Japanese Navy Claims to Have Achieved Aim Tokyo, Mar. 18.
Liquefaction of coal has now been placed by the Korea Coal Industry Company, with all-Japanese technical equipment, on a commercial basis, a spokesman of the Admiralty announced last night.
The Naval Fuel Depot in Japan proper succeeded in producing liquid fuel out of coal on a semi-commercial basis in 1934. The Korea Company, assisted by the Navy, launched its operations two years later.
Machinery, capable of a capacity output of 50,000 tons of oil annually was instanced early this year. Trial operations, the spokesman revealed, have been in progress since the end of last month "with satisfactory results."
The plant was put on full-time on March 16. The liquefaction plant at Fushun, built by the South Manchuria Railway Company, will begin to produce oil from coal this autumn—
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