PRODUCTION OF DYES
GERMAN TRADE SECRETS OBTAINED.
(Rec. January 10, 11.55 p.m.) London, January 10. The "Daily Mail" states that after two years' persistent effort, a group of British textile workers, headed by Messrs. John Loyland and Richard Baldry, vtfth the 'assistance of the Foreign Office, lias obtained in Switzerland i 257 secret recipes of the Dadische dyeworks, comprising the German dyo monopoly. Thousands were speut and great risks were taken during long- , drawn-out negotiations .with a Swiss chemist, who was in possession of the recipes.' German agents everywhere dogged the party, stealing luggage, drugging, assaulting, and making laboratory tests dnngerous. When the ■ recipes and samples were obtained, the Foreign Office forwarded them to England with the utmost secrecy, and lodged them in a bank's strong-room. Used in manufacturing in Bradford and Manchester, thej answer all tests, producing a whob range of dyes hitherto exclusively German.—United Service.
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Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 92, 11 January 1918, Page 5
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147PRODUCTION OF DYES Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 92, 11 January 1918, Page 5
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