Changchun, Feb, 5.
Unable to import from' Germany four dynamos needed for a hydroelectric project, because of the outbreak of the European war, the Manchoukuo Government will place orders for the machinery in the United States and in Japan, it was learned today.
The machinery will be installed at the projected Shuifengtung power plant on the Yalu River on the Korean border.
Tnstead of the three dynamos originally ordered in Japan, the Manchoukuo Government has placed orders for five with the Shibaura Engineering Works in Tokyo, while the purchase of two 100,000 kilowatt generators in the United States is being planned. Four of these generators were to have been purchased in Germany.
With increasing demands for elec-trio power by Manchoukuo industrial enterprises, the completion of the Shuifengtung plant on the Yalu and the Sungari River project has become urgent. The three generators, originally ordered in Japan, will be completed in September, while the American machinery is expected to be installed by the end of 1941 Meantime, one of three 70,000-Kilowatt generators ordered by the Manchuria Electric Corporation for its Sungari project left San Francisco in-the middle of January, while the remaining two are to be shipped by the end of June.
In addition to the three generators from the United States, the corporation has ordered three generators: of "the same capacity from Germany and two from Japan. This German machinery was expected to be delivered in spite of the war—Domel.
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