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            <text>From: Hanai (DECOUX)
To: Vichy (Colonies)
18 July 1944
FST

No. 4193-4196

4 Parts Complete

For the Admiralty

The (7Commanding Officer of the Navy?) has brought
me word of your (Treluctance?) to reserve to the (Varsenal?)
all our electric --G-- without possibility of granting its
services to outsiders except in exceptional cases.

I am convinced that, if I set forth to you the exact
situation as concerns electric-power supply in the Saigon-
Cholon district, that will be sufficient to cause you to re-
consider your decision, which, if held to --G--, would result
in the most serious consequences.

The district is ordinarily supplied with electric
power from the CNG QTAB plant of the COMPAGNIE DES EAUX ET
ELECTRICITE. But the available power of 7,000 kilowatts
with a daily peak of 5,000 kilowatts. This reduction in
power is due to progressive wear on the machinery, notably
the boilers, which, in spite of urgent requests on our part
to the Japanese authorities, have had no replacement parts in
three years.

During recent months this wearing-out has been acute,
and trouble with the firing has become more frequent, because
of partial substitution (Part B) of replacement fuels for coal,
transporting of which has been suspended as a result of des-
truction of railroad lines and almost complete stoppage of sea
connections between the North and the South.

The extreme difficulty caused by the reduction of power
has been made still worse by the scant margin maintained
between power available and power used. Thus, every break-
down means a partial halt in the service.

To meet this situation various measures have been
adopted: At the SINH TAY plant of the Indo-China Distributors,
installation of a 1,200 kilowatt turbo-alternator unit, taken
from CNG QTAB so as to utilize the available firing-power of
the boilers at BALLE PADDY; at Cholon, installation of a
500-kilowatt diesel unit sent by the Central at Cantino.

Examination Unit,

-File D-5264-</text>
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