The banking profession is not alone laying plans for the spring. When April melts away Harbin's cloak of snow the Municipal building programme will be started In earnest, fand by the time summer comes its inhabitants, it Is boasted, will be unable to recognize the city they live In, As this programme consists main of macadamizing the roads and improving street-lighting conditions, the boast seems a trifle extra but nevertheless there Is no dout if these plans are put into life Harbin will change visibly for the better. Alt the streets in the Sungari region are to be cemented and those fallen into dian region where side by side with modern thoroughfares are muddy streets worthy of on up-country' village. "The suburbs, it is planned, Will Be connected to the elly by wide oad while Kusiantung will be improved by a school, hospital and even parks. "As to sireer-lighting, the number of street lamps are to be increased to 20,000.
An ambitious government programme of exploliing the natural Fesources of Manchoukuo's " "Saar! Basin" and developing the country's heavy industry to a point where it Would manufacture its own automo-bites and aeroplanes was made public hhere recently. 'The "Basia" in question Iles near the South Manchurian Railway, and as a first step towards the realization of these plans a steel factory costing 70,000,000 yen build will, it fs stated, be completed there in 'Ave years' time. It will stand near' the Tunghua region, which is rich in coal, and not far from the Moulin mines where. veins of "molibden" have been struck.
"Molibden"™ is avery. necessary component of modern warfare and ued at 18,000 yen per ton. Japan present imports It from the United States.
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