The literary digest . nd under various George P. Waller, Jr., writing from Athens to theUnited States Department of Commerce, says of the new gas: This substitute was made absolulely necessary by the im-possibility of obtaining gasoline from the United States and by 23 The Literary Digest for January 18, 1919 the cutting off of Roumanian petroleum products. Roughly,the product is composed of eighty to ninety per cent, of verypure high-proof turpentine, distilled to a high degi-ee of volatil-ity, mixed with ten to twenty per cent, of ether. The turpen-tine used is distilled fr
The literary digest . nd under various George P. Waller, Jr., writing from Athens to theUnited States Department of Commerce, says of the new gas: This substitute was made absolulely necessary by the im-possibility of obtaining gasoline from the United States and by 23 The Literary Digest for January 18, 1919 the cutting off of Roumanian petroleum products. Roughly,the product is composed of eighty to ninety per cent, of verypure high-proof turpentine, distilled to a high degi-ee of volatil-ity, mixed with ten to twenty per cent, of ether. The turpen-tine used is distilled from resin from the pine foiests of Greece,and the ether is also produced from native sources. Properlyblended and used in an automobile or any internal combustionengine, this mixtm-e gives very satisfactory results. Acomparativeh^ large amount of carbon deposit collects in thecylinders, but this is easily removed. Owing to the fact thatautomobile - owners in Greece are dra^vn from the wealthv FIVE TALKS OVER ONE WIRE G. British cli I il 1 I 1 i ( 1 \ 1 1 t I I \ i 11 I u 1 ^ 1 u I « 1 N u \PITS DUG TO ENGULF TANKS. classes, no attempt has been made to loAver the cost of iiroductionof this fuel. TRYING TO STOP THE TANKS—During the last days ofthe war the Germans tried in numerous ways to hamper thetank fleets of the Allied forces. There is no mistaking the fact,says a writer in The Scientific American (New York, December14), that they finally came to appreciate the effectiveness of thetank; and their ridiculing of the tank idea for so long onlyserved to make it impossil)le for them to catch up A\ath theAllies in this branch of modern warfare. He goes on: Among the numerous devices of the Germans to halt theadvance of tank fleets were nests of pits in frout of their posi-tions, of the kind shown in the accompanying pits, of several feet in depth, were covered over Avith a lightwooden framework and camouflaged canvas so as to lead a tankpilot to believe that s
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