hes been made and that various manufactories of different sorts have been established and appear to he flourishing. Besides the merely local trades such as printing, baking, ice making, the supply of gas, electric light, water, ete., and the semilocal. i.e., those for the supply of a limited area, such as carriage building, furniture making, ete., several real manufactories are'fo be found whose products are intended to compete with the products of the world. Among these are shipbuilding yards, silk filatures, cotton ginning, spinning and weaving mills, paper mills, match factories, photolitho-cleanest-looking products. Of all the Shanghai industries the silk industry is the one which makes its existence most widely known by the presence of its pro-fand in fact all over the world. ducts in the markets of Europe and America,
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