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Show OLD IRON ON BATTLEFIELDS Metals That Are Supposed to Accumulate Accumu-late in Great Quantities Being Salvaged Sal-vaged and Used Again. Considerable speculation has been going the rounds as to the amount of scrap iron and steel that is accumulating accumu-lating on the battlefields of Europe, and how It is to be disposed of. American companies which regularly deal in such old material have for some time been looking forward to tha harvest to be reaped from these battlefields bat-tlefields after the war, says London Tit-Bits. These hopes have now been rciher rudely shocked by observers recently re-cently returned from the front, who state that this matter Is now being handled by the respective governments. govern-ments. According to the systems now established estab-lished In modern warfare, It Is stated, a salvage corps Is daily going over all the ground near the battle front exposed ex-posed to fire, and Is gathering all the debris discarded by the contending armies. None of the scrap Is neglected, neglect-ed, with steel worth 1 pence to pence per pound, and copper and other metals In proportion. All the metals are taken to shops In the rear, and there worked Into tie various muni" tlons that a modern army uses. 1 All the lead that Is fired Is practical-Iy practical-Iy lost, as a bullet traveling at a ve loeity of 2,000 feet or more per second sec-ond hurles Itself so deep Into any object ob-ject It hits as to be lost entirely. Oth-er Oth-er metals, however, such as tangled steel from wrecked motor cars, large pieces of shells, bits of copper, pieces of aluminum, etc., are carefully collected col-lected and later turned into usable condition. |