The Archive · 1908

ENGLISHMAN'S DISCOVERY

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discovery by that great-hearted Englishman, Captain Joseph Wiggins Othe way fate the Kate Sen, When our St. Petersburg correspondent, and the mouths of the Obi and Yenesei, is going to be profitably utilized by foreign combination of shippers, chief among whom isa Hamburg merchant called Stang, who has just applied to the Russian Ministry of Trade and Commerce for the usual permission to import goods into Siberia, duty free, by that northera route. The " Noroe Vremya" which announced on December 4 that this application had been made, says that by trading through the Kara Sea in 1905 foreign and Russian firms ined tens of. thousands of pounds sterling, " at the expense, of course, " it adds, "of Russian trade and of the

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