METALS FOR WAR
•GERMAN PURCHASES
| sources of supply; j: (Received May 15, 9 a.m.) LONDON, May 14. Mr. George Bishop, who is investigate ing re-armament for a House of Cbmmons group, in his preliminary report, shows that the German output of crude steel increased from 11,000,000 tons in 1934 to 23,000,000 tons in 1938. Sweden supplied 'Germany with 9,000,000 tons of iron ore in 1937. Hence | the Reich's desire for a pact with ScandJJnavia. France supplied 5,0pO,00O; and the United States sold to Germany 420,462^ tons of scrap in 1938; Belgium' 197,000. tons and the United Kingdom 84,000, over 50 per cent.
German imports of manganese came from Sbuth Africa between 1933 and 1938. Mr. Bishop adds that if foreign countries had not. supplied Germany with war metals, Germany would have been helpless..
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 9
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133METALS FOR WAR Evening Post, Volume CXXVII, Issue 112, 15 May 1939, Page 9
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