The British Acting Consal at Harbin reports as follows, under date of Nov. 7, An exact idea of the total quant of @ season's crop is difficalt to at #0 early a date, bat the opinion generally held by foreign exporting flems in Harbin is that the resalts of 140 March delivery. this season's harvest will not fall short. of those of 1910, this couclasion being based on the argoment that the damage done by the summer floods, which was less extensive in Northern than in Southern Mancharia, was amply cot pensated by the increased ares of La brought under bean cultivation daring the teaton under review.
According to Chinese reporte, the season's harvest was only "50 per cent lew which does not find fsvoar the foreign firms, who incline belief that the Chiacee intentionally under-estimate in the hope that high prices may be maintained. The estimate of the Russian Chamber of Commerce in Harbin of the quantity of beans available for export out of the 1910 crop was 24-28 million pouode
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