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“...489 Haikuan taels or 9,999,574?.
net value) falls short of the 10,982,329?. assigned to 1905. But, apart
from the fact that 10,982,329?. at 3s. Oy1,Td., the average rate for 1905,
is only 73,127,169 Haikuan taels, it has been repeatedly shown in
these reports that the trade for 1905 was unnaturally inflated by
causes directly attributable to the Russo-Japanese war. Mr. Consul
Tebbitt, in his report for 1906, mentions the " great demand for
commodities created by the huge contending armies in Manchuria,"
and Mr. Consul Fulford, in that for 1905, states that the country
had been denuded of its stock of foreign goods during the stagnation
caused by the war in 1904. That stock had to be made good, and
in the process speculation swelled the purchases of importers far
more than the real requirements of the market justified. How
unnatural the conditions of 1905 were is immediately seen on observing
that in that year imports, foreign and native, instead of their normal
excess of some 20 per cent...”
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“...be seen that rather more beans were sent to Hong-Kong
and to the Dutch Indies in 1911 than in the previous year, but very
much less to Japan. Other Chinese ports also took less, the loss,
however, falling entirely on the steamer-borne portion of the trade,
for the export by junk shows a notable increase. While in 1910,
66,000 cwts. of beans were shipped direct to Copenhagen, no beans
left Newchwang direct for any European port in 1911. The moral
probably is that the total bulk of trade from Manchuria both to
foreign countries and along the China coast is increasing, but that
facilities of handling, advantages of winter climate, &c., tend to divert
it to Dairen rather than to retain it at Newchwang, these advantages
operating more markedly on the large ocean-going vessels engaged
in the foreign trade, which are better able to load at Dairen than
here.
To judge by the figures for bean cake and bean oil, the local bean
mills of Newchwang would seem to have enjoyed a prosperous year.
One of...”
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“...towards Aigun projected
(see map).
Export of seeds and cereals fluctuates according to the relative
state of harvests and markets in this and other parts of China. Wheat
is not widely grown in this district, but in 1910 it was exported to
the extent of 90,514 cwts., mostly to Japan for milling purposes,
the price of flour from the United States and Canada at that time
being .high. This wheat seems to have been bought for delivery in
Newchwang, but to have been partly grown in the north of Manchuria
and partly imported from Shantung by junk. In 1911 the export
was only 3,638 cwts. In value the decrease is even more striking,
from 27,6492. to 4262., but the latter figure possibly excludes consign-
ments sent to Central China for famine relief which appear in the
statement of quantity. In any case, wheat was only exported from
Newchwang in 1911 during the first week of April, except one lot of
7 cwts. that was sent to Lungkow in May.
The unfortunate harvest conditions which led to the imposition...”
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“...(if export list is correct),
1,186 cwts. ; medicinal wines, vermicelli, earthenware and mats. '
Russia. Pacific ports.—Imports, 919?.; exports, 6,672?., chiefly coal,
with small quantities of dried shrimps and other minor sundries.
But 'in addition to these officially recorded articles, Vladivostok took
35,914tons and Nikolaevsk or other ports on the Amur River 2,319 tons
of salt, whose value is unrecorded. This salt is not for consumption
in Russia but recrosses the frontier into Northern Manchuria, &c.
Another shipment of 800 tons appears on the list as sent to Chinkiang.
It appears to have been detained and unloaded there by the revolu-
tionary authorities but was, I understand, originally meant for
reshipment to Vladivostok.
Continent of Europe.—I have been able to trace the following
shipments to European Continental ports :—
To Antwerp : bean oil, 12,119 cwts. in three shipments.
To Rotterdam : sesamum seed, 15,476 cwts. in five shipments;
also 200 cwts. tin clippings.
To Marseilles...”
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“...the coolies they can
find space for on board and it is practically impossible to check the
numbers effectively at either end. But, taking the statistics for
what they are worth, they show 125,423 native passengers arrived,
of whom 48,498 were from Lungkow and Tengchow, while 69,783
left, of whom 34,274 were to these two ports. In 1910, 57,242 arrived
from and 35,278 left for these places.
Railway traffic was impeded earlier, longer and probably more
seriously than steamer traffic. The South Manchuria Railway
established an isolation station near its Newchwang terminus, where
passengers of the coolie class were kept under observation, and in
many other ways restricted travel. The measures taken by the
Imperial Railways of North China were even more stringent. At a
later time, in view of the impossibility of detaining on board ship
passengers arriving by steamer, the Chinese authorities built another
and more extensive isolation barracks at the seaward end of the town,
but the buildings were...”
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“...the Association for Public
Safety (Pao-an Hui) organised by the native officials, gentry and
trade guilds on a non-partisan basis at the outset of the revolution,
the immunity of this port from serious rioting and disturbance may
be attributed.
Public worlcs.—The scheme for the improvement and conservancy
of the Liao River, after maturing so far as to become the subject of
a provisional agreement, signed in July by the Taotai and members
of the Consular body and forwarded to the Viceroy of Manchuria
and the Diplomatic Corps for final revision and sanction, was un-
fortunately held up, first by unforeseen objections raised by the
Chinese authorities in Mukden and then by the exigencies of the
general political situation. It has consequently not yet been approved
and put into operation. It is to be hoped that negotiation on the
unsettled points will soon be resumed and pressed to a satisfactory
issue, for the future prosperity of this port largely depends on a con-
servancy scheme being promptly...”
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