The Yangtze Engineering Works, which has a 100-ton blast furnace near Hankow, is considering the installation of coke ovens, as it is now dependent on contracts for both its ore and coke. Coking coal would have to be brought from Luihokou, a 400-mile railroad haul. The company has a 30-year contract for its ore. The iron deposits in Shantung, formerly owned by ithe Germans, have been explored by the Japanese with very disappointing results, it is said. said that the Corporation had lately concentrated on cheapening their products, and that he was. satisfied that, with the return of normal international financial relations, they could, compete with the Germans even in the most complicated dyes. He mentioned that 1,400 dyestuffs had been placed on the market and that thousands of others had been prepared. A new group of colours of wide range for dyeing artificial silk had, he said, recently been discovered.—Reuter.
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