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"Old Manchuria."
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The enormous coal
field at Fushun (123.853E
41.841N) was
10 miles (16 km) long, 2 miles (3 km) wide, and 350 feet (100 m) thick,
and was producing 1.9
million tons a year in 1941. It had been exploited
since the 12th century, but the Japanese
established a
large mechanized open-pit mine here that supplied most of the coal for Manchuria by
1941. The coal beds originally
reached the surface to the west but were overlain by thick shale
deposits to
the east. The Japanese built extensive industrial facilities
in the area
and experimented with extraction of oil
from nearby oil
shale.
Fushun Massacre.
In the late summer of 1932, Japanese forces pursuing Manchurian
guerrillas massacred an estimated 2700
inhabitants of three villages
near Fushun. The victims were taken from their homes, lined up along
the edges of the main roads, and machine-gunned.
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