While this and the other arrangements referred to continue, the trade formerly carried on by the German steamship companies will be split up between-a number of concerns. Apparently the Cunard Line intends to do what emigrant traffic there will be,, while other well known British companies appear to have captured a good deal of the former German carr ing trade to the East—to mention only one direction. All this recent activity in shipping arrangements in which German firms have figured is to be of the first importance to Germany. She will probably dislike seeing her former ocean trade in foreign hands, but the fact that these aliens are now supplying her with carrying facilities means the opportunity to resunie her industrial life upon which her hopes—and those of others looking for indemnities—rest, A Hongkong Chinese has secured permission from the Tuchun of Canton to survey the east part of Heungshan district with engineers for the purpose of constructing a tram line between Shaki (capital of the district) and Chinshan, (a town four miles from Macao), The total length is about 40 niles.
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