"WITH HIS OWN PETARD"

Dominion, Volume 11, Issue 209, 23 May 1918, Page 5

"WITH HIS OWN PETARD"

FRENCH DEVELOP INDUSTRY ! STARTED BY GERMAN CAPITAL.

\n interesting account of tho revival of the iron industry of Calvados is sent bj Router's special correspondent witn tlio Flench Amy. He shows how an enterprise begun by Germany before the war, & now being used against her He writes s In 1912 tho Prussian coal and iron mnenate, August Thyssen, bought the, St Soumont Mine, near Caon.. His Mention was to set up smeting, works at Caen itself, and ship theire <tomedl»toG«ma..rii.hta which'would bring back Wostpiialian C About J3.00U.000 had been expended trhon tho irir came. Herr Thyssen s property was sequestrated; but his place was faken by the famous firms of Schneider $Tcr«U and W^L kmt is now practically complete.. Soon ■Ihi manufacture of steel will be in full Wast The -vorks cover a thousand acres of ground on tho banks of tho Caon Ship Tho'German steel barons are now seriouelv arguing that as Franco possesses the iron ores of Normandy she ought to surrender tho Briey mining basin to them. .

Tho American Government is eroctinß "somewhere' in France" a cold-storage warehouse, in which 10.000 tons of meat and produce for her soldiers can be ltept. Several large pacldnsr concerns in America luiv© co-operated with the Government .in planning tho details of tho plant..