SAVING SCRAP METAL

Evening Star, Issue 16550, 9 October 1917, Page 1

SAVING SCRAP METAL

FROM EUROPE'S BATTLEFIELDS. Considerable speculation has been going the rounds as to the amount of scrap iron and steel that is accumulating on tho battlefields of Europe, and how it is to be disposed of. American companies which regularly deal in such old material have for some time been looking forward to the harvest to bo reaped, from these battlefields after the war. These hopes have been rather rudely shocked lately by observers recently returned from tne front, who state that this matter is now being handled by the respective Governments. According to the systems now established in modern warfare, it is stated that a salvage corps is daily going over all the "round near the battle front exposed to fire, and is gathering all the 'debris discarded by the contending None of the scrap is neglected with steel worth 2 to 3 cents per lb and copper and other metals in proportion. All the metals are taken to shops in the rear, and there worked over to be cast into other various metal munitions that a modern army uses. All the lead that is fired is practically lost, as a bullet travelling at a velocity o'f 2.000 ft or more per second buries itself so deep into any object it hits as to be lost entirely. Other metals, however, such as tangled steel from wrecked motor cars, largo pieces of shell, bits of copper, pieces of aluminium, etc., are carefully collected, and later turned into usable condition.