Tokyo, Oct. 14.
Fearing that Japan's source of rubber may be cut off one day, the Imperial Invention Society, a body devoted to the encouragement and advancement of invention, has inaugurated a contest for the discovery of a new synthetic rubber process.
Ta announcing the contests, the Society says that rubber is both strategically and industrially indispensable, and, therefore, it is most urgent to secure a self-sufficient "Yomiuri" Laments supply of the commodity at home mb in the acquisition of foreign japanese businessmen to replace the imported material.
The new discovery, it is stipulated,
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