JAPANESE WAR PLANTS
MacARTHUR TAKES ACTION (Rec. 9.30 a.m.) TOKIO, Jan. 21. General MacArthur took over 349 Japanese aircraft plants, army and navy arsenals and laboratories in a sweeping directive aimed at preserving them intact for probable shipment as reparations to the nations Japan attempted to conquer. Disclosing that, the Japanese had been permitting equipment valued at millions of dollars to deteriorate and that in some instances they bad removed machinery from plants, General MacArthur directed the Japanese to cease removals immediately and place guards around the buildings to assure adequate maintenance. American troops since October have destroyed more than one-third of the Japanese war potential in Southern Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. The destroyed artillery pieces included 1930 field guns, 6199 ack-ack guns, 970 coast artillery guns, and 1542 aircraft cannon. A sample page of one- destruction report, was 2742 aeroplanes, 184 tanks, 120 midget, submarines, 75,750 rocket launchers, 85,332 mortars, 349,780 mines, 49,550 rockets, 1,000,000 bombs, 4,500,000 grenades, 258,000,000 rounds of ammunition and 155,000,0001 b of bulk explosives.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 66, Issue 86, 22 January 1946, Page 3
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