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SHANGHAI.
to the possibility of a profitable trade with China, large quantities
of wheat and flour coming from the former, and the latter seeking by
an improved steamship service to find a new outlet for its farm
produce. The opening of the Manchurian ports of Antung and
Tairen promise greater facilities for the trade with Manchuria as
soon as political conditions have resumed their normal aspect.
The organisation of a mail service via, Siberia, which now collects
and delivers letters on regular dates, with a 21-day service with
London, promises closer touch with the home markets. Shanghai
asserts itself year by year also as an industrial city of increasing
importance. In addition to the various cotton mills, silk filatures,
cigarette, soap and glass factories, there has been a new develop-
ment in the treatment of ramie fibre. The experiment is not at
present sufficiently advanced to furnish much definite information,
but a regidar supply of raw material is being obtained, and after...”
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