Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1916 — Explosives From Gas Plants. [ARTICLE]

Explosives From Gas Plants.

British local authorities have been notified by the war office that owing to the demand for benzol and toluol for the manufacture of explosives it has “been found necessary to require gas undertakings throughout the kingdom to extract these constituents from their gas, thereby in some cases affecting the illuminating power of the gas and its calorific power. It is urged by the war office that municipal councils should do everything in their power to prevent attacks on gas undertakings, owing to possible deterioration of the gas supplied, and that this could best be done by ceasing to test gas altogether, or by preventing results of the test being made public.