Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1915 — USE ABSINTHE IN EXPLOSIVE [ARTICLE]

USE ABSINTHE IN EXPLOSIVE

French Are Now Utilizing Barred Drink In Manufacture of Guncotton. Paris. —Absinthe, placed under a ban for drinking purposes by the law passed early in the war, is being used in the manufacture of guncotton. A co-operative distillery at Pontolse, which has been extracting alcohol from beet roots for the use of the gov eminent munition factories, found the supply of beet root Insufficient and is now taking over the stocks of absinthe held in warehouses. Government In* spectors watch the transfoimation of the absinthe into alcohol.