DENTISTRY IN METALS.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 31 July 1915, Page 2

DENTISTRY IN METALS.

The.l fuse, gives some idea of tliej ioanplexity of the- -whole prosess of shell making. In the automatic rooms more than human in their intelligence perform the most delicate dentistry in metals —they wrought out. nuts and bolts with bewildering noises and speed. The fuse contains 15 or 16 different parts, which are produced by ? these m&chinejs and assembled s>y hand SERBIA REVIVED. Professor R. A. Reiss, of the University of Lausanne, who has returned to Serbia after an absence of four months writes to the 'Gazette de Lausanne': from Grajujevac that he finds the country and nation greatly changed for th.e better, thanks to the aid of England and France. The Army is stronger, better equipped, and has p'euty of ammunition and guns, all of which it lacked before. The morale of the Serbian troops is splendid, and the Army Is now ready to attack. OFFICERS AND THE WAR. The London correspondent of the "Dispatch" says: In a train to Tun-j bridge Wrills.i was interested in a conversation between two young officers. Said one, wo belonged to a famous London Territorial corps: ."Do you talk about the war in ycu/r battalion?" "Hardly cfver," answered the other; "as a matter of fact, there are so many other things to.learn and think about." "We also find plenty else to do,", said the first soldie,r. "I didn't know till yestejrday, that Italy had come in." I' am told that this absorption in what is going on in one's own battalion, company, or platoon is pretty general throughout the new army. It is a good sign. THE SON OF A KINGDescribing the departure of Italians ! from Victoria Station, London, for th6[! front, a writer in a contemporary says: ' One of th e reservists shouted his fare-. wells in broad Scotch. He was the , most Italian-looking of the, mall —a real bit or picturesque Naples, his full ojive face under a green vevet hat. It was rather a shock when one tried him with one's painful Italian to hear this: "Na mon, ah'm from Aberdeen. My fathers.the king of Scotland. Ah'm a light-weight wrestling champion myseF." This Scottish-Ital- j ian went-home-a few. years .ago to! put in his military training (they have ! all done two years in thq Italian army. AN ARMY IN THEMSELVES- | •The statement that there are 800,000 I Italian reservists in the United States ! is probably no exaggeration. At the census of 1810 the American popula- j tion of Italian birth amounted to 1,343,070. This total must have been largely increased by subsequent immigration, as there arrived from Italy 215,537 j persons in 1910, 132,882 in 1911, 157.134 j in 1912, 265542 in'l9l3 and 283,728 in! 1914. Some deduction must, of course, j be made from these figures to aFow for those immigrants—of whose numher thqre are no exact statistics —who ! have afterwards returned to their na-1 tive country.