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Taranaki Daily News, 18 August 1916, Page 5

"Enjsk lias solved two of her mostpressing problems—tl»e disposal of 140,■ooo,ooogal of 1 vodka stored up sinoe 'the decree forbidding Ub use, and the obtailing of rubber, by putting them together. With keenest interest experts Witched the investigations conducted by the famous chemist Ostvomisslenski, of Moscow, in the making of rubber with the aid of alcoh»l. Upon careful examination it was found not only that hia experiments were absolutely successful, but that the rubber could be manufactured from certain vegetable oils, suck as hempseed oil and rapeseed oil, and that the vodka could bo used to soctire the large amount of alcohol needed as a solvent in the process. . . Synthetic or artificial rubber ha 9 been a 3ream of chemists for many years, as the demands upon the rfatural nrticlo have been enormous both for automobile and electrical industries. It has never been deem.d successful.. Six months ago it was announced in Germany that a svnthrtic rubber had been produced, and " thnt, while it was of poorer grade, still, could be used. The details of the Russian »"0cess have not been made public, font it is one of the variations of the product .on made by the exudation or 'blowing of heavy vegetable oils. The reports of t, 19 Moscow chemist tell of a rubber oi?*i li| not superior to the natural arli?iX*~« Export American Industries, ' A sneeze leads to a Cough'. SYKES'S CURA COUQII Ipods to a Curt, "hel