Show DYNAMITE MANUFACTURE An Attempt to Secure Information Only Partially Successful Washington Jan 9Assistant Secretary Sec-retary of State Rockhill recentlycalled upon the United States consuls at Amsterdam Bremen Glasgow Hamburg Ham-burg Liverpool and Southampton for information on the manufacture of informaton dynamite in their districts and export dynami therefrom As a result it is learned I that none Is made in Holland Liverpool Liver-pool Southampton and Bremen districts dis-tricts and in each case the consuls report that the most extraordinary secrecy was preserved and every precaution pre-caution taken to prevent them from securing Information The single company com-pany in the Glasgow district exported principally to Australia and Cape Colony Col-ony and from the Hamburg district alone was any satisfactory statement obtained There consul Roberson after af-ter some efforts was able to learn that the dynamite trust of England and Germany was able to build a large factory in Johannesburg South Africa Af-rica that Germany exports dynamite In the to every Important country world except me United States and Imports none and found an explanation explana-tion in the remark that the American ton competition was so damaging In Central Cen-tral and South America that it was I lit n i i not proposed fo give Americans any information especially as owing to the closing of mines and the completion comple-tion of railroads to which American manufacturers had been selling their products has now compelled them to look for other markets |