RAW MATERIALS DECREASE
FRENCH ECONOMY AFFECTED (8.0. W.) RUGBY, January 14. The Swiss newspaper “Tribune de Geneve" says: "Economy in France is seriously affected by an increasing dearth of raw materials. The Government’s decision to close almost all factories for 10 days is only the beginning of a crisis which will grow if the war lasts much longer." A Stockholm newspaper says there is a shortage of iron in France, though not in industries working for Germany. Iron supplies for inland civil use, which were 350,000 tons before the war, will be cut down to 145,000 tons in the spring, and are now 210,000 tons, while the present consumption is estimated at 230,000 tons a month.
In Germany itself there is a great shortage in the labour reserve in industries. according to a broadcast from Frankfurt. "In mining the reserves are decreasing to a frightening degree.” it was said. “The builAig industry, agriculture, and craftsmanship, especially in the country, are jobs which do not seem desirable to young people, but what is the good of all the work done for farmers if they are short of craftsmen?”
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23538, 16 January 1942, Page 6
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