VARIOUS CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 17595, 6 March 1914, Page 6

VARIOUS CABLES

KILLKD WITH A CROWBAR. By Telegraph —Press Assn. —Copyright. ST. PKTFR.SBURG. March t. The foreman of the shrapnel tube section at tltc Pulilo'ff works, actuated by vengeance for a private grievance, killed Captain von Stahl, director of the sec-' lion, with a crowbar and then committed suicide by -jumping into tiie electrical machinery. RUSSIA AND GBR.MANY, ST. PKT BUS BURG. March I. A congress of exporters at Kieff resolved that it was necessary to liberate Russia from economic dependence on Germany as the present treaty was humiliating. They tit god tltc immediate development of commercial relations with Britain, Italy and other countries. PRKSKRVATION OK CORDITK,. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) LONDON. -March 1. Tiie greatest secrecy is maintained regarding n discovery for tbe preservation of cordite from deterioration in hot climates. Tiie treatment base is molybdenum. In view of cordite losses, the French authorities' are inquiring about deposits of molybdenum in Australia. Within -i month the price of the'ore has risen front seventy-five pounds to one hundred and eighteen pounds a ton, but supplies are unobtainable. Molybdenum is a metal of si 1 ver-witito colour, but harder titan silver, which fuses with difficulty, if at. ail. at tiie highest temperature of a wind-furnace. U is chemically related to chromium, tungsten, and uranium. The ores of molybdenum tire somewhat widely diffused, luu rarely occur in any considerable , i titan lily.