Show I 1 ais IT p tv lit df ali rt w 1 I 1 e it A IR t 3 itri Z lk vw y st I 1 to P 91 xi A lagoon in nauru lauru avers I S i sion grachal G rachal SO ai D U C I 1 when germany started into the col CI bolzing wol zing business centuries later inter thin other tl r jm powers and ad go got control I of the is worlds it left en overs leant she b looked ad on the island of 0 nauru lauru I 1 tar out cut lu in tile the pacific macid all aa one me of the least of her possessions but me en before the world war or it cam came to be m recognized that naura nauru its size considered 1 one as of the worlds w orld a chrest stood islands new it Is under a british mandate and the wealth it produces Is falling lot into I 1 other coffers phosphate rock I 1 is the reason for nauru lauru a 3 importance it held millions of tons ot of this valuable fertl fertilizer biz r N haum co or ale pleasant ant island Is almost at t the th I 1 jumping ju acid off place 0 of tile the world thing it Is 1 only italy thirteen r teen degrees it uve west net of the international date data 1 line itte and ad ajl a degree bouth nth of the equator tia it is one 0 f w whit li it sailors call the line a lands before it fell to germany it knew no white huleis lets but was governed by it its own laws hias and chiefs but white in fluence had bad lm imkin pined ed upon it tor to r miny on y y years wit whaling ablog ships from new rg N 1 land ports parts called there and trad traded it fre fire wron for drinking coconuts eacman and island land pigs pig it was we rather a poor island in those them far off dove davs before its great wealth w was discovered it had no ean ban damwood dalwood or tortoise toilets a shell shall no pearls or beche bache do de mer me not at even copra pro for far copia we was not at made le hi the ills be fore face 1872 and coconut oil v was not t an article of at commerce core the no nans hw hive never been be can bats but they had the repetition a of being savage arge warriors A traveler ug 1 from 1 e ew zealand who be visited the la Is land just before the geronna tool possession pos se anlon found the natives all armed and a j involved ovad 1 in deadly foods feuds lie he counted nine k kinds ind a of rifles office of english and ad american america make andle besides several camione camions an a there were then ten white traders thing near each other along ula the beach find and some of their half sit caste descendants are there hotter when germany took over a the blinds she bhe rave gave the natives a certain number of ans to give up their or arms generally obeyed but a few thi fill ew theirs into tile the caves which undrille unde mu lettle ille the na island m where here they are found fro from time to time by exploring parties germans german taught copra cap making mk ag there are two MO things t aln to I 1 the ger gar hous lans credit in the par pacific I 1 fil the limitt built roads reads red and they taught th the e bathes to make copra copra Is 1 easily made and stored the meat of the I 1 ape coconut Is broken into pieces piece ond ad dried 1 in the I 1 sun joel long enough to extract hie it moisture then it is I 1 bagged d and ready read for sale ale in the south seas copia la IS a anicic air word I 1 lor or tilts this the pacific trader dares the and s of tile the solomons and the fhe new ew hebr delude He lude des and shumans tile test teeth of thi the I 1 total rest reefs ahe 1 I lie trade store an and of copra pro sued stand on tile the beach t f cheit coral ile and when a steamer bi cf or or schooner bails the B rf I 1 boats basis go 90 in suit and out at over tile the reef err at high tide or it through ugh intricate clan cl an not nels when there to la an open laggen carrying eyink trade dmd goods foods and returning alth ith bugs bags of aipia 1 ith the go genso genan blondal cot Cl ondal government did not know what a treasure tie asure if r had under us its feet but was it contant tint to in run va a little tride store a branch of 0 the old the callb jundt store which cold to tobacco ond and beer aliska canned an 1 mil 1 non ugar eager rice ric and still shir id caits it also fold 11 in I 1 chan c for copra pilots mints old id thin jace icse Pc Ce se ailes L for or tile the hiither robt it dmares which I 1 the e missionaries tait ta it tile nn a american a sell and ter for the tle ills women coneen to near mr iv lavas the native men wore to top ludia churches chuiches chu iches till then mea great change owing to 10 the th discovery dae ry of phosphate according to geologists emam aau like aphrodite rose it appleg fro arom I 1 the at s ca rali miner emergence C may any int have a aea bac adder the process of eleva be been sudden or cr ibe ow ma fine doan gradual at A nay island W ex 11 cerul the rate oil when posed it must meet hes I 1 looked like I 1 the foular at ter built in squad uma to pinnacle towers bridge flying baing butt buttresses mese ond ad oiher tural tand fantasies up reared into the air birds bird in millions III I 1 tons the sea I 1 1 I lam hen mine thi feeding f on no the and bUm millions 1 ion sea so of food ack them torel ill in 1 the cural coral hatching botching their young in ever or lacious toil it the uit big cool etude waste nests of their bodies in the co coral 1 hll the lower hover crevices were filled cited and ad a gradually rising body of go guano a attained at length a level with the I 1 topa 0 of the it pinnacles ae and ad than roie to s above them em and lay in a level plate plateau u across the a island vast V at phosphate deposits 0 on in the the rains at the winds wind slid and the breakers s P a has high against the rural coral washed sailed away this deposit so that ramparts of I 1 here bare pin pa merlc stood load up and ad belll it stand ian all murd the island but the coral carol walla wall b bick 1 flom the shore held safe tile the t r e sure after this the teeming bird u life f e dom deserted r ted in the a island inland how or why Is n m in mastery astery T then h under nature a for forces a trans amas fo formation o oud occurred u d guano I 1 is eldell chiefly phosphoric acid and nitrogen coral carol is chiefly lime somehow by the clo close content the go guano b became me changed into lot phosphate of lime which Is guano g 0 raised to the nth power it had bad now become a hard rock nick odorless and generally general v co colorless lorl sit although I gh some specimens show fine dark strati fica unit tion suit and take a high polish A british trading company operating from sydney discovered phosphate on n ocean mend island a smalls smaller neighbor of urn and then found the larger deposits pa on oil the letter latter island A lease was obtained from the germans a on a partnership lop basis and when he the world war started the exploitation was proving profitable for both groups thre there were exciting time S en an the little needs islands during the war an A aus A trillion worship warship called replaced the gennan gelmon flag by the british and re ra belied the agreement ot of the german ro residents to submit to british control but bet will when the ship had sailed away the get gennana seized control and deported the british residents to ocean island it was months here beffie word could be gotten to the outside world and another ship sent to arrest tho the germans and restore british control contra a on the mend inland eimil has about twelve hundred n als thes to in 1918 nil 11 indicated their dc sire to become became brulah british sub surjeet jeet how phosphate Is ie mined mand phosphate Is mined by chinese coolies 1 in open quarries but these are not like stone quarries where e e illig I 1 is taken out as a the work p progresses r greases ilia hie ph phosphate phoso hate Is p packed between the cral coral plane 1 C as Y as the filling in a tooth lauth and must be ecca excavated ted leaving the pin phi acca standing tile there Is perhaps n no hotter work ing place on an earth tor far us as the we work rk men d descend und digging and ad blasting jhc thc are below the HIP leel of the trade winds wind s cool eneith and exposed to tile tiie fi fiene fic C rule rava of it alie tropic ann ni ell a coolie has be filled a pair of baskets he be hangs bugs one on sell end of a co earning pole and maket makes his way lay by it leas paths through the worked caked out places to a central aral eler e ler called the th lulng fox far running on a cable he H dumps dump ilia his bs baskets la and trots trot back for far another lon docil I 1 w while hile the cour bourret ret con can e a the ph phosphate P ate to a hopper a tell tali w a to towe w with ith chutes arms rom abah it 11 IB a dropped into cara am ready to take it to tile drien huge buil buildings dinge ala bilog crushing and arning ma chinery and storage him bins to tor tile the fl fin fished prod product t I 1 lwe ancs clasca of laborers laborer the workers worker en I 1 hie ill phosphate P held field and the loading bews a on be cars cam and boats basis include few fall natives ot of lauru nauru earn the former as ai we ahme seen 1 are ahin chinese le coolies the tha w ile C imil latter conr kam cos recruited C from other islands lauru nauru are 1 Is bout beat se wen ce and ad R half bell mill miles long and half a as wide and IS in ai I 1 cd 11 alve an anster I 1 it t 1 la le bordena bv be tl fi reef met oldia Is hole bale at low ion tub and ad too tar lie of which is a a beach of bif tile c coial 1 1 sand d the beach above aboa tide leel is cavend d with fill coconut pet a S interspersed with pun dama and ther other true suit and shrubs back of tile the locknut plain rises do of to tall coral anol summit U Is t the pic phosphate phat his sid which Is covered by a forest of evet ever glean trees press it the most at co common m one being the with handsome dir d ir grec breen lenses resembling laurel hural ond ad diw lra vs a if like or inge a bi blossoms a in the cant center of one end of th the island Is 11 a 1 niall 1111 in lacan eur rounded mou by coconut inora amr I 1 he broad plateau IB 11 inhabited lie as the III mill under the commit coconut tores |