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Show BUY LANDS EH ' POM PLANT MOUNTAIN TOP8 OVERLOOKING DU PONT WORKS SAID TO BE j OWNED BY BROWN MEN i ' Quietly Bought Up Land en Which Could be Mounted a Few Guns Which Could Esslly Put Plant ! Out of Business With Few Shots. New York A Japanese syndicate which is said to represent the Japanese government, has been secretly se-cretly pure hawing a number of mountain moun-tain tope overlooking the great Du Pont smokeless powder plant at Has-koll, Has-koll, N. J The poftder of this factory Is manufactured almost exclusively for the United States government. It Is this powedr wlilch Is used by the big guns of tbe army and navy. With such caution have tbe Japanese Japa-nese taken titles to tbe bills to the! northward of tbe Haskell plant that tbe ersldenls of the neighborhood did not become aroused until the present agitation In California against alien' ownership of lauds began to develop : Its proportions. I "Why they quietly settled tie re be-' side us Is a puzsle," said one of the1 officials of the Du i'ont Powder company com-pany late Tuesday night "If they wanted to they oould mount a few guns there and throw a few shells Into our midst and would pretty nearly near-ly put us out of business. Of course I am not saying that tbey have any such thing In mind. I have always been of the opinion that Japan Is one Of our best friends." |
