Show SWEDEN HURT BY COLLAPSE OF ORE TRADE Above Arctic Circle Hard Hit By Occupation KIRUNA North of Attic Cir Cir- Circle Cir Circle dc cle eden Sneden Sw eden Oct 13 Wl A Franc Trances France s occupation of the fluhr Ruhr the resultant collapse of o the Swedish h hIron Iron oro ore trade with German Germany brought to Sweden s 4 great grat northern II lion on fields and aroused enmity to franco Irn In the thc large Artic Artie areas of ot Sneden S and NOI hl which h d perd nn the pa payrolls rolls of o the tho Iron districts fOr their stence c In 1922 the 1 Kiruna field used to send shiploads of o ore duly to the Norwegian port ot of At the time there is a a shipload a week neck eee Germany Germony form form- formerly formerly formerly erly took too the greater grater pirl of this ore She Sh has the furnaces to handle It but her purchases hao havo ceased sInce the flurry In tho the England and Prince hao o 0 no fur fur- furnaces furnaces fur naces naces suitable to the tho reduction t of the Swedish ore The Steel company has hos furnaces which are arc capable of using Ising this ore and some somo qt f It goes to America Swe Swe- Sweden Swo- Swo Sweden den exported 5 me- me metric me metric tons of Iron ore In 1923 1922 and andover 0 oer er 80 per cent of this went to Germans German As earl carl early as 1 1913 13 Ger- Ger manay monay manay bought 0 o er er 3 tons of Swedish iron ore for the RuIn Ruhr ALL AJL LI Ore and wood product products are arc practically practically practically the only freight a which hitch tItle this gr t t section of Lapland affords Us Its single railway rall which Is entirely electrified and is the most mot northern hern elech Ic rail railway ay la in the world orl 1 CIties of 10 have sprung up h hero re In Inthe inthe inthe the heart of Lapland at III Kiruna and are where here mountains of Iron ore are arc being demolished by gigan gigan- gl gigantic gigantic an- an antic tic electro cIs an and ru rushed hed to tidewater In steel ese rJ load into at Iule Lulea and IS after aCter the that the Range nan pours it Its it- ore are Into steamers at Sup Superior Wiscon Wiscon- Wisconsin Wisconsin sin for tor the te use of furnaces In In- In Indiana Indiana In Indiana diana or Great han h about 1 tons of lion hon or ore nn stored at In addition there iro VO ro aboLt 1 I O O- O 1 toes more which belong to va- va va various rious organizations This before the a Ico I Uco tico Great bought her ler part to keep it from going to but the tho British funnels funnel's u use e eIt It and apparently It huts hafl been hut Im- im impossible possible to find morl markets et else elsen here BULl LILD IJ U S t niP SHIPS B Sv Sr eden elen furthermore Is f new competition from Chile Strangely enough Sn Swedish B edith are constructing some nome gigantic l ore ships for far the Bethlehem Steel Co which are aro to be bo used In la carr carru InS ing ore to tho United StaLes These vessels easelS have se times the tho capacity of the average 0 crago ore ship which s ba has bas been operating from front and Lulea Lulea and can handle the product more cheaply |