Extract from the Far Eastern Weekly Intelligence Summary No. 74 for week ending 9.6.44.
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Information from other sources:-
1. (a) An unconfirmed report has been received that
work at the Green Island Cement Works was
stopped at the beginning of March and all the machinery was dismantled and shipped elsewhere.
(b) The annual output of these works was about
100,000. tons of ordinary cement and 15,000 tons of rapid-hardening cement.
The Company started to rebuild the plant in 1929 with machinery supplied by Messrs. Vickers- Armstrong. It was completed in 1931. In the new works, a change was made from the dry process to the wet process of manufacture. The main raw material used is a hard limestone from the Canton district, Haiphong or Japan and as it is imported the cost is comparatively high. A large stock of limestone amounting at times to 250,000 tons was always kept at the works. Coal had also to be' imported. The moving of the machinery is probably due to lack of limestone and coal and possibly fear of Allied bombing.
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3. A new dry dock is now under construction at Hongkong. The site is the old parade and drill ground at the western end of the Naval Dockyard. The dock will be about 100 feet wide and perhaps some 650 feet long.
4. Four twin-screw diesel-engined military transport
ships are reported as under construction in Kowloon Dockyard, Hongkong. They are described as 200 feet
long