CHINA'S VITAL INDUSTRIES
REMOVED TO THE INTERIOR TRANSPORTATION UNDER DIFFICULTIES I MJ.P A.— By Electric Telegraph— Copyright! (Received 17th April. 11.35 a m.) LONDON, 16th April. “The Times” Chungking correspondent says that the Chinese Government has astonishingly succeeded in removing vital industries to the interior Three hundred and thirty cotton mills, electric plants, iron and steel works, aggregating 130.000 tons of equipment have been taken to new sites, chiefly Szechwan. A cotton mill of fifty thousands spindles was transported a thousand miles by road, railway and steamer and junks through the Yangtse gorges, despite air attacks, and dumped on a barren hillside where four thousand coolies are levelling a site. Meantime 2500 spindles are operating in temporary sheds. The Chinese occupied Tsengchen, Tungshu and Fushan. Such of the cable n«ws in this issue is so headed has appeared in “The Times” and is sent to this paper by special permission. It should be understood that the opinions are not those of “The Times” unless expressly stated to
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 17 April 1939, Page 8
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