Boom in Shipments of Cargo from Southampton Southampton, Feb. 4.
There is every indication of a trade boom between England and the Dutch East Indies, in which Southampton will play an important part. Tooday the Nederland Royal Mail liner Prius der Nederlanden nailed for Batavia with her bolds full of cargo. The vessst loaded ego consignment placed aboard at Amsterdam, There was a consider= table volume of trade which tke ship could not take. Antici the loading brokers to land. Royal Mail ampton, Messrs, arranged for a relief steamer, the Gorontalo, to call and load the 1900 tons left behind. The boom exports has caused arrangements be made for n second relief steamer a fortnight's time. The earg> *Jearried by the Prius der Nederlandfon included 800 tons of Manchester min pices goods and machinery:
used in the development of the and rubber estates in Java matra, The cotton orders included 2,500 cases each valued at constant evidence that her participation is impossible. would have been undignified for Europe to appeal further and the latter set herself to help herself in her own way but if America willing to ce-operate in other ways her aid would be welcomed. the meantime Europe is in nowise such evil condition as Mr. Houghton paints. "Slowly, sometimes with sharp, instructive re-Tapaes, the statesmen and people ave struggling in a score of ways te forge the difficult guarantees of peace," the paper asserts in conclu. ssion,—Reuter's American Service.
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