BRITAIN'S MANUFACTURES.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 290, 11 September 1915, Page 2

BRITAIN'S MANUFACTURES.

HOW THEY ARE ABANDONED. Britain’s folloy in allowing liar enormously valuable dye trade to pass, almost entirely into German bauds uas referred to by Mr U. li. f. Barber, chairman of the Wellington Woollen j Company. He pointed out that ovt(r SO ! per cent of tla e world’s dyes were supplied in recent years by Germany, and the sudden,cassation of the output wa s i a serious affair to the textile trade of I the world. Fairly early after the outbreak of hosatlities, 400,000 American workers were thrown out of employment, owinij to shortage cf German dyes. Britain, on the outbreak of war, ' had textiles to the valine of over one hundred m'.)llion s depending on German dyes and chemicals. Even Japan, wjhose beautiful colouring in silks and cottons had been a feature of artistic life for years, depended on Germany for woollen dyes, to thg extent of a million sterling per annum. For the j best part of the last twelve months I woollen manufacturers the wcHd over [ bod had to p-o ba r k twenty-five y°ars and revive old methods of dyeing. England’s free-trade policy had had farreaching effec's, and it would still be defended, no dcubt, by many, despite the fact that because of it, she lost, among others, an industry on which so much of her trade depended. The connection between explosives and aniline and anthracene dyes was close,coal tsjr being the common base, and for months past the enormous dye works of Germany lhad been busy, not on dye wares, hut on high explosives. At one works alone, which in normal times employed 12,000 handle, there were now 18.000 workers engaged, not on tho manufacture cf dyes for industrial pu/rpose-S’ but the making of muriti‘ons to dye Europe red. Meanwhile, British manufacturers were trying to rp-'iir this with otho” nigantic errors', -onk might for a. period have *o rmt ur> with a limited ru-in- of whi L e grey, and black for p-uitings. _____

A WOMAN SNIPER |

One cf the psts in Gulicia is a woman sniper named Marie Dworiecki, a handsome, masculine-looking young peison from Przemysl. Marie Avas in the fortress wjtajen it was in Russian hands. She professed to be Rus'sophile, but i s now believed to be a epy. Encouraged by the Austro-Ger- i man success she deft the town and ' started-sniping on the Russian. com? munications. Two days after Lemberg was taken she .attacked a munition column near Rava Ruska. She has twelve men in her service, and if Marie isn't captured or married shortly, serious tlhings may yet happen to the Russian Army.