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Show A9IA'8 NATURAL WEALTH. Potential wealth in minerals has long been credited to Asia. With -. modern mothods of exploitation the j disclosure of such wealth, and its ff entrance into the competitive field, 1 will affect history in many ways. 0 News comes from Washington that 1 Japan has tapped a deposit of bitu- I minous coal at Fushun, extending I len miles east and west, with 1,000,- 000 tons in sight, tho fuel being adapted to locomotives, and, to a ,-lesser ,-lesser degree, for steamships. v |