BELGIUM'S REVIVING INDUSTRIES
• From a Belgian official source Heuter's Agency has received some interesting figures'which.show tho recovery of Belgian industries, and which, in view of the enormous destruction wrought by the Germans, afford evidence of tho spirit of tho Belgian people:— May, 1913. May. 1919. Coal 1,6D0,C00 tone 1,100,000 tons . fioko 125,000 „ 36,000 „ Oenient 73.0G0 „ 7.000 „ Blast furnaces 210,966 ~ 4.065 „ Semi-mamifac-tured products 127.075 „ 3.431 „ Iron-steel ... 154,821 „ 7.551 „ Steel 162.681 „ 8 ~ SI eel (Martin) 17,717 „ . 7,579 ~ Cast-iron ... 5,154 „ - 6ii£iir (refined ..:.... 9.JC6.967 kilos 3,700.000 kilos Cotton for spinning 1,700,000 spindles ECC.OCO spindlea Cotton for weaving , 42,000 looms 500 looms liincn for spiiiniiiij J75.000 spindlcß 38,000 spindles Linen for vroaving . 11,000 „ . , — Glass works exceed nil others in their present output, but actual figures are not forthcoming.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 307, 23 September 1919, Page 5
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123BELGIUM'S REVIVING INDUSTRIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 307, 23 September 1919, Page 5
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