METAL FAMINE.

Grey River Argus, 5 November 1928, Page 3

METAL FAMINE.

RUSIA’S PREDICAMLN<. (Time* Cable.? LONDON ,November 3. Th? “Times’s” Riga correspondent states that the Soviet’s Supreme Economic Council has appealed to all Soviet organisations and private persoh? to use greater efforts to collect old iron. A public announcement declares the seriousness of the metal famine has uot been realised. The production of the Soviet blast furnaces is over twenty P ’r cent below pile-war production. Nine hundred thousand tons of old iron must be gathered, of w’hich railways and shipping should yield one third. The railways have been ordered to give it procedure to all othler freights.