Fo the Editor of the "Nonrn-Ciina Dairy News."
'Sity—During the Great War, in 1917, Germany planned an alliance between Japan, Russia and herself, the Alliance of' the Three Empero The Russian Revolution began in 1917 and, afterwards in 1918, plans for an alliance were again formulate ed and conversations took place in Japan part of them being made by the Swedish Ambassador to Tokyo, On Wednesday, July 20, a Treaty: of Commerce and Navigation was concluded after three years of negotiation, between Japan and Ger-Although the contracting 8 failed to reach a compromise regarding the tariff, an agreement was concluded concerning the importation of dyestuffs, Before the Great War, Germany had established all over the world monopoly of her dye industry which was amply protected against competition, for whenever a non-German dye appeared, immediately it was snowed under an avalanche of German goods; if the competitor resisted business pressure he was oon put out of commission by trickery. Suitable additions of harmful substances were made by criminal hands in the mills of the users of non-German dyes, the object being to convince everybody that non-German dyes did not pos-ens the standard qualities necessary for their industrial use. By this double method in peace time—dumping and subotage—Germany acquit ed the practical monopoly of the dye industry.
The terrible situation in which France, Great Britain and Russia were placed by lack of ammunition after the opening battles of the Great War was due entirely to the German monopoly of the dye industry, for that country which manufactures dyes to-day can to-morrow make high explosives, with the same men, with the same plant, and with the same materials, provided there a sufficient supply of oxidized nitrogen. The dye industry and the manufacture of high explosives are so intimately connected as to be for all practical purposes virtually one. In fact melinite, the propellant used for the French "75" field gun a hydrocarbide, extracted from Gistilled coal tar in which is ineorporated oxidized nitrogen.
Before the Great War, Germany: succeeded, by adopting the necessary scientific and industrial methods, in extracting the oxidized nitrogen essential for the manufacture of her explosives from the atmosphere. The Paris edition of the London "Daily' Mail" published, on August 20, 1919, the following: political foresight, and the representatives of Great Britain at the Washington Conference must now be asking themselves if they were right in breaking the alliance with Britain's faithful ally—Japan, Tam, ete, 'A. E. N, Howano.
Captain. Late R. H. & R. PLA, Unzen, Japan, July 25, 1927.
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