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Show LONDON NEWSPAPER SPRINGS SENSATION Globe Gives Prominence to What It Refers to as the Sulphuric Acid Scandal. LONDON, Sept. 23, 1:06 p. m. Great prominence Is given by the Globe today to what it describes as "the scandal of sulphuric acid." "In the spring of this year, for reasons believed to be good and sufficient, doubtless, doubt-less, but which we hope will be made the subject of an inquiry by the house of commons," said the Globe, "the firm of C. Tennant Sons & Co.. by no means connected in a family sense with a member mem-ber of the cabinet, was commissioned to buy large quantities of sulphuric acid In America. Why no attempt was made to secure acid In this country we will not stop to inquire." The Globe asserts that the methods employed em-ployed In the shipment of acid were so defective that hundreds of thousands of pounds were lost. It is asserted the acid was forwarded In an Impure form In Iron drums which, even had the acid been purr, would have corroded and leaked. It Is said ships were damaged by escaping escap-ing acid, which released noxious ases, endangering the health of the crews. In one case, according to this newspaper, the crew refused to leave port and the acid was held up in New York for two months. Two steamships have been damaged so badly that there was nothing to do but to buy them at a cost of :J00,000. The Globe suggests two questions: Why the acid was not shipped in proper vessels, ves-sels, and who baa made good to the owners, Tennant Sons & Co., or the government. |