Reel 17427 - Page 1626

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Reel 17427 - Page 1626

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1941/1945

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fra

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But still the contribution of the Arsenal must be dispensed with. The available resources in BALLEY FACILITIES do not provide for utilization of the NINH TAY installations at all times. It has been so of late. Moreover the supplying CHO COAN with coal remains very (Part 3) (Ttenuous); substitute fuels have less calorific power than coal. The available power at CHO COAN will be adjusted again by this, and probably brought back up to 9,000 kilowatts.

It is vitally important to facilitate as much as may be the enlargement of the margin of available power, so as to avoid cutting off the current, frequent instances of which have had most deplorable effects on the continuity of operation of the most essential industries. Therefore the functioning of the Arsenal as a producer of electric current cannot at present be reduced to its proportions of normal times.

Under the circumstances we are experiencing all activities are solidly and closely dependent on each other. The restrictions on electric power consumption in Saigon-Cholon are such right now that I cannot consider tightening them. The pooling of all resources of production is indispensable.

It is still less conceivable for the Arsenal to function independently since it is still dependent upon the general network when its Diesel unit is deficient; and how incongruous it would be if it should refuse, in case of need, to offer the services which it itself receives when it is in difficulties. (Part 4) I may add that it would be all the more surprising since a large share of its consumption of electricity is used for projects concerned, not with Indo-China itself, but with the Japanese Navy.

Therefore the Arsenal must by all means cooperate, to the extent of its present resources, in serving the network.

In the matter of the 480-kilowatt Diesel unit, I could not authorize its acquisition by the arsenal if the arsenal were to reserve it for its own use. It is necessary that this unit be used to reinforce the overall organization of electric power production in the Saigon-Cholon district. But the purchase of the 480-kilowatt Diesel unit by the Navy is interesting, and it is desirable (independently of the present circumstances) in order to allow in normal times a totally independent functioning of the arsenal such as would be impossible with its present lone unit, which frequently needs to be stopped for maintenance work and testing; whereas its use by the arsenal would only be a source of useless complications at the present time, and in the future a pointless move, since leading it into the network is possible only on a poor basis because of the voltage.

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