Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-08-31 | Page 7 | Armies Fight for Soda Lake

oo ARMIES FIGHT If Great Britain succeeds in capturing cap-turing German East Africa she will come into possession of one of the greatest deposits of soda in the world. She has already an enormous deposit in Lake MagadI, which lies east of Lake Victoria Nyanza and about 2S0 mileB from the sea, and consists of a solid block of almost chemically pure sesqui-carbonate of soda, with a surface area of at least fifty square miles. It is known to be more than 9 feet deep, and maybe may-be fifty or 100. This lake is generally dry, when it looks as If frozen. After rain It Is covered with a layer of strong soda-water. soda-water. It Is fed by many springs, all charged, and some of them saturated satur-ated with soda. This proves that somewhere near by there is a far larger deposit. Across the border line in German East Africa aro Lakes Natron, Egassl, and Lawa-Yamwerie, larger than Lake Magadi, and formed of almost pure carbonate of soda. It is these that will become British In the event of Britain winning the German colony.