in itself, may be described as innocent, but all the cotton imported by belligerents is not used for making clothing, Mr. Bertram Blount describes cotton 8 "the very core of every effective cartridge in any modern gun", tt is essentially ingredient of all modern propulsive explosives, says this expert, who adds that everything which throws a rifle bullet or a shell is propelled by nitrocellulose, which is unobtainable except by the nitration of cotton. From this it is clear why Germany Was 80 annoyed when cargoes of cotton consigned to her began be held up by the Royal Navy. In an extremity she might attempt to utilize manufactured articles; it has been reported for some time that she has gathered up every scrap of copper she could lay hands on. But it is one thing to melt uv knockers, pots and pans, and quite another to use manufactured articles for making nitrocellulose for use as a propulsive ex-Plosive. The purity of the raw material for making effective nitrocellulose for explosives is practical-essential, and therefore an embargo on raw material of indubitable quality is imperative.
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