A SPELTER SCANDAL.

Colonist, Volume LVII, Issue 13825, 21 July 1915, Page 6

A SPELTER SCANDAL.

ENGLISH MARKETS CONTROLLED

BY GERMANS

PRIVATE LONSDALF/S CASE

London, July 20. (Received July 20, U.£G i>.m.?

The "Financial News," & a. ** a de7 'lieaded 'The Spi>H er says that fVanki'ort firms, through puppets in Britain and elsewhere, .still control the market. There is no -valid reason for the high prices of lead and spelter. While tho British price for spelter is about £100, our enemies pay less than £40. The "Financial News" demands that the Government commandeer all metals. Private Lousdale, a prisoner in Ger-1 many, who was sentenced to death in j April for assaulting a guard, has written to his wife stating that liis sen-! tence has been commuted in fifteen .years' imprisonment. H& ends his letter: "Cheer up, it's only 770 Sundays ."

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