In regard to iron, Mr. Louis continues : " Germany
will still have an annual production that could easily be brought up to ten million tons of iron-ore, or say five million tons of pig iron, as against fourteen million tons in 1913," even when the minette ore which Germany obtained from Lorraine has been deducted. This production " would be ample for the indus- trial needs of the German nation," though not for a huge output of war munitions. In the circumstances Mr. Louis suggests that, in addition to the Saar output, Germany should be com- pelled " to deliver over to France as much coal as will bring the total coal supplies of the latter up to at least her pnewar standard until her Northern oellieries- are again fully equipped and in working order ; that the whole of the Silesian coalfields should
pass to Poland ; and that the delivery of the Luxemburg minetto ore should be made to Belgium rather than to Germany."
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