9th August. From advance sheets of U.S. Consular Reports kindly sent us by Mr. John Fowler, the energetic U. S, Consul at Chefio, we get a brief but striking summary of the effect of the Boxer trouble on the trade of the United States with Northern Chi and it must be remembered, as Mr. Fowler says, that the scene of strife covered practically the U.S. field of trade. Mr. Fowler his report by saying: "The ing in North China broke out, vell known, in the month of the Press of the entire since, that time been full the events that transpired in this section, They have red nearly every phase of this while we know how suffered in' North China, I have seen any statistics published showing the loss _involved to merchants in the United and, believing that such statistics, taken from the Chi Customs returns, will prove of T submit the following as what the Boxers cost the American exporter."
he comparative imports of American goods ur Chefoo for the second quarter of the respective years were as under +1899. 1900.
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