Louis Bruneau, Germany in France, 2nd edition, Paris, 1914 (articles in La Grande Revue).
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Germany lacks iron (deposits will be exhausted within 40 years (p. 3))—imports are increasing:
8 | million | tons | in | 1908 | ||
11 | ” | ” | ” | 1911 | (p. 2) |
while in France deposits have been discovered at Meurthe and Moselle—in French Lorraine — — —
Iron output... | 2.6 | million | tons | in | 1890 |
4.4 | ” | ” | ” | 1900 | |
14.8 | ” | ” | ” | 1911 | |
Nancy . . . . . | 200 million tons of ore | ||||
Briey . . . . | 2,000 | ||||
Longwy . . . | 300 | ||||
Crusnes . . . | 500 | ||||
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3,000 million tons of ore (p. 5). |
Deposits discovered in Normandy: 100–700 million tons of ore.
French iron | ore exports to Germany: | |||||
1.7 | million | tons | in | 1909 | ||
2.8 | ” | ” | ” | 1912 | (p. 21). | |
German coal | exports to France: | |||||
1909 | —3 | million | tons | |||
1912 | —5.7 | ” | ” |
A Dutch merchant (Poorter) is buying up land with iron ore deposits in Normandy (already has 3,496 hectares), selling the ore to Germany (pp. 24–25). (Details follow.)
Stinnes and Krupp are buying up iron ore mines (30–31)—partly through Poorter.
Examples of “holdings” and composition of management boards (35)....
...(mostly Frenchmen + Germans)....
Thyssen, growth of his concern, etc.
Examples, composition of boards, financial holdings, etc., etc.
Migration of firms to France, etc.
(See articles on this in La Grande Revue.)
[1] The book was published in 1912.—Ed.
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