WESTERN GERMANY TO RETAIN MORE FACTORIES

Chronicle (Levin), 14 April 1949, Page 5

WESTERN GERMANY TO RETAIN MORE FACTORIES

Received Thursday, 10.30 a.m. WASH1NGTON, April 13. The United States. Britain and Erinlee announeed a shaip reductiiiH in the number oi iactories to be removed ironi Western Germany. All or pari oi 159 plants are to be removed froni the reparations list previousiy agreed upon. The equipment whien is to be retained in Germany is located in 32 piaiits in the steel industry, 88 motai working plants. 32 chemical ulants and seven plants in the nonierrous metal industnes. Five oi the steel industry plants produce erude steel and these will raise Wistern Germaiiy's steelmaking eapaciiy by 165,000 tons annually. That* v;ih give Western Germany a t mai capacity of about 13 465,000 tons ycarly. The production ceiling ui 11,100,000 tons ani.naily remains. The annouiwements are the latm a .wries oi moves aimed at threefolc: o'ojective: Firstly, to giv Germany limited self-govern-nient ; slcondly, to advance the oehu'iered nation towards economic iCii-- uificiency: and, thirdly, to ei.aah- Germar.y to eontribute more to ihe lotal lvcovery of Europe. T.nn reduction of ihe German repuiations list was made on the in'iaxve of the United States as the ; ult of a survey by a group oi Aoierican industrialists. The ,ui no originally selected 381 facte! :e in Germany for a detailed i stuciy and last January recom- j menad that 167 be retained.