To, the Editor of the '"NowTH-CuiNa Dairy News."
Sim—In your issue of the 17th! you make interesting reference to Invention and. perfection of a was new strong and. hard allamiaium Alloy said to. possess great tensile Strength and hardness equal to that mild steel, 1'hope thet you will acquit me of attempt to avail. myself of free" advertisement, but the statement that. the discoverer of the new process isa Swedish, Mr. Harden of the Metallographic Institute, Stockholm, savours of @ challenge to British, science and. invention and Task leave to point out. that an Altaminiam possessing all the attr utes to which you refer, and more, has been" discovered and perfected English inventor, Mr. Sya mots, the. well-known metallurgist Bristol. 'This Alluminium - to hich has' been" given the name Ardal and. which has been put_on ther market already by the Avda Company Ltd, of which T am Sole Regent for the Far East, has the fetremely" high tensile strength of 27 tons to the square, inch with elongation, in corta of the grades|> of as much as 29 per cent. and a sThardness of from 80 to, higher resisting power than that Sr'wrought iron The metal when polished has the colour, and. lustre Eplpure silver superior to chromium positively non-tarnbr dry climates, will country is going to make.
remember a young American who told me that he was taught the Germans were barbarians, but when after the war he came to Shanghai found them as good and as bad any other nation.
The tragedy for Germany is that this country is situated in the
many other disadvantages of Europe which caused be-too late an unification of this country, and too late a. colonial politic. ' Her people are of a charac-
The other story isa personal! tone. "I was driving along Seward Road in the late Autumn, when 1 noticed a heap of straw hats blazing on the pavement in front of a Japanese hatter's shop, and a number Jof students dancing wildly around the fire. Asa number of thefts of Japanese goods had been taking place, T stopped my car, and enter ing the shop said to the proprietor, "If these Inds are stealing your hats, Til have them locked up" to which, he, "Honourably not inter fering, summer quite finish, and I ter too precise and frank (which get ing good price" and on the word" should be no disadvantage in science, an intrusive patriot, dashing three especially in technic and medicine dollars on the counter, seized a hat though in polities). and departed to add it to the blaze.
There would be more points for smile the hatter removed a reflection but I fear I have asked $24, price-ticket from another hat, already too much of the courtesy ith which he filled the vacancy, English newspaper.
Shanghai, Avg.
19, 1931." and the [ant enjoyment of their auto-da-fe, the crowd ote amok: hatter to indent for a fur thee supply.
Anrnur L, Axvenson. Shanghai, Aug. 24, i931,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.