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“...disappearing altogether from the 1909 return.
Complaints have reached the Consulate to the effect that certain
regulations of a restrictive nature affecting the foreign opium trade
were being enforced at Yangchow, and led to representations being-
made to the Viceroy at Nanking to the effect that foreign opium
should be excluded from the operation of any special regulations
applying to the wholesale trade, so that the legitimate interests of
British importers, as safeguarded by Article IV of the Chefoo
Convention, should not be unnecessarily interfered with.
Foreign cotton goods.A decrease will be noted in the following
articles, the numbers representing pieces:Grey plain shirtings,
53,431; American drills, 4,276 ; chintzes and furnitures, 3,664; cotton
prints, plain, 6,429; cotton Italians, plain, 14,506 ; cotton lastings,
figured, 14,804; Turkey-red cambrics, 1,194. The Shantung towns,
formerly supplied from Chinkiang, now receive their supplies via
Tsingtao direct and thence by rail. Plain...”
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