FAMINE IN IRON
JAPANESE ANXIETY. SIGNIFICANT FACTS PRODUCED. Every Scrap of Metal Has Market Value. Press Association—Copyright. Received 11.50 a.m. Tokic, 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 owner of a big concern who are building a twelve-floor building in Tokio considered and declined a proposal to resell the iron framework at a huge profit. The construction of Government building is ceasing. Osaka manufacturers, with considerable chagrin, declined a ten-million-yen order for railway equipment. Latin American diplomats in Tokio are helping the Japanese to comb Latin America for scrap-iron. Every scrap of metal here now has a market value—even razor blades and sardine tins.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 415, 23 April 1937, Page 5
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137FAMINE IN IRON Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 415, 23 April 1937, Page 5
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