CARVING UP JAP INDUSTRY

Chronicle (Levin), 30 November 1946, Page 5

CARVING UP JAP INDUSTRY

CURTAILING FACILITIES TO MAKE WAR Received Fridav, 8.45 p.m. NEW YORK, Nov. 28. Tlie linal report of the Reparations Commissioner, .Mr. Edwin Pauley, on what should be takou from Japan shows that the cust Asiatic area will be built up,so that its nioniber states can trade with Japan on an equal footiug and be like 1 'sentinels watching her from nearby. ' ' The Ilerald-Tribnne 's Wasliington correspondent says details of Mr. 1'aulev 's reeonimendalions for carving up Ja[)anese industrv indude: — Iron and steel: Japan should be restricted to a blast furnace capacitv for pigiron of 5K>, ())() metrie tons yearly and an ingot steel capacitv of 2,225;()00 metrie tons, thus forcing her to import. 1,000, (100 tons of pigiron annuallv from her formerly enslaved territories.' Japan should retain a steel-rolling capacitv of 1,500,000 metrie tons yea-lv. All other metal-working maelunery exeept equipment for makiug rough forgings and castings, should be removed. Mnchines used excdusively for wide plate, heavy armour-plate, gun forgings and similar war material, should be destroved. This should make availuble for reparations, equipment for 5,000,000 metrie tons of blast furnace capacitv, 3, 000,000 tons of eleetrie furnace capacitv, 0,000,000 tons eaeh of open henrth and rolling-mill capacitv. Machine tools: Japan 's inventorv should be reduced to 175,000 units j)lus capacitv to produce 1000 new tools yearly. Hix Imndred thousand tools

will be availuble for reparations. Sliippiug : Japan should be Jimited to steel vessels of not more tlian 5000 gross tons with a top speed of twelve knots. Her total merchant marino tonj nage should he 1,. >00,000 tons gross. Japan 's merchant inariue should be nest riotod to Kar Eastern water. A total of 114 ships of 5000 tons or more will be avaibible to the Allies. Ten large and twelve smaJl sliiplmilding vards may be retain ed, leaving 30 to -10 for reparations. Railways: Japan should be limited to the production of 22 locomotives, 8(J0 passenger cars aml 48op frcight cars yearly, leaving for the Allies !)()(j steam locomotives, 70 eleetrie. locomotives, 30, ()()() freight cars. Factories for building raihvay equipment will also be available. Alumiuium ai^l magnesium: These industries should be removed entirely. Chemicals: The industrv would be restrieted virtu-illy to the manufacture! of fertilisers, -leaving other chemical plants for the Allies. Eleetrie power plants: Of Japan 's 282 thermal power plants with 4,000,000 ldlowatts capacitv, 140 with 2,000,000 kilowatts output should be removed and an undetermined number of the 1507 hydro-electric plants with .0,(100,000 kilowatts capacitv can also be removed. Petroleum: All synthetic oil plants should be removed except portions of iive that can be used for producing nitrogenous fertilisers. Xatural oil relineries are exempt from reparations but all rolining capacitv exceeding 40,000 barrels of crude oil dailv and all storage capacitv of ovor 1 0,000 barrels dailv should be made availuble for reparations. The report reeommends the retention of the handicrafls and eeraniies industries.