NAZI GRIP

Patea Mail, 3 January 1941, Page 3

NAZI GRIP

ON FINNISH NICKEL German , interests in Finnish nickel mines are increasing steadily, it is learned from reliable sources in Holsi ugf ors. A now company, it is understood, is being formed to work nickel deposits recently discovered at Lcvitunturi, in Petsamo Province in the far north of Finland. A controlling majority of shares in this will be Feld by the I. G. Fabcmndhstric, the big German chemical trust. Tho nickel and copper mines at Nivala, south of Uloaborg, wore recently taken over by the Outokumpu Company. This is controlled by the Finnish Government, but German interests have important holdings in it.