28 JANUARY 1928, Page 3

The large increase in British shipbuilding just disclosed in Lloyd's

Register is important evidence '.of industrial revival. Out of 2,285,697 tons which were launched from the shipyards of the world last year 1,225,878 tons were built in Britain and Ireland. The British and Irish yards thus produced more than half of the total, and their output was an increase of 586,805 tons on the preeeding year. It must be remembered, however, that the year 1926 was a lamentably bad one.