Tokyo, Mar. 15. learned from the Department of Communications that with a view to expanding Japan's cotton yarns and tissue market the Goverment has decided to grant a subsidy of 400,000 ts an East African Coast! service, which will require—the employment of three 6,000 ton vessels running to Colombo, Mombasa, Zanzibar, Mozambique and Durban. It is expected that either the Osaka Shosen Kaisha or the Nippon Yusen Kaisha will carry out the service, though it is understood that} the former company is not williua, so unless the subsidy doubled—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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