Hankow, May 3, A correspedert of the "Central China Post" says that the town Juchow, Honan, where two Augustana Syncd missionaries, Miss Berglund and Mies Nystul, are fey has feater's Pacific Service, stationed, again has been captured Tokyo, Apr.'22, Japan may soon become independent, of the outside world for ker supplies of iron and steel.
This will become possible if the "iron sands" in her northern islands can be successfully treated chemically and converted into highly concentrated ore ready for the blast furnace, Experiments are now be ing carried out and, if these prov as successful on a' large scale they are reported to have been in laboratories, then will Japan turn new chapter in her economic history, and, from a political point of view, a new chapter in the history of the world may also ensue, The "iron sand" has titanium and magnetite in chemical combination as its principal and most important constituents. Exhaustive tests made American laboratories have satisfactorily proved that the commercial value of the "iron sand" is established. These tests were carried out in the laboratory of the United States Bureau of Mines, in California, by Mr. Kay Harrison, who is associated with Mr, B, Thane, of California, one of America's foremost metallurgists and chemical engineers.
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