CANADIAN- CASUALTIES
By Telegraph—Press Association—OopyrijM ("Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services.) ' London, October 28. 'A! Toronto message states that tho Canadian casualties total 15,177, including 677 officers..
An interesting lecture on "Science and Invention in Relation to War]' was delivered before, a good audience in the Muncipal Concert Chamber last evening by Professor Easterfield. The lecturer said that the chemist, in regard to war dealt with food, clothing, metals, alloys, carbons, searchlights, explosives, asphyxiating gases, etc. He showed how steel had to bo treated differently according to whether it was to bo used for shells, gun barrels, cartridge cases, or swords. Experiments in asphyxiating gases were made by tho lecturer, who also exploded by wireless a charge of fulminating mercury in a block'of wood. For this purpose ho had a wireless station at either end of the Chamber. The wood was shattered into small pieces. He described the different kinds of shells —liow tlioy acted and how they were made. At the conclusion of the lecture, which was delivered under the auspices of the Workers' Educational Association, Professor Easterfield was accorded a hearty vote of thanks.
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Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2606, 30 October 1915, Page 6
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185CANADIAN- CASUALTIES Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2606, 30 October 1915, Page 6
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