Comment among Shanghai merchants ea the official list of regulations which are to govern th removal of foreign cargo lying at Tsingtao seems on the whole to b favourable, though it is pointed out that two or three of the clause: appear somewhat vague, and further developments must be awaited before their futerpretation can b.
"As far as can be seen," a business man directly interested observed to one of our representa. tives, "the regulations are reasonable, and ought not to give much difficulty, if properly carried out. At present the cargo at Tsingtao is completely mixed up, and the first step must be to separate the various consignments. Then the Proper owner must be found, and naturally full proofs of any claim put forward will be asked for. It is not avite clear what documents are actually required, but. from this, the clearing of the coree should proceed without much difficulty.""
Some further regulations, not included in the list which we published yesterday, obviously have a political bearing; such, for example as the conditions that apjlicatios for cargo must be made in Japanese, and that payments mart b. nade in silver yen, their "fect being to establish the Japancee currency, make the use of the Japanese language general, and give employment to as many panoss as possible. But such regulations, apart from their political aspect, would not necessarily interfere with business relations: with regard to cargo in question.
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