The only question is how far she is to be allowed facilities for purchasing their produce.

The German Delegation made strong efforts to secure the inclusion of a provision by which coal and coke to be furnished by them to France should be given in exchange for _minette_ from Lorraine.

But they secured no such stipulation, and the matter remains at France's option.
The motives which will govern France's eventual policy are not entirely concordant.

While Lorraine comprised 75 per cent of Germany's iron-ore, only 25 per cent of the blast furnaces lay within Lorraine and the Saar basin together, a large proportion of the ore being carried into Germany proper.

Approximately the same proportion of Germany's iron and steel foundries, namely 25 per cent, were situated in Alsace-Lorraine.