WAR PRODUCTION

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 77, 24 January 1942, Page 5

WAR PRODUCTION

U S. GREATLY OUTCLASSES JAPAN I Washington, Jan., 22. An Office of Production Manage- I ment report, analysing the potential, war production of warring countries. ; says that the United States of America hopelessly outclasses Japan. The report offers the following annual figures as evidence: Electricity output. United States 82.000,000,000 kilowatt hours, Japan 21,000,000,000; 1 machinery, United States 5,000.000.000 ! dollars value, Japan 1,000.000,000; steel 1 ingots, United States 68,000,000 tons, j Japan, 9,000,000; coal, United States 505,000,000, Japan 80,000.000; crude oil, United States, 1,300,000,000 barrels, Japan 10,000,000. All the Japanese figures include Manchukuo. The report explains that despite Japanese inferiority, the United States of America can devote only part of its tremendous output to the Far Eastern front, in view of the enormous share needed for other fronts. ALLIED SHIPBUILDING Senate passed a 775,000,000,-dollar authorisation for shipbuilding and repair facilities. Mr Land, chairman of the Maritime Commission, in a progress report to Congress, said the construction of Allied shipping was now forging ahead of sinkings. United States merchant tonnage was now 7,000,000 and 12.000,000 was in prospect for 1943. Britain began with 21.000,000, lost about 9,000,000 and at the same time created an additional 5,000,000. Axis Powers lost about ! 5,000,000. and the total world shipping : losses were about 27 per cent of the 152.000,000 available before the war.— ! U.P.A.