The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1915-07-13

4 Belgium. There is no lack of zinc ore
II is said, but the smelling works oi
| this country have not been adequate to
cope with the supply. Meanwhile zinc
has been advancing by leaps and
bounds, rising from a before-the-war
price of $110 a ton to the recent quo
tation of nearly $575. Since the inter
vention of the government the price
has fallen back to about $475.
No difficulty is anticipated regarding
nickel, which is a wartime essential in
| the manufacture of steel and for other
purposes. The sources of supply. New
| Caledonia and Canada, are in the hands
OF the allies, and the position is com
paratively simple.
Lead comes from the United States
Spain and Australia, and with the seas
plies needed will be Forthcoming, al
| though prices have recently advanced
sharply. --. +
Anthony. which is used to harden
bullets, was formerly imported mainly
| from France, but that country is now
using practically all it can produce
| and England and Russia are obtaining
their supplies from the far east
Copper comes to England from the
United States, Chile. Spain. and Aus
| metal is in regard to the price, which
has risen in price from $500 q ton a
year ago to recent quotations as high
as $40.
4
Petrograd, June 16.--Prince Scherba-
| ton, the new minister of the interior
| in recent speech to a gathering OF
newspaper men, who were invited to
the home Office, said that he did not
believe in heavy lettering of the
and declared that he purposed to ask
representatives of the war office, the
] admiralty and the ministry OF the
interior to discuss the whole question
| with the leading newspaper editors, in
an effort to reach more satisfactory
arrangement than that in force at
present.
The mere fact that the minister per-
sonally met and talked with the repre-
sentatives of the newspapers marks a
4 surprising departure from tradition.
| Sydney, Australia, June i8.--An iron
and steel works, representing an out
lay of over $7,000,000 has Just been
opened az Port Waratah, near New
castle, New South Wales, by means OF
which Australia hopes eventually tc
become independent of foreign coun-
tries in the matter of iron and steel
The opening of the new plant was
regarded as an event of great import
country and was made a formal occa-
sion at which speeches were made by
number of distinguished men. The
works are located at the outlet of the
gest in the southern hemisphere.
Port Waratah Is to become the CEN
ter of other industries allied to the
manufacture of iron and steel prod
ucts. The iron ore for the mills will
come from Iron Knob, half way across
the Australian continent, where depos-
it's carrying 6S per cent of metallic
iron are sufncient to last for many
generations.
All the machinery In the works is OF
American make and about fifty work.
men from the United States are en-
gagged, chiefly for training the Austria
Ian workmen in modern methods of
steel making.
Freiburg. Germany, June 24.-The
famous old University of Freiburg this
year has only 2,203 registered students
as against 3.178 last year, and OF this
years number 1,7s6 are In the army
and Red Cross service. This year there
are but twenty foreigners enrolled at
the university, including three Amer
leans. The institutions honor roll in
cludes three professors. three assist
ants, and 1T students who have fallen
for the fatherland.
Berlin, June 26.--The same mail
which recently brought scores OF let
ters of congratulation to Crown Prin-
cess Cecilie on the birth OF her daugh-
ter, Princess Alexandrina Irene. also
brought a misdirected letter from a
soldier. 1t was directed to the army
headquarters in Berlin, and read:
May I please have eight days fur
Tough, since my wife is about to have
The crown princess Mas not content