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Show GERMAN NATION IS NOT CRIPPLED Iron Masters in Annual Meeting Meet-ing Report Industrial Resources Re-sources New Product Replaces Manganese. Duseldorf, Germany, March 13, via Eerlln and Sayvllle. At the annual meeting of tho German Iron Masters' association the president, Dr. Sprin-gorum, Sprin-gorum, asserted that British hopes and efforts to defeat Germany by tho destruction of industry which Is absolutely abso-lutely necessary to supply the army and preserve the econbmio equilibrium equili-brium havo been useless on account oU the self-contained industrial resources re-sources of the nation and the manner In which they havo been co-ordinated. The vioe president of tho association, associa-tion, Dr. Petersen, said Great Britain had hoped to cripple Germany by stopping stop-ping the Importation of manganese, but that thiB effort had been vain because be-cause manganese had been replaced completely by a Gorman product. Dr. Petersen declared that all other supplies, sup-plies, requisite for the production of iron and steel are abundant la Germany, Ger-many, "bo that we can stand a war of any length." oo |