THE RAW RUBBER EXPORT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 8, 11 January 1915, Page 4

THE RAW RUBBER EXPORT.

The prohibition of the export of raw rubber from Great Britain came none too soon. The enemy was being help- 1 ed from England herself, according to the London correspodnent of “Capi-| tal.” In October a small cargo of rubber left an East Coast .port, after eluding the Customs authorities, to | cross the North Sea. But a British man-o’-war overhauled the ship, and at once ordered it back to discharge the cargo. This helping of the enemy 1 in England is in striking contrast to ( , Belgian patriotism. Even Antwerp —next to London one of the largest] rubber markets for selling and ware-] bousing rubber—took good care that the predatory Prussian should find no rubber there. It was all successfully removed to London before the forts were captured by the enemy. Germany will be terribly hard hit ifj her rubber supplies are stopped. It is said that the Kaiser has implored!, the famous chemists to get to work atj once on a synthetic substitute, but j we may with a quiet conscience make the Germans welcome to all the rubber “Made in Germany” that they

can get,