Tokyo, April 6.
The Imperial Japanese Government will not consider any plan for the transfer of its Legation to" Nanking, capital of the National Government of- China, until it is eon-vinced that Nanking is, to be the permanent capital of the Chinese! Ration, according to the oficial Spokesman of the Foreign Office in. Tokyo.
published inthe vernacular press spokesman denied reports that the Government is considering the early establishment of a Japanese Legation in Nanking. Tt had een reported that the Legation property in Peking would be, retained simply asa Japanese Consulate-
Nanking, Apr. 2. cient for the needs of at Toast 100 learned, from" authentic sources that the Ministry of Indus 'The chief difficulty of iron works tay has submitted a long memor. fla China is to obtain good coal Jandum to the National Government, from a reasonable distance, 'The outlining a plan for the establish supply' of coal largely comes. from ment of a great steel plant at Tsing Hsin, Tze Hsien and Lu Ho Pakow. The cost of the plant is Kou. mines' wi ¢_all_ located estimated at $82,040,000, ines, are. 2,000 i from the It is comparatively easier steel," says the Minis obtain coal from. Kailan and fandumy on the subject, "is of essen cording to results Gal: importance to the development lof recent investigations, however, of China's industries, and now possible to obtain good coal important factor in "the dev from Ssu Hsien, Anhui Province, chow fu, Kiangsu Province,
imports local are required for the smelting Tis estimated that three tons. of 600,000. ton: lof one ton. of iron ore, About. tion, projects of China still to. be 100,000,000 tons of coal, therefore, [started, take the railway alone, the Jare necessary for the smelting. of necessity of China having its own iron ores totalling 30,000,000 tons. iron and steel plants is only too "it is. proposed that the steel evident. With the exception of the plant be established at Pukow. plants in the Theee Eastern Pro-Pukow is a communication centre, being connected with various. ins a wut down owing. steel plants, dustrial centres by rail and water. The pig iron and iron ores fron up this industry, the National Governraviou To. develop iver can be transported to Pukow ment must take an active, rile. by. water at a comparatively low "The Yangtze Valley holds an cost." Such pig iron and iron ores trial and communication enterprises, were generaly exported to foreign countries, especial The former plants had an annual future they can ly" Japan, in smelted at output of 500,000 tons, but these
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