Del, July 18.
of Clu" Pont equipment for Japanese Nitrate plants" were explained to United Press ina statement by the Clu Pont. company here as, follows vin. We have done a vast amount lot research work along the lines of the fixation of nitrogen which much "needed in agriculture, We fold the process to Japanese interfesig, among others,-and lent them an engineer, Mr. 8. K. Varnes, to erect the plant."
The statement deplored _reference~ to military uso of nitrates asserting that "the explanation is simply the prosaic one that Japan, because of Himited farming areas, greatly needs fertilizer. Japan has installed, and hhas_in- operation, more capacity for production of nitrates than could be Fequired for any conceivable milltary. purposes."
"This whole transaction is purely ccommercial—not military—and the effort to inject the munitions feature fs probably a part of the present outburst. of anti-munitions pro= paganda."—United Press.
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