The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-02-18
|II[ DRASTIC STEPS
FIJI POWDER SCANDAL
s,,nct Marine officials Order
|n,lv Examination of War
ships Supplies.
Nv GEORGE puFREsNE.

c,n,s 10 The Tribune,
Fan 'saRIs, Feb. 1.-The soverDnsn
Ian drastic step in connection
!. ~ Dowder scandal. At a prlVy
y ~ r,sotjne held at the Elysee pal.
'ls. =. otbsr dav the president of the
..sI. MI signed document which put.
osy the engineers responsible
I, ~ N government powder stores,
. iii be remembered that Major
.,,r WAS ordered by the munster
'',r;D, TO verify the condition OF the
-, IN the stores. The inquiry, Que
I, d. 0,pcr5 states today. Is decisive
I. =, -. nondcrs are suspected, The
" y. s.,are was affected in such a
pp,s , ,s,, i was impossible TO declare
q, '",, !. s;Oplc quantity of powder was
,sprosch. 1t is stated that IN al
.,o,ss thc same error was com
~ s, and that the minister or marine
p's s.su' su1 his len davs after the blow
/, m Of The Libcrtc, 49,
. 4, W pSl,assc Vi ,hcu inquired into the
4 = csNdcr supplied 10 the marine ana
- lyS ,Sst . 0,,sntity bearing the date
= h,S beeu mixed with the powder
--sisrhrcd in 1906. This was re-
q ~ inc marine. 1t was again
n rith new powder aud passed OIL
n. system. NC arc told, was car
A ., until 1911. There Is no aIiega-
4 Il sabotage; it is a question of a
Galiiie error. b,.
7ia evil is now being rcmedled, put
n calculated that 1t will take from
',l..h 10 eighteen months before the
|oD tons OF powder necessary lor the
q, ,su be manufactured. Nj. Del
q, has given orders that tue powder
hard ba.ileships shall he cNanlncd
m and that all the magazines shall
ricoronsy inspected ono by one.
IT, orders arc now being carried out.
|,cgis spend two ar three hours every
Il ID yerifvinq the powder. When ma
4 silccrs lind that other measures
nurity should he taken they are
|rc to report ut ouce The officers
4 lsat everything possible has been
- and that ii any uncertainty re-
En, il is not due TO men but 10
~.
|jfr credit for 22,O0O.OO0 francs
IA for a7iation bv NJ. MiIlerand
aEgcsied lhc plan of creating a
<jnmi Of ayiaiors. Tho regiment
Be- snail. Il might he called the
ipeni Of tho Four Hundred. but 1t
. b BE- Of tho first. The second and
itrd viii no doubt follow. The
y has. il seems. been discussed at
rls'Hg of the superior council OF
4 q liz Elyscc. AMI has been APP
Id Of by N. FullicrcS. The coun-
}etded 10 order at once 32S mono.
s aud bipIanes for army use.
tsnd frpgir shops arc 70 be cs,'ab.
10 oil parts of the country An
pa ground is 70 be prepared near
q fortified place and military
a, iqr Shich the one already OK
~ 81 fplnal is 10 he model, 1t
f' some eighty acrcs without any
Prlr.
pve'euf there arc six companies
Pea specially with avIa.ion. and
t9gfanles will he multiplied.
WI lcrm the aviation section
E'te TO cacl garrison. fort or mill
amp. Just rs the sappcrs do not
regiment IN the real sense of
so''. aud ye- have the name OF
kncnl, and M a similar manner .'he
VII be gwen TO The new rcgi-
~ .fp Inc returns of the last census,
n',f iust been published. those
% ngbt'ng against race suicide
y lncl,ncd 10 believe that ihcir
apaa Is bearing fruit. The cen
laSrn every five wears IN
rlen, pga goo 'hc population il given
Ia rS;ls"p, NJ compared with 80.
,n l9O6. The figures. which
's, 'ur population Of Corsica, show
,aN oil 54g.9Gi The increase
ssu.' n's,' Stlll. those who are
6s i @ ,nal more encouragement
j;t. Ti''n 10 parents who have
a. ,s, Gi. L,e1Iolcc that the tide has
slr baD r"' 'ne depopulatiou of ,.he
nas becn arrested.
'''e III The population from