Sit a here? let at hat requires electric power in large quantities and at low unit cost The Government is planning to erect factory capable of producing "16,000. tons a year of this metal, so. necessary in aviation development. Power for this factory fs to come from the National Power Preliminary estimates in= dam about 4,000 feet_ in Tength, but because of hills which border on the river the impounded water will not. cover any unusual breadth of territory but is expected fo back up for some 90 miles above the dam.
The first plant for the production of aluminium will be at Fushun where the augmented power plants of the South Manchuria Railway operat ing at the famous Fushun mines will be able to deliver electric power at a minimum cost. This plant supplied with bauxite, the raw material for manufacturing aluminium from the Fieh deposits at Yentai, about 63 miles south of Mukden will produce '4000 tons a year from 1938, Japan now produces 20,000" tons annually fand the addition of -Manchoukuo's tons. will enable her 19 nate other sources of supply.
Ambitious Scheme Hig Re tt aer Bee al ata lio Be tee voi ti at a 250,000 "special troops." Divisions Saceaiiee dae tat fecizie ie nee Las erty Mer Those power projects are paralleled by an ambitious scheme to form a Yalu River Hydro-electric Power Ca., capitalized at ¥.100,000,000, with the plant near Hekido, a Korean town on the Yalu, 45 miles above Antung. The chief investors are to be the Government of Manchoukuo, South Manchuria Railway Ca, Manchuria Electric Corp.. Oriental Development Ca, and the Chosen Industrial Bank. Electric power interests in Japan are to be Invited to participate in the scheme. The proposed capacity '450,000 kilowatts of which 390,000 are to be supplied to Manchoukuo and only 60,000 to Korea.
Slatisties have been acquiring 9 Somewhat astronomical flavour—the annual foreign trade approaches 1,300,000,000 yuan and Japanese. in-Vestments here approximate ¥.3,000, 000,000. The new S-year plan for industrial development will require an expenditure of nearly 2,450,000,000 yuan. So it comes og rather a reread that the SMR, will employ only 115 university graduates and 480 middle school graduates in the new staff for the State Railways this year, in addition to 200 ex-service men for the police department.
Stabilizing Manchoukuo
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