Going into details, the spokesman recalled that some time ago, a local newspaper reported the suspension of service on a Tokyo electric railway line because of an accident in a certain power plant.
Such an item, the War Ministry official said, may appear on the face of it to be unimportant. But, in fact, he stated, it informed foreign espionage that in case of war, bombardment of that "certain power plant" would be sufficient to render useless a whole Barring a complete political or other upheaval, the coming winter would be a far happier one for Shanghailanders than last year re~ garding commodity prices, the official predicted, Stocks of coal at present were ample, he said, for the next five or six months. In a commodity like coal, he said, stocks were never too large, as coal merchants were disinclined to tie up a lot of capital in coal.
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