JAPAN SHORT OF IRON
THE EMPEROR ANXIOUS EVEN SARDINE TINS HAVE MARKET VALUE Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright TOKIO, April 22. (Received April' 23, at 10.15 a.m.) 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-door building in Tokio considered! and declined a proposal to resell the iron frame work at a huge profit; construction of Government buildings is ceasing; Osaka manufacturers with chagrin declined a 10,000,000 yen order for railway equipment ; Latin American diplomats in Tokio are helping the Japanese to comb Latin America for scrap iron; every scrap of nSetal here now has a market value, even razor blades and sardine tins.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/ESD19370423.2.91
Bibliographic details
Evening Star, Issue 22630, 23 April 1937, Page 9
Word Count
138JAPAN SHORT OF IRON Evening Star, Issue 22630, 23 April 1937, Page 9
Using This Item
Allied Press Ltd is the copyright owner for the Evening Star. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons New Zealand BY-NC-SA licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Allied Press Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in