The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-31
CERMANY'S IRON
 STEAL AND COAL
Copyright, 1919, By The Information al News Bureau, Inc.) (By NAZARIENNE DAMN KENNI-
 BEIIIE.)

I have been able to obtain from
 a member of the British Financial
 Commission who has been employed
 in examining the German industrial
 situation and the method by which
 the indemnity can best be paid, some
 important facts and figures relating to the German iron, steel, and coal
 trade in the future, and the effect the
 cession of some of her territories
 under the Peace Treaty will have 1 Though the area of the fringes of
 territory which will be stripped from the former empire is comparatively small, they were, as is known, among the most important for industrial purposes, and their loss is likely to have a. shattering effect on the whole German economic system. As an ex- porting country of iron, steel, and machinery, she is, in fact, likely to drop quickly to secondary rank. The figures given me are as fo1lows:-
 By the loss of Upper Se1esia and Alsace-Lorraine, Germany loses 32- ' per cent. ofs her coal output; 72.4 par cent. of her iron ore; 74.7 per
 cent. of her zinc; and SIS per cent.
 Of her blast furnaces It has been es- t1mated that the cession of territory to France, apart from the loss of up- per Silesia, will reduce Germany's an-
 nual pre-war productions of steel in
 gots from 2o,000,000 to 14,00O,0OO,
 and increase Frances capacity from
 5,00o,0o0 tons to 100000 tons
 These figures if they are accurate, show at once that as an exporting
 country for iron and steel products Germany must cease to be important
 Out of a total output of zinc of 3O1,-
 521 tons in 1912, BELTS tons came
 from Upper Silesia, and this loss is
 equally important from the view point
 of manufactures. The figures for the
 blast furnaces in 1911 are: Saar and
 Lorraine S1, Upper Silesia 37-a loss of HIS out of a total in the empire of -213, and of iron and steel foun- dries, Al will be lost out of 1,4S9. In 1913 the German export of iron goods, including in plates, etc, was over S333,000,0O0 equal to 322 per cent. of her total exports; and the export of machinery and parts, in cluding motor cars, was over S1S5,- 100000, equal to 7.5 per cent. of her total exports. Coal, coke, and bri- quettes formed per cent. and woolen and cotton goods about 59 per cent. and 5.6 per cent.
 Loss of Capacity to Export
 It will be seen at once that, as re-
 gards the principal ategories-name- ", machinery, iron goods, and coal Germany's capacity to export will be greatly diminished as the result of the territorial sessions and. even if, as is probably so, she imports iron ore from Alsace-Lorraine and Upper Silesia to be worked up, she will be unable to compete in the worlds
 markets on the same scale as former ly. In addition to her own supplies, she imported for manufacture in 1913 over $55,000,00O worth of iron ore, equal to 2.1 per cent of her total inn ports, and 1t was from Great Britain that she was the largest importer The figures of our exports and inn ports have been stated frequently in tariff controversies, but in view of the new situation, they may be re- peated. In 1913 they were:-To Ger many. s21S,750, 900, from Germany S355, 100000. Our country was both