IRON FAMINE
IN JAPAN.
.WORLD HUNT FOR SCRAP
(Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn ) TOKIO, 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 owners of the big half-built twelvefloor building in Tokio, considered and declined a proposal to re-sell the iron framework at a huge profit.
The construction of Government buildings is ceasing. Osaka manufacturers with chagrin declined a ten-million yen order for railway equipment. Latin American diplomats in Tokio
arc 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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Grey River Argus, 24 April 1937, Page 2
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