"Ihe continuous drought in Japan which has paralyzed the Japanese hydro-electric system has created an enormous demand for fuel to operate the power plants, Japanese mines, producing only a little over 40,000,000 tons of coal each year, cannot meet this demand and consequently the country is forced to import coal Practically all the coal mined in the Japanese occupied areas in China is shipped direct to Japan, with a limited quantity being shipped to Shanghai by the Kailan Mining Administration. This coal has been rationed out most fairly are the old customers of the K.M.A. and at a reasonable price.
Even the coal which Japan obtains from China cannot fulfill the country's needs, however, and she is also forced to turn to Indian markets for the fuel. Most of the mines which are in Japanese controlled territory in China have been destroyed, railways which formerly carried the mineral from the mines to the coast have been torn up, and what little coal can be mined after makeshift repairs gots to feed the railway engines of the Japanese military trains. Ironically enough, Japan was able to import more coal from China before the war started than she is today.
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