their eggs. The herd of foxes! might be similarly re-established, but mere slowly, while to give new confilence to the walruses aul enable them to recover

their anything like

former numbers, a close time for half a century would hardly be to long

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From a 25-yen-a-mouth junior clerk in the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha in Kobo to the president of great shipping concern and lealership in several other big corporations with assets that total approximately £30,000,000 în a

But there is amier sile FOR SALE. Moter Till the reign of law was five-years" business career is the

of the problem which 19 too I Morris Cawley, four seater, f iamtured and wise regulations record of Mr. Nobuya Uchida, frequently overlooked. Thou- for sale, cheap. I perfect run- enforce 1 by authority restraining president of the Uchiha Steams of British soldiers have ning order. Very economical as the careless greed of the casual ship Company in Kobe.

been, for the first time in their regard, tyres and petrol, kunter, the present disgraceful Mr. Uchila was graduated from lives, introduced to the enslaving condition of the whole cuantry the Tokyo Higher Commercial Drugs are administered could not be altered. There School just a few years prior to should be small force of honest the outbreak of the great war. aud efficient naval policè equipp- and joined the Mitsui Busson with a few sea-going motor- Kaisha in Kobe where he took an launches.

firm of his own, a few months before the war started.

freely in French hospitals, and we are now reaping the result here at home.

"Shell-shocked" soldiers de- apprenticeship as a junior ship-nied sleep by shattered nerves Mr. A. G. Poating, who accora-ping clerk. After a few years have become used to the subtle this firm. Mr. Uchida narcotic, and its fascination takes panied Scott's Polar Expedition, with and who has recently visited established himself in a shipping some time to overcome. Spitsborgen on behalf of the Northern Exploration Company, said he had seen great tracts of land where the coal seams could easily be traced by the eye.

At Recherche Bay he tramped along the side of a mountain several miles long and some 1,500. high, which seemed

is

For six weeks I personally was given a scall quantity of par- Foreseeing an extraordinary aldehyde every evening. Every shortage of shipping during the one in my ward was similarly war Mr. Uchida quickly chartere i treited-one or two preferre as many ships as he could regard verunal, ani got it. Distastefu less of size and age. These he as it was st fint. a few nights subsequently sub-chartered to sufficed to change distaste into tar fras at an abnormally high craving. The lure of the drug charge. The story of how the is a terrible thing. One's whole to be... solid mass

Uchida fortune has increased by body and Erain crave for the ore, so rich that a magnet held to the ground would pick leaps and bounds is a romance of temporary bliss it brings up fragment of it. No shaftsdern business in Japan.

Recently Mr. Uchida has alter-soldier remembers the transitory Back again in England. the would be necessary, and the ora

ed the organisation of his firm to bliss of the drugged sleep and for- would be carried from the mɔun- tain side to the ship.

joint stock corporation with a capital of £10,000,000 with gets the aftermath. Paraldehyde These had been found to several of his right-hand men on

is almost impossible to obtain average over 65 per cent. of the board of directors. This

in England and veronal very magcetic iron, which was twice one of the steps taken to be

difficult, but there are opium an as rich as any works ble deposits prepare for possible emergencies

cocaine to be hart-opium most known in the British Islestial may arise in the business easily of all. Whatever the lare Recherche Bay, where the le-world as a result of the termina of paraldehyde, opium and posits, enough to last Great ton of the war.

cocaine are thousand tines Britain for centuries, were situate: During the two previous great practically incurable. The fact worse. The opium fiend is

Chins and then with Russia, is significant enough. Men will wars Japan engaged in first with | that 28. worth fetches £10 to £20" small wonder that in the Brest-

many shipping firms have proe die for opium: Litovsk Treaty the Germans

pered and have failed after the demanded 3 free hand in conclusion of each of these wars, If it is vitally necessary to the organisation of Spits mainly due to the fact that these administer drags. to. nerve- bergen; but the Northern Exploration Company's expedi- shipping firms were not in a shattered soldiers, it should or tion took possession of the Ger-position to withstand the reaction done with the utmost caution. in shipping that came with To make drags a nightly fare for man claims, dismantled the wire-

two or three months on end is to Jess apparatus, and unfurled the Realising this fact and foresee-breed the insatiable last that Union Jack on the flagstaff that ing the keen international com-knows no cure, formerly flew the German colours.petition his firm will inevitably The drug habit is increasing Seventeen different kinds of undergo. Mr. Uchida has organ-by leaps and bounds. Nurses in ninerals had been discovered, ia-ised a trading corporation on an hospitals have little difficulty in cluding gold-bearing quartz.international scope with branches procuring quantities of anything, Enterprising neutrals were now in America and Europe. He also from cocaine to heroin. Chorus in Spitsbergen. A Swedish com-has bought the Yokohama girls invite acquaintances to take pany had permanently establish- Engine and Iron Works, an a 'ani," and the unsuspecting ed itself, and done a flourishing establishment which has been person does so for fun,' baziness,

el, was not more than five days' voyage by tramp steamer. It was

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Strangely enough, the drug foreign management and he is fiend is never happy unless he is now contemplating an expansion gathering new apostles to the of this institution on a large cult. It is one of the outstanding scale in view of building some of features of the whole deplorable his ships at his own shipyards. business. Gaining converts be- A committee appointed. by

In view of the expansion of comes an obsession. So the in- the Council of British the Uchida business a new office sidious evil speads. Ophthalmologists has reported building, to cost approximatoly

Wherever the chief blame may that examinations for sight Y650,000, is being built in Kobe. testing of candidates for the The building is to cover a total rest, the Army authorities are to public services of Mercantile area of 173 tsubo. It will be a

some extent guilty. Not a few Marine are conducted under reinforced concrete structure of a cotics to the fact that they were

men owe their allegiance to nar variable and often unsatisfactory modern Renaissance style. It given them in military hospitals conditions, and recommends a will be finished by June, 1919.

been gained by these poor slaves? and how many converts have

tiniform system of illumination, Mr. Uchida has made several

which, among other arrange-donations to public enterpises, nients, care would be taken that among them being Yen 1,000,000 no glaring lights or bright objects to a new high school to be fore, in the candidate's line of established in his natire city of spinong, and extreme - contrast. Mito and also Yen 1,000,000 to betüben illuminated test card the improvement funds of public and background is avoided. roads between Kobe and Sums:

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