Tokyo, Oct. 18.
Two high officials of the Ministry of Commerce and Industry will leave here to-morrow for a 40-day tour of North China, in the course of which they will chart the coal resources of the region, Simultaneously, a mining expert of the Ministry, Mr, Shigetsugu Togo, will leave for Korea and Manchoukuo to investigate their iron resources, Mr. Akira Matsumoto, head of the Ministry's Mining Industry Section, Mr. Daisuke Saito, Secretary of the Ministry, both of whom will tour North China, and Mr. Togo, will submit comprehensive repens, which will ald the Ministry in carrying out its fuel, iron, and steel "policies. Special the vi China, since the rich coal resources of that area are regarded os an important factor in the execution of the Government's plan for a large-scale Uquefaetion of coal—Domei.
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