For Reparations

Northern Advocate, 26 August 1946, Page 5

For Reparations

TOKIO, August 24. General MacArthur has listed 505 plants as potential reparations for the Allied nations. The list includes the following: All privately-owned munitions plants, all sulphuric acid plants capable of producing more than 3.500.000 tons a year, half of the thermal elec-tric-power generating plants, 22 iron and steel plants, half of the machine tool industry, 19 soda ash. caustic soda and chlorine plants, and 90 per cent, of the ball-bearing and roller-bearing industry.

Shipbuilding capacity for steel ships over 100 tens in excess of that necessary to build 150,000 tons a year and service a fleet of 3,000,000 tons has also been listed for repartitions. The Japanese Government has been directed to furnish all necessary assistance in dismantling the factories. Some of them, however, may continue in operation until subsequent orders.