IRON FROM SAND
A JAPANESE DISCOVERY. '
The Tokio War Office announces di'covry of a method of utilising volciinio iron sand for Hie manufacture of steel, which, if adopted, it claims would make Japan independent of steel imports. It is added that recurrent anti-Japaneso movements in China since tho signing ot ilw» Treaty of VwsaMea forced Japan o seek a meaUß of obtaining an adequate home steel flupply. Experiments were begun in September with iron sand, of winch there tire unlimited supplies la the country, and tolerably Rood mul « ivero obtained from practical CxponnKn at the Jftncbihu blnet-furnnce. Altlio lg 1 the discovery is successful from the military point of view, the statement concludes—"This docs not necessarily mean tliac it ensurwt any economic advantage.
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 81, 30 December 1920, Page 6
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123IRON FROM SAND Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 81, 30 December 1920, Page 6
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