Dealing with shipping in. his intreductory report on foreign trade to the Chinese Maritime Customs statistics for 1921, Mr. J. W. H. Ferguson states: tonnage likewise made excellent progress from 98,864 to 212,750 tons. The German flag appears again for the first time since 1917, with four vessels aggregating 2,916 tons."
Regarding the references above, it may be mentioned that the tables, accompanying the report, credit China with a tonnage of 31,791,479, which places her second on the list, with roughly 50,000 tons more than Japan. The tonnage of all nations was 114,619,544.
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