JAPANESE IRON SHORTAGE
EXTRAORDINARY SITUATION REPORTED TOKYO, April 22. The Emperor is anxious about the shortage of iron and he has commanded the Minister for Commerce and Industry to report on the situation to the throne. That there is an iron famine is illustrated by the following facts z— The owners of a big half-built twelve-floor building in Tokyo considered and declined a proposal to resell the iron frame-work at a huge profit; the construction of Government buildings is ceasing; the Osaka manufacturers, with chagrin, declined a 10,000,000 yen order for railway equipment; Latin-American diplomats in Tokyo are 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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Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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124JAPANESE IRON SHORTAGE Southland Times, Issue 23182, 24 April 1937, Page 7
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