Plight of the Bean Cake and Refineries: C.E.R. and Their Refusal to Help Mills: Crisis Impending By TH, Harbin, June 19.
It is quite within the memory of every resident in Manchuria and especially in Harbin that it is not so Jong since the local oil mill industry held the first place among the other industries of North Manchuria and up to the world economic crisis it never occurred to anybody that it would be in such a hopeless situation as is to be seen at the present moment.
Tt is true that with the appearance in Western Europe of a Inrge number of all mills of the very latest type the output of which is of a consider~ ably better quality than the by-products of soya beans in Manchuria Owing to the west European works having much better facilities for cleaning the beans and thus produe-
Ing better by-products, As far back as 1927 the managers of the CER. together with the re~ presentatives of local oil mills sent 4 deputation to Germany, Ttaly and other countries of Europe to investi-fate the manner in which the beans were crushed in those countries, but the results of this investigation ow-Ing to a whole string of reasons were not employed by the local organizations and.the latter continued to carry on their business by primitive methods.
Exports 1926-27 gave a signal to the local all mill industry that the oil mills in Manchuria, must be brought to such a standard and fited with such machinery which would enable them not only to com pete with the foreign firms but Produce even better products. And This signal was even more definite when It became known that the chief consumer of Manchurian beans cakes namely Japan was beginning to use chemical fertilizers instead of the Manchurian product.
Thus the export of these products from Manchuria was as follow:
Bean cakes Bean elf it would probably find a readier sale on the world's markets,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.