§ Mr. Swinglerasked the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs whether he is aware that failure to remove two disused blast furnaces scheduled as reparations and sited near the Holmag Works at Kiel is hindering the provision of peacetime industry and prolonging unemployment among the local workers; and whether he 206W will take action to change this state of affairs.
§ Mr. MayhewThere are no blast furnaces at or near the Holmag Works at Kiel. There are, however, two cupola furnaces of very small value in the iron foundry at Holmag, scheduled for reparations but not yet dismantled. Their retention is not hindering the provision of peacetime industry nor prolonging unemployment among local workers. Their retention and their substitution for reparations by other furnaces has, in fact, been asked for by the local German authorities and this request is under consideration.