Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1918 — JAPANESE BUILD 250 SHIPS A YEAR [ARTICLE]

JAPANESE BUILD 250 SHIPS A YEAR

Toklb. —Japan is able to build 25(1 ships a year, their tonnage totaling i. 000.000. according, to a government statement. The shipbuilding business of Japan has had an unprecedented growth since the beginning of the war. and on September 1 there were 113 shipbuilding slips owned by 42 firms, besides 2-1 slips which are building nnd will be ready before the end of the year. These facilities are more than three times as great as af'the beginning of the war. . Each slip is capable of turning out a ship of more than 1,000 tonnage in less than a year.