Government to Utilize Natural Resources Front Our Ows Comesronrese Changchun, Feb. 16.
Along with the development of industries which will require large amounts of electrical energy at low rates, comes an impressive "power programme. 'The national power development scheme which the Man choukuo Government is carrying out just above Kirin, on the Sungari River, even though supplemented by that on the Ching Po Lake, still lett a serious shortage in South' Manchoukuo, To provide for this the governments of Manchoukuo and Chosen are participating in the Yale River Hydro-Electric Ca, a ¥.100,000,000 dam at Suihodo, a small town on the bank: of the Yalu, will provide water for seven 92,000 k.w., hydraulic, turbogenerators, which, the company proudly point out, surpass the 62,500 kk. w. units at Boulder Dam. 'The com. pany claims that the dam at Sulhodo will even surpass in grandeur the famous American structure on the Colorado River. 'The Yalu Dam will be over half a mile long and rise over 200 ft, from the foundation to] the highest' point, The average fective head will be about 254 ft. anc the maximum available water power is itlven as 4,000 k. w. less then the total rating of the seven generat About 300,000 Io. w. will be available by the end of 1641. Six other sites have been selected and these with her places, to be decided on, are said to have a total available power of 1,600,000 k. w. Meanwhile the Ma churia Electrical Ca, is spendii '¥5,000,000 on a hydro-electric pla on the Hunkiang in Hunanjen Pre fecture, Antung Province. They propose to aupply 60,000, i. w. to the Tron industry 80,000 to the light metal industry and, $0,000 K.w. to coal tuming and other industries. "For immediate needs in the southwest 0 at the Fouhsin Coal this plant to be one of the largest in Asi
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