The number of Japanese residents of French Indo-China jumped from 234 to many thousand after the various deals by which Japanese army and navy men and representatives of Japan's industry and commerce opened that country to development by Japanese firms, The Japanese want rice, coal tin and fron from Indo-China, At one time they also wanted sand, and the story around Tokyo was that they specified that the sand must come only from Camranh Bay and be loaded only in Japanese ships, The French laughed that one off but apparently the Japanese now have got their sand, Lumber also comes from the South Sea regions and Japan needs lumber for pulp from which to make rayon and staple fiber goods,
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