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“...to previous Report, Annual Series No. 4472.
Report on the Trade of the Port of Paklioi during the Year 1910
By Me. Acting-Consul A. G. Major.
General remarks.—The trade of the port of Pakhoi during the year
1910 shows a still further decline in comparison with that of 1909.
It has been waning for many years, and during the past year it has
not only had to contend with the permanently existing opposing
factors, namely, the lack of trade routes, the development of the
West River traffic via Nanning and Wuchow, and the proximity of
Haiphong and the free port of Kuang Chou Wan, but it has been further
temporarily depressed by drought, severely affecting two of its principal
exports, a bad recurrence of the plague epidemic in the spring and a
boycott of foreign shipping in the autumn. This last was due to the
improper seizure by the Chinese officials of a cargo of rice, which
had been shipped from Pakhoi to Hoihow by a native merchant in a
native junk, there being no foreign interest whatever...”
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