Pre-War Production Figures tobe Realized again by 1925
Moscow, Sept. 1.
The Soviet: Government has set: 1925 as the year when the prod12ztion of Russian industries should' be brought up to an output anproaching the pre-war normal.
Transport and agriculture and all auxiliary industries connected with them are to be re-established first. Special attention and liberal expenditure are recommended for oil and coal prodtiction.
Oil, which in 1922 yielded 263,000,000 boods (a pood is 37 pounds) is expected to yield 497,000,000 in 1925, and coal, whi in 1922 yielded 670,000,000 _poods is expected to give 1,670,000,000 boods in 1925, as against 570,000,000 peeds of oil in pre-war times, aad 2,097,000,000 boods of coal in 1916 the year of maximum production.
The metal industry, which in 1922 yielded 30,000,000 peeds, is expected to yield 120,000,000 in 1925 as against 257,400,000 boods im ia13. In the textile industry, where 1,268,500 spindles and 36,000 oams ave working in 1922 producing 500,000,0¢0 yards of cloth, 3,000,000 spindles and 80,000 looms are expected to yield 1,400.000,000 ya ds of cloth in 7925.
This plan. however, cannot be accomplished without money, a; report to the recent Commun party conferences. Money is needed from the start, both as fundamental and working capital. And ihe sum to bring the various industries through till 1926 is fixed 7 %t 3.500,000,000 gold roubles., As no such money can be found in the country, the report urges the necessity of attracting money from abroad, as otherwise the existence of the most—important industries—metal, machine and mining—are greatly threatened Reuter.
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