stuff, which is gradually thinned down and twisted into the yarn of different thicknesses. Machinery partly British, partly Jap. [Japanese], Electr.[Electricity] installation British. Testing lab: machine for finding tensile strength. Counting of strands to see if they are according to specification. A little weaving is done – 4 hand looms – only used for supplying staff. Special room where newcomers are instructed by skilled workers. Factory is on outskirts of town, adjacent to surrounding hills and has a series of tunnels into the hills for air raid shelters. Some machines housed there in. Factory spacious + fairly clean; electric lighting. Halls some 60 feet broad and about 8 times as long. Lunch at Mohammedan restaurant. In the afternoon went with CY [Ch’iu Ch’iung-yun, Qiu Jiongyun] and Miss Foote to the 2nd War District Arsenal; under provincial govt. of Shansi (directed by Gen Yen Hsi-shan); approved by Central Govt. (big document) + so comes indirectly under Yu Ta-wei. Make light machine guns, 150 per month, steel comes from CK [Chungking?] in blocks of reqd. [requisitioned? required?] dimensions; rolled not cast, because they tried cast and found too many holes. Prime mover for all the belts is a locomotive engine pounding away. Water Tanks beside it. Planing, rifling, drilling, cutting machines, English and American. Factory was at Tai Yuan, cap. of Shansi province; evacuated here. Used to produce 5000 a month and bullets too. Here some of the drilling