Control Shanghat, May 10, Most of China's rich "deposits of coal, iron and salt' lie within ter-Fitory controlled by Japanese troops, spokesman for the Japanese Emi luassy claimed yesterday, Of China's deposits of coat in which she was said to rank third, after the United States and {Canada to per cent. are_ wi Japanese-controtied arcas, For salt fields, the figure was given as 50 per cent.
Shans! province was said by the spokesman to have 130,000,000,000 tons of China's (oral coal resources of 200,000,000,000 Charhar was said to have deposits of 92,000,000. tons of iron, or 37 per ent. of China's total" resources. Tron deposits in Hopei—also. con trolled by Japatiese troops—were put the spokesman at 42,000,000 tons. oF 14 per cent. of the country's total 'Of fait' fields, 46 per cent. were said by the spokesman to lie within Sapanese-controlled territory.
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