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Show OF COPPER MAY TURN TIDE ... AGAINST THE GERMAN INVASION other0"1 SUl'jllL'S of cPI)er essential metals may factor that wnll cost Ultima t, victory in the - JJ ar, c. Donald Dallas, .,7ket'"g e.vpert and pre- Kf-v.-re Copper and "Crated, said recent. DrdIIas des'-nhed Germany's " Serves a ineligible, and 'at't wa:: difficult to see 'e 50.00u tons of the es- vU'H'h th naEis '-o,,ii nnfi the next 12 4 Com, from. Recent fi1Ct""1:; gainst Rus-Stitp" Rus-Stitp" "nports from the -.'jrJf.wr to have cut lmPrtant source of LnCUhf'r of thps two 'We cnouSh to enable S ThCir total pro- ; P? hor wth that of Rumania, Yugolsavia and Slovakia, would not supply one-third of Germany's n-ecs "Under these n.nddions, Mi-Dallas Mi-Dallas said, "it is likely that failure fail-ure of Germany's copper sanph' --will --will force her to a pr, mature showdown through the tnreat 01 crippling many of her cssentioi civil and military servioes.t.ei-many servioes.t.ei-many produces only about .i ' ' w tons of copper annualiv U-.-s than one-tenth of what she used in 1938 and about 7 per rent 0 her 1939 consumption. lo this went into war equij ;-m.;n . heavy industries, coniniuntcati-; . services and rolling st"-- 1,1 which replacements will required re-quired at a relatively early da -.- "As against Germany s pligi"-the pligi"-the British have the resources 01 the rich Rhodesian. Canadian Congo and Chilean mine?, wm produced almost a million ton-last ton-last year. Moreover, they can always al-ways turn to the Lnited States. |