Tokyo, Jan. 31.
The Osaka branch of the Japan Power Company announces today that 25,000,000 kilowatt hours.
The power supply to spinning and weaving mills, breweries and other industrial plants, it is understood, will thus be reduced to 70-85 per cent, of normal requirements, Aggravation of Situation Due to a sharp aggravation in the situation in the Kwansai area, the Japanese Government has to to the discretion of local officials, who are powerless to cope with the power famine.
The "Asahi Shimbun" forecasts that the ordinance will be applied in eastern as well as western Japan.
In the meantime, it is said that the Cabinet is considering the Ministry of Commerce's proposal to subsidize a to encourage production.—Reuter,
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