Fire which threatened to envelop the entire ship was extinguished fon August 4 in the bunkers of the Ellerman Line freighter City of Pekin which put into San Fran cisco while bound from Los Augeles to Shanghai in Trade Grows Fast Imports by China of wheat from Canada increased 400 per cent. during 1928-24, stated Hon. J. King, of Ottawa, Canadian Minter of Public Works, who in visit-the Pacific Coast: He predict-a further increase in Orient China is certain to become a really large importer of Canadian wheat, said the minister,
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