Show WAR WAn BUSINESS RISES S STRANGE OTRANGE how the rumors of coming war ea eabe can be felt in off far places and i in the mc most st peaceful of pursuits Steamship tr traffic through the he Panama canal is heavy 1 these da days B and and the imminence of war waris is largely sible During the first three weeks of February for instance 12 steamers passed through the canal bound for Europe with Chilean nitrates nitrates from which high explosives are made At the same time many ships are arc going through the canal in the other direction bound from the east coast of the United States for Japan with scrap iron lead and cotton com otton com commodities which also are destined to be transformed transformed transformed trans trans- formed into the munitions of war war 0 Rusty steamers deeply laden busy on the most neace peaceful ul of errands errands but but grimly foreshadowing foreshadowing fore fore- shadowing the fear of war which grips the world I |