(it. should be interpolated here that the Japanese, in their efforts to cut down their imports and to make themselves as independent as possible in key materials, started, "among Others, an aluminium manufacturing industry some half dozen years ago. This was to free themselves as much as possible from having to buy their aluminium, indispensable in manufacturing war supplies, from Canada and Scandinavian countries. Japan has been importing the necessary bauxite from Java and Greece, that from the former being "used in a plant in Formosa run by electricity from the Lake Jutsugetsudan hydroelectric station.
Also some success has attended plants set up in Korea and Manchoukuo to use the low-content alumina clays found in those areas. For some years it was found impossible to attain the high standard of purity. approximately 99.9 per cent. required by the army and navy arsenals, who therefore forbade the import embargo being applied to Canadian aluminium when Japan had her trade war with Canada in 1935. Now, it is, however, understood that Japanese aluminium has attained the necessary degree of purity)
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