Tokyo, Aug. 8.
Ifthe present programme pro~ tresses smoothly, Tokyo will be en-have and largest number of larged by next spring, when it will
inhabitants among the great cities fof the world and will be third in The programme calls for the merging of 82 adjoining towns with Tokyo, whereby the area will be in-Jereased by 166 million tsubo and the population by 4,078,000—Rea-te enough for north Manchuria for 809 years:
"2, Petroleum fields: There is a large petroleum all eld in Halon, some 20 mails to tht south of Men:
Some day eis "Centrnment is fo, elie According to" investigations terested in the mines, Manchuli will made by representatives of the Na-Seem develop into the most import-|tignal Government, the quality of ant port of the north. [this oil is most" satisfactory. Unless China steps in.immediately the "1, Coal Mines: In the districts Soviet ave likely to take over this along the Chinese Eastern Railway, between Manchali and Chalor, th: coal seams. extend hundreds of square miles and are covered with only a thin layer of earth. Although there is a coal mine in Chalor, it suspended operations since the Sit Soviet clash of 1929. The al supply from this mine alone is valuable asset.
"Besides, there are the salt mines, cattle and' furs also, are in great abundance in north Manchuria, With the Chinese Eastern Railway. under sole Chinese management, ° Man~ chub's trade position in the north will be greatly elevated,' "conclude the writers,
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