IRON SHORTAGE IN JAPAN
Razor Blades & Sardine Tins in Demand THE EMPER0R W0RRIED (Received 23, 11.50 a.m.) TOKIO, April 22. The Emperor is anxious about the iron shortage and has commanded the Minister of Commerce and Industry to report on the situation to the Throne. That there is an iron famine is illustrated by the following facts:— - The owners of a big, half-built 12-floor building in Tokio considered. and declined a proposal to resell the iron framework at a huge proflt, The construction of Government buildings is ceasing. Osaka manufacturers with chagrin declined a ten million yen order for railway eqnipment. Latin American diplomats in Tokio are helping a Japanese combination in America .to buy scrap iron. Every scrap of metal here now has a market value, even . razor blades and sardine tins.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 82, 23 April 1937, Page 5
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