Show MAKING POWDER WIT WITHOUT COTTON T 14 german experiments with substitutes utes fol fok cotton in making mayfing gun powder have been so successful that for eight months no nd cotton has been used this statement was made by the th e president of the bremer bremen chamber of 0 commerce to a con ven bention on of merchants IT T hive have had the opportunity to establish officially that for eight months not a kilogram of cotton has been used for formaa mak ing powder lie he said thinks to german science and industry we have succeeded in winning from froin the immeasurable supply of germin german forests fores tsa cellular material which Is cheaper and better suited for powder making tha Ji cotton even after the war ge german ammunition factories will not buy another bale 0 of f cotton cotto h from Ar arriela rieka The second important ingre adient saltpetre is now manufactured exclusively in germany from the air our factories aheady abeso areso are so advanced that in the spring they will be able tolover to cover th the entire require requirements rents of nitrogen trogen and it if the war lasts they will even beAle be able to export this product th e speak a eralso asserted that camphor for seven years vears produced ro synthetically from american as now now obtained by chemical 1 maahs fromson turpentine aft after r the fhe war there will be no more importation of khamphor champ hor from japan or tur turpentine peIne from america |