Show BRITISH PRODUCTION T OF POTASH DESTROYS GERMAN MONOPOLY Dy Dr UnI ere I London Dec 14 H. 1 Progress made In recovering potash on a no commercial scale from pig Iron blast furnaces has destroyed tho German empires empire's hope of oC retaining ng the tho monopoly He Resultant from experiments fostered for the the- thelast last eighteen months month by tho the ministry of 01 munitions there thero havo have been Installed lately at several oral iron works special gas gaa cleaning plants plans that extract potash bearing dust from tho the ga gases eases ee This dust In largo quantities Is being dealt with at a specially built factory designed for tor an output of ot from to tons tous per week of 01 potassium ebb chlo- chlo of ot potash free from delo- delo Impurities Is be being Ins manufactured manufactured and experiments have shown that the addition of ot a n small email furnace fur fur- naco nace largely largel Increases tho the amount amoun of ot potash given off oft without harming I the tho pig piS' Iron produced The cost of ot about 40 a ton Is said eald to tobe tobo bo ho lower than tho the German price for chloride of ot pota potash h in England before betar the war Potash also aleo is Ie belay being produced d u as A I product by-product of ot the cement Industry a as' as aswell well as from the kelp burning Industry Indus Indusi i tr try In Scotland |