An item referred to the newspaper Jap. Chr. Dated 3 May 1934 reporting that Japan was buying old scrap world wide. At that moment were agents searching in the British West Indies for old sugar engines now rusting in the sugar cane fields. Thousands of tons were collected for transport towards Japan. In Canada were old railway rails, boilers and so on bought.(1)
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1. For instance were also Dutch merchant ships like the Tjipondok bought to be scrapped in Japan.
