A JAPANESE SECRET.

North Otago Times, Volume CIV, Issue 13662, 2 September 1916, Page 2

A JAPANESE SECRET.

HOW THE HUN WAS TOILED. ~'A contemporary suggests. that the newEussian explosive is an improved kind of Shiniose powder, which the '.Japanese 'used with such' deadly effect in the Russo-Japanese -war. For -years' ■the Germans made every attempt to discover' th% secret' of 'this -explosive. ,On one occasion some-German naval jiffice'rs' were"'visiting"'a Japanese arsenal, and they were, all most anxious to sec the Shimosc 'powder. -No. objec-tion-was '.raised,' and -a- sample was brought, out, for .their',inspection, A .Gornian :.c.oiiuiiander, when he thought he was not observed, grabbed as much as' he. c.otf id. conveniently hide in his hand,V:aJidi in, twenty-four hours or so a'special messenger left by the first outgoing.liner with, the precious sample ■addressed the-Wiihelmstrasse; • Some weeks later, whenhis squadron put into a European port, • the commander re'"ceive'd a'".dispateh inquiring in' the best Official German what the blazes ho meant by trying, to pull, 'i-hi leg of the ■Wiihelmstrasse authorities, as the sample, of Shim'ose.'he.ha'd sent'by special ; messenger was- composed of harmless materials .coloured by a little mustard.