The Future of the Iron and Steel Industry in Lorraine

Abstract

DURING the spring of last year two Commissions were appointed by the Minister of Munitions to visit and report upon certain steel-producing areas in Western Europe. One of them visited the steel works in Lorraine and certain parts of the Saar Valley, the other journeying to the occupied areas of Germany, Luxemburg, and certain parts of France and Belgium. The former was under the charge of Sir William Jones, and included Messrs. Percy Cooper, Rowland Harding, and Cosmo Johns, while the latter was entrusted to Dr. F. H. Hatch, whohad with him Messrs. L. Ennis, James Henderson, and Richard Mather. The Commissions were absent about three weeks. The terms of reference to them were the same and were to ascertain:—