Ld., in their review of the tea trade for the year 1913-14, write as follows about China tea:—Exports from China have a declined, Russia and the United Kingdom being the only countries which have taken more China tea this year than last. The amount which reached the Chinese ports was less than last year. Less tea reached Hankow than during any season for the past 40 years. This was partly owing, no doubt, to there having been an over-supply last year, and partly to the unsettled state of the interior and the uncertainty of safe transport, but Consular reverts state that a great deal of the land formerly under tea has gone out of cultivation, and that even in some of the best producing dis-
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