In an oversea broadcast address Sir Muhammad Zafrullah Khan, Law Member and Member of the Supply Department of the Viceroy's Executive Council, referring to India's war effort, said: "Our position is that, with regard to both men and materials, the only limit is the tonnage available throughout the war." Evi dence of the important economic contribution which India is making to the prosecution of the war i steadily growing, states "The Times."
As regards raw materials, apart from her resources in jute, cotton. groundnuts, linseed and other oilseeds, India's exports include numerous other products, such as hides and skins, lao, hemp, coir, rubber, timber and other forest products, while in foodstuffs, in addition to large shipments of tea, barley and lentils are also exported to Great Britain. On he manufacturing side the industrial development which has taken place in India during the last 20 years has proved of great value to the country's war effort. This progress is generally "sociated with the production of textiles, but actually it covers a num-rer of other industries, such, for example, as the manufacture of cement, the annual Indian output of which is now over 1,000,000 tons. Another example is the iron and steel industry, the growth of which has been remarkable. For 1938-39 the total production of pig-iron in India was 1,644000 tons, that of steel ingots, 922,000 tons, and of finished steel, 867,000 tons, while the annual Output of finished steel is now apareaching 1,250,000 tons. Recently it vas stated that the steel industry was working to the limit of capacity, with Orders booked for several months head, and it is now able to meet nearly the whole of the requirements in steel of India's Defence Forces with a substantial exportable surplus for the common cause.
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