"L'Ordre" Denounces "Permanent Treason"
Paris, Mar. 28.
The French press demanded today that Frence immediately cease large scale shipments to Germany of minerals indispensable for the manufacture of armaments.
The morning paper, "L'Ordre" said that such shipments were "perman-cut treason" and warned that some shipped to Germany inst France in the form of German munitions, The paper reported that in 1938 France shipped to Germany an average of 500,000 tons of minerals each month.
"The ore from Lorraine," the paper added, "crosses the Rhine with the possibility of its coming back to us sooner or later in the form of shells and shrapnel."
The paper said France is furnishing Germany with bauxite which not only is used in the composition of certain metals, but is used by the Germans as part of the explosive in certain 25 kilogram aerial bombs. Since 1935, the paper reported, French bauxite shipments to Germany averaged approximately 80,000 tons annually. "In the present state of Hitler expansion," the paper commented, "it can be said that these shipments are permanent treason for there is nothing to prevent the Maginot Line from one day being crushed under attacks by German planes built with French iron ore and dropping bombs in which French raw materials have been used."
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