[27] This amount has since been more than doubled.

[28] By the contract already mentioned which expired in 1922.

[29] Revue Universelle, October 15, 1920.

[30] They did not sacrifice themselves for nothing!

[31] Report of the American Director of the Bureau of Mines, Van H. Manning, to the Secretary of State for the Interior.

[32] Times, April 6, 1921.

[33] In reality, at the date of this Note, the United States were only producing 64 per cent., and a great part of this output is in British hands (Royal Dutch-Shell).

[34] The question, however, has not been settled as they desired.