Your search within this document for 'manchuria' resulted in ten matching pages.
1

“...6 Table of the Open Ports of China, with Estimated Chinese Population of each Port and Provincecontinued. Population. Shansi ... ) Shensi ... | Kansu .... 55,000,000 Honan ... I Kweichow J Total population of China (including Manchuria)... ... ... 439,214,000 Note.British Consular officers are stationed at the ports marked with an asterisk (*), and also at the following provincial capitals :Moukden (Manchuria), Tsinan (Shantung), Chengtu (Szechuan) and Yunnanfu (Yunnan). The above estimates of population are adopted from the customs returns, except in the case of a few treaty ports where estimates different from those of the customs have been supplied by His Majestys Consuls. Chinese census returns are not to be trusted, and foreign estimates vary widely. Thus, for instance, the population of Szechuan, appearing above as 79,500,000, was estimated by Sir A. Hosie in 1904 as 45,000,000, while in Bichards Geography of the Chinese Empire it is quoted, according to the official census of...”
2

“...figure of 1908, and even the imports, in spite of the continued operation of the adverse circumstances noted for 1908, were second only to those of 1905, the net value for 1909 being 418,000,000 Haikuan taels as compared with 395,000,000 Haikuan taels in 1908 and 447,000,000 Haikuan taels in 1905. The customs revenue, particulars of which will be found in Tables 17 and 18, was also greater than in any previous year except 1906, the increase being specially in exports and chiefly derived from Manchuria and the northern ports. Despite the failure of the spring crops in Shantung from drought, destructive summer and autumn floods in Hupei and other local or temporary disasters, such as cannot fail to be recorded annually in some part or other of the vast area of China, the general productiveness was well up to the average, and the country was able to take full advantage of the new demand in Europe for agricultural products, such as beans and sesamum, in addition to the older staples of silk and...”
3

“...1906. i | 1907. 1908. 1909. Pieces. Pieces. Pieces. Pieces. British 10,785,227 8,224.951 8,993,534 10,691,448 American 8,544,165 578,647 1,586,989 3,856,231 Japanese 733,436 840,401 986,982 1.396,297 Indian i 85,003 67,905 141,312 133,855 The increase in Japanese piece-goods hardly affects British products, but Japanese heavy shirtings and drills compete severely with the American goods of the same class. This competition is chiefly felt in Manchuria, where Japanese sheetings and drills are gaining on American. The demand for imports in Manchuria, which is increasing as a natural consequence of the flourishing condition of exports in that part of the Empire, makes the conditions of international rivalry there a matter of anxious concern to foreign traders. Some British merchants are apt to believe that the benefits accruing from the...”
4

“...12 CHINA. development of imports in Manchuria will all go into Japanese pockets* for undoubtedly the Japanese traders, in virtue of numbers and adaptability, have an enormous advantage over Europeans in penetrating into the country. It may be assumed, however, that British goods are, on the whole, better than Japanese, and a more hopeful attitude in face of Japanese commercial astuteness and success may be justified by the reflection that already in regard to many foreign commodities in China, tastes have been created by Japanese traders among native purchasers which lead to a demand for better qualities than satisfied these purchasers at first, and cheap inferior goods of Japanese or other make have opened the way for the more solid and expensive products of the British manufactory. Yarn.Indian yarn meets with an increasing competition from Japanese, but Japanese yarn in its turn appears to be subjected to a still closer competition, especially in the north of China, from the products...”
5

“...be made throughout the Empire in undertakings requiring machinery. Electric lighting, &c.During the year 1909, electric lighting contracts were given out for new installations at Chungking, Chengtu, Changsha, Nanking and Ningpo, and for more or less important 'extensions at Shanghai (settlements and native city), Hankow, Peking, Swatow, Moukden and other places. Negotiations were going on at the beginning of 1910 for a large installation at Hangchow and for installations in several cities in Manchuria. Indeed there may be said to be an electric lighting project in every city in China (although at Pakhoi the project is stated to have been abandoned in view of the successful introduction of incandescent mantles) ; the only difficulty is to find funds for carrying such projects into execution. Almost all contracts require to be financed by the contractors, and British firms, finding British manufacturers unwilling to supply plant except for cash down, have sometimes co-operated with German firms...”
6

“...electric lighting also cannot fail to have an effect on the demand for kerosene oil. Sugar.The import of foreign sugar is to some extent an index of prosperity, and from this point of view the increase in 1909 is encouraging. To judge from the returns of Newchwang, the only port of Manchuria of which the statistics are as yet to hand, the increased import is as might be expected specially noteworthy in the Manchurian provinces, whose natural resources are being developed more rapidly than those of any other part of the Empire. Ninety per cent, of the actually foreign sugar imported into Newchwang in 1909 was Hong-Kong refined sugar, the balance being Japanese. The production of beet sugar in North Manchuria has not yet affected the market. Exports.As already noted, the value of exports (in currency) was 23 per cent, greater than in any previous year. The increase was due not only to the low and steady exchange and to the high prices that ruled for nearly all native products, but also to...”
7

“...Continental ports) at 68,522 tons (English) and the amount exported from Shanghai to Europe at 74,583 tons. The total shipments to Europe from Manchuria (including Vladivostok) and the Yangtse Valley in 1909, according to the above figures, would amount to 518,000 tons. The total export of beans from China to Japan in 1909, according to the Chinese customs report, was 5,886,905 cwts. (or 294,345 tons). The shipments to Europe from Dairen alone from November, 1909, to April, 1910, amounted to 250,000 tons (of 2,000 lbs.) against 94,000 tons during the corresponding period in 1908-09. Thus there is every indication that the bean trade of 1909-10 will surpass that of the former season. Although the crop is not so good, the area of cultivation is considerably larger. It was pointed out in last year's report that the purchase of beans in the interior of Manchuria is an operation involving no small difficulty and financial risk. The effect of the keen competition which naturally followed the successful...”
8

“...gives a net import of bar silver into Shanghai in 1909, after deducting about 350,000?. re-exported to India, of 2,300,000?. against a net import of 850,000?. in 1908. This was the largest import in one. year since 1900, when the military operations created abnormal conditions. In order to meet the requirements of the expanding export trade and for Government purposes, shipments of sycee to a value of some 2,450,000?.* were made from Shanghai to the Yangtse provinces and to Chihli, Shantung and Manchuria. Notwithstanding this large consumption, the amount of silver at the command of the foreign banks in Shanghai at the end of 1909 was equivalent to over 2,086,000?.,* an unusually large supply. During 1909 about 187,000?.* in sycee returned to Shanghai, and much of the silver sent up country last year is now returning to Shanghai to pay for imports. Shipping.The generally vigorous condition of the export trade and especially the extraordinary increase in the export of pulse caused a brisk demand...”
9

“...20 eitiiiA. As regards the coasting trade, the year, aithough bad, was not so. bad as 1908. The autumn crops were late, but trade was brisk from November onwards. The vessels engaged in the coast trade at the end of the year were fairly well employed and tonnage was scarce. The profits of the Manchuria bean trade accrued chiefly to the ocean shipping, and coasters derived no direct advantage therefrom, although they must, of course, share in the general increase of prosperity which this trade will cause. The carriage of salt from northern ports to the Yangtse, a distinguishing feature of the 1908 shipping business, was continued in 1909, but was found unprofitable, rates of freight being low and delays without compensation frequent. The chief advantage this traffic afforded to the regular lines was the taking up of loose tonnage, Norwegian tramps and the like, which would otherwise have cut into the regular trade. The demand for tonnage for coal from Japan to China, on which British shipowners...”
10

“... Hong-Kong for South China and abroad 107,175 Wuhu, Kowloon ... Germany, &c., and to Hong-Kong for abroad 1,064 Hankow ... Japan, &c. 2,530 Kiukiang (before 1909 Kiukiang ramie was classed as hemp) Japan 2,735 Tientsin United States, &c. 9,128 Hankow (1909 figures include the fibre from Kiukiang, formerly classed as hemp) Belgium, France, &c. 193,962 Canton, Kowloon Hong-Kong for United States Manchurian frontier Russia Ningpo, &c. Hong-Kong 956,277 Shanghai Foreign export only from Manchuria to Russia Tientsin, Swatow... Hong-Kong, Straits, &c. Canton, Kiaochow, &c Hong-Kong, Straits, &c. Canton Hong-Kong for India, Straits, &c. 21,175 Swatow, Kiukiang Corea, and to Hong-Kong for abroad 18,304 Chinkiang, Chefoo, Tientsin Direct export to Europe beginning Tientsin, Canton, Swatow Hong-Kong (for France, United States and United Kingdom) and to United Kingdom 4,251,271 Tientsin, Ningpo... France, &c. 644,502 Ningpo United Kingdom, France and United States 688 Hankow, Canton...”