ALLIES’ WAR OUTPUT

Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23977, 18 June 1943, Page 5

ALLIES’ WAR OUTPUT

FIGURES PUBLISHED IN U.S. NEARLY DOUBLE THAT OF AXIS (N.Z. Press Association— Copyright) (Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. Juhe 16. The United Nations are outproducing the Axis war industries at the rate of £31.250,000,000,000 against £16,500,000,000,000 a year, according to evidence published with the approval of the United States House of Representatives Appropriations Committee, states a Washington message. The chairman of the United States War Production Board (Mr Donald M. Nelson) said that United States war production would reach the peak of 90,000,000,000 dollars a year next year, and be held at that level until the Axis had been crushed. Mr Nelson said: “From both the military and the production points of view vve are in the midst of one of the greatest and most powerful developments in history, namely, incredible aircraft striking, power. From now on expenditures for the Air Force will far exceed expenditure in any other single military category, reaching before the end of the year an anriual rate of many thousands of millions of dollars.” The Associated Press says that Mr Nelson gave the strongest hint that military strategists had revised upward their estimates of what air power could do to beat the Axis to its knees. Members of the War Shipping Administration estimate that the merchant fleet will be more than doubled by the end of June, 1944, and that synthetic rubber production will be sufficient to meet normal tyre demands by the autumn of 1944. “The Allies now have at their disposal armies totalling between 13.000,000 and 14.000.000. and the United Nations have all the necessary manpower and materials to invade Europe,” says the Moscow newspaper “Trud.” It adds: “The British Empire can throw in between 2,500,000 and 3,000,000 men. The Allies are producing each month 10,000 guns, 6000 tanks, and 10,000 to 11,000 aeroplanes. Germany IS producing 3000 tanks, 4000 guns, and 4000 aeroplanes. England and America now possess at least twice as many fighters as Germany and her allies.”