Dairen, Jan. 24 A sudden increase in ihe production of salt from the salt deeds of} the Kwantung Leased Territory reported for'1035. Although " complete tabulation of the year's output has not been completed, the "total already reported amounts' to 819,400, 00 kin or 1,081,008,000 1b, for the first ten months of 1935. This total compared with the output for the frst ten months of 1934 ree presents on Incrense of 55800800 With outputs of two more months to add, It Is estimated the - grand total for 1995 will reach 1,122,000.009 Yb, or more than twice the '551,760,000 Th, produced in 1934, Long spells of dry weather and mounting demands from Japan favoured tht amazing increase, The manufacture of salt is one of the more important industries in Mnnchoukuo and the outlook for Imereased development 1s especially right. Extensive salt fields are scattered all along the western coast of the Liaotung Peninsula that futs out Into Pohal Gulf, there being in the 'Kwantung Leased Territory alone 20870 acres of brine "pans." Favoured by scanty rainfall and dry winds sweeping over from the deserts of Mongolia, salt is obtained by natural evaporation, water of high! salt content being' Toft in ground troughs, known as "pans." until the sun and dry alr leave only the salt. With Formosa and Tsing'ao, the Kwantung lensed Territory Ir" fisted among the leading. salt producing renttes in the world that" rely the solar evaporation process. The future of the local industry, however, brighter insofar as acreage of salt fields and production are ex ered, for they can be multiplied without much dimeulty. Even now it is proposed to increase the area to 24,500 acres and the annual production to, 2,000,000,000 Ib. The incentive for extended production is the Mere: Ing demand from the soda ash industry In Japan, To Improve the Product In quality, Kwantung salt is poorer compared with Formosan and Tsingtao products and suffers badly in comparison with sun evaporated alt produced in Egypt and Spain. Japa-Rose Government officials at }.csent fre conducting a wide sw vey of Toeal salt fields in the hope of improving the quality produced, A 300,000 square-metre salt eld maintained for experimental pur-{voses, while official encouragement Is being given the Improvement transportation facilities, Subsidiary' works are also being intro ced and consulting offices maintained In addition to the Kwantung Leased Territory, salt is produced along the south-western coastline of Fengtien Province and in. Hslngau from the salt lakes of Dalainor and Boinor. Those elds are operated by, Mai choukuo which has undertaken to yrrease the annual production from 450,000,000 1b, to 800,000,000 1b, Recognizing the importance of salt from a national point of view, Manchoukuo, soon after its establishment, made it a government monopoly and now proposes on January 1, 1037, to unify the sale of salt and collection of salt gabelles and surtaxes. Under the existing monopoly system It lg pointed out that there are such conflicting methods as the tax of 63 yuan per 100 chin (50 Kllogrammes) levied on consumers while the people of Kirin and Heilungkiang Provinees pay an additional surtax of three to four yuan. The annual salt revenue is about 25,000,000 yuan and is one of biggest sources of income for Manchoukuo Government.
Of interest as a recent development. in this salt area Ig the decision to establish a joint. Japan-Manchouleuo enterprise to be known as thy Manchuria Salt' Manufacturing Ca, addition to producing and _selting Industrial salt and salt for preserve ing fish, the new company will have monopoly of salt export to Japan. It yill be capitalized at ¥.5,000,000 and its annual production is to be {600,000,000.1b, Huge Manchoukuo No The Central Bank of Manchow Issued an average of 178,354,004 yuan worth of bank notes per day during the week from December 29, 1935, to January 4, it was revealed here to-@ay. Tt is understood this dally average is the highest sin: e the Government bank was established in Tune 1932, Two causes are declared to be responsible for the sudden increase. One Is the advent of the annual Produce season and the other the Adoption of Manchoukuo currency by Japanese organizations, in-inding the South Manchuria Railway Company in the Railway Zone, the Kwantung Army, the Manchuria Telephone Telegraph Ca, the Mar jehurla Coal Mining Ca, and others. Bank authorities here say they anticipate advancing an average of 10,000,000 yuan per month to produce dealers alone, In addition to the bank notes, the (Central Bank Issued a dally average cof 20,289,930 yuan in subsidiary coins during the one-week period "ver the year-end, for a total of 108098024
Yalu River Dyke Repair Scheme The Government of Antung Prov-nee, according to a semi-oficial report' received here, has de: ided to spend 2,000,000 yuan within the next three years for reconstructing and repairing dykes damaged by recent foods of the Yalu River. fae em bankments needing immediate attention stretch about 5,000 metres along [the Manchoukuo side of the river that forms a boundary line with Korea. If left unattended, the city Jor Aniung as well as the neighbouring lowlands will be [further danger of inundation, the }¥alu River frequently becoming unmanageable.
This is part of a more extensive plan to develop Antung into 2 trade feentre capable of handling tre potential output of the entire district east Jof the Mukden-Dairen Railway. sye-dally in the Tungplentao "ud Tan-{no areas which were once 1ormid-Jable bandit strongholds. Tu addition to the Provincial Government and the Hsinking Administration, tt jenderetocd that the S.MLR. is' willing {to ce-operate in a programme eventually to concentrate major activities in the vast territory that depends Jupon the port of Antung for a water outlet.
Antung isa river port, 25. miles from the mouth of the Yalu. River. Tt was until recently connestod with the rising Korean city of New Wu (Singishu) by a famous bridge that Invited international protest when diemantied on the ground that the} Japan had aged and fallen into such disrepair that its existence was menace to river tame. Baling. the Junction of the Mukden-Antung and the Korean Railways and in. com= anding position on the Yalu River, this inland port of Antung has had rather rapid rise, from an obzeure Junk pact to the "second most. Imfrortant commercial waterfront South Manchoukuo. Dairen is. the! most important, but Antung has outstripped Newchwang (Yingkow), once the head of the list of Manchurian jrorts, Antung was opened f9r com-mores in 1907 while Newchwang had Ins slart os for back as 1858,
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