to the people at ‘large, how. systematically the fe 
try in vain to hide behind their phrases of the fight for ‘right ail pee 
the small nations. ae is what the afore said passeak in Schimmel’ cS s hee a 
the French press, which are of interest for our industry. iy 
E. Hugues writes in “L’industrie chimique” of 1st September 1917 under the he 19 
“La Parfumerie” : \ aan a 
“In and round Grasse, transactions to the value of 20 million francs per 
were made before August 1914, of which about half concems the proper flowe ! di tric 
the light hands of the female sores: 
Did the figure of 20 millions decrease since the dcdanauon of wate 
reply with no. Did it increase ¢ A little, perhaps, Ree ea The mes of  stagnat 
is that a competition has begun, the santiineian of which is possible if ae 
well organized for the purpose. ‘We admit that the assertion, Sem Ss exports ce. 
from there on ronda aleaa ways. But they are handicapped. We have availed bist 
| thereof and are in a position to follow up ‘this aavailiany Already on a ‘small 
favoured by the present eients if it took the shape of an ‘interallied cane te 
Here as everywhere, or perhaps more than anywhere else, the Gentian He 
mean underhand work, by undermining everything and spreading unrest ane 2. 
To the sun, to the climate that bade him stop, he replied: “be it so” , but nwardl 
he smiled mockingly, saying to himself: il shall organize to 7 advantage”, Lee 
decimetres long! se 
Léss science, hang it! 
figures, these kites with which the German darkened the sky 0 of his i 
manceuvres 2” Tan: 
1) Deutsche Parf.-Ztg. 4 (1918), 65, 83. 
