FRANCE'S IN
PARIS, Oct. 2. — Iron ore, which
was one of the stumbling blocks en
countered in the negotiation of peace
between France and Germany in 1871,
is likely to cause stout contention in
the eventual settlement of accounts
between the belligerents in this war.
If Germany is not beaten into com
plete submission, it is expected in
France that her delegates will stand
out stubbornly for the ambitions of
those industrial representatives who
recently demanded "the establishment
of military frontiers that will give Ger
many the mining regions that are in
dispensable for the devolpment of the
empire."
The "mining regions” referred to in
this quotation from the resolutions of
a German industrial committee, are
the 105,0<t0 acres of French iron land
of the Kriey basin, adjoining the iron
lands of annexed Lorraine just across
the frontier. They produce fifteen
million tons of ore per year — 80 per
cent of France’s total production; they
furnish a livelihood to 22,000 miners
ami steel and iron industries depend
ing upon them give employment to
115,000 iron workers. Without them
•France's industries would be para
lyzed for years to come, if not per
manently disabled.
If the allies are able to dictate the
terms, the French delegates will in
sist upon the return to France of the
part of Lorraine that was taken from
her in 1871, with the iron lands from
which in 1913 Germany took twenty
one million tons of ore — more than
75 per cent of her total production and
60 per cent of her total consumption.
Lorraine, in the French point of
view, no longer represents a mere sen
timent; the sentiment exists, but
along with it is the great object les
son of the war Germany’s forty
five years of military preparation, in
which the mines of Lorraine played a
f—'
leading role. I
If Prance is today obliged to cry
for "more cannon, more ammunition,"
it is, in the estimation of French spe
cialists, because Germany took from
France with Lorraine mineral resour
ces to which she owes 60 per cent
or more of the development of her
iron and steel industries since 1871.
Besides the ore bearing lands that
were finally deeded to Germany, Bis
marck demanded in exchange for an
extension of the territory left around
Belfort all of the iron ore region of
j Aumetz, Villerupt and Otange, be
I tween Briey and Longwy. But Bis
J marck had to do in these negotiations
. with a clever Norman, Monsieur Aug
( ust Pouyer-Quertier, Thiers' minister
i of finance, who fought desperately
and cleverly to save something of
France’s future in the iron industry.
The discussion finally came down to
Villerupt.
"Prince, I give you my word of
honor that I never would think of ob
lining you to become a Frenchman,
yet you insist upon my becoming a
German,” Pouyer-Quertier remarked.
"How is that?” replied Bismarck.
"I do not understand you. Who talks
of annexing Normandy?"
“I am one of the principal owners
of the Vlllerupt rolling mills,” re
joined the minister. "You see clearly
that you are making a German of
me by insisting upon Villernpt."
“Oh, very well,” said Bismarck. “I
leave you Villerupt, but do not ask
anything more of me, or I will take
it back."
That was practically all that France
saved of its iron industry, as it ex
isted at the beginning of the Franco
Prussian war. France's production of
steel and Iron would still be insignifi
cant had not an obscure English clerk
named Thomas, discovered a process
of dephosporizing iron ore which he
sold for £50 to a man who realized
three millions out of it.
That discovery made available for
the iron industry deposits of ore in
the Brioy basin that were previously
considered useless. Prospecting in
that regian began in 1882 and in 1913
there were 16 different mining con
cessions in operation, producing a to
tal of fifteen million tons of iron ore
per year. By doubling the intensity
of production these mines could pro
duce thirty million tons per year for
a period of at least eighty years, and
probably 100 years. At the present
rate of production, fifteen millions a
year, added to the production of the
part of Ixirraine abandoned to Ger
many after the war of 1870, would
produce thirty-six million tons, which
is seven million tons more than the
total output of German owned mines
at the outbreak of the | ‘esent war.
In addition to this ill, the re
gion of Longwy pro-wces two million
seven hundred and fifty thousand
tons, Nancy two million tons, making
a total in all of French Lorraine of
twenty million tons, thus surpassing
all told by four million tons the actual
consumption of Germany, including
seven million tons a year imported
front the Luxembourg.
The greater intensity of exploita
tion of the mines on the German side
of the frontier leads to the supposi
tion that their ultimate exhaustion
is far nearer than that of the French
owned mines.
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