Official interference with produce transactions ut Harbin have serious ly obstructed the operations of pro duce dealers there. The mills have been very hardly hit and during the past fortnight about 20 out of the 43 mills have closed up altogether. Although the Harbin dollar keeps falling, the authorities insist upon those handing produce adding to their expenses by obtaining certificates against transactions. The demand from abroad has slackened and, to make matters worse, the millers have had to increase' the weight of a beancake to 29 kin instead of the usual 20 kin, in order to provide for shrinkage sult of this past season' being largely soaked.
In the meanwhile, 40 produce dealers and forwarding agents at Shanchengtzu Station, on the Mukden-Hailungkiang line, have practically closed their business since the 19th inst., from resentment over the outrageous activities of the men in the service of the Tungfang pro duce firm, which is financed" by Gen. Chang Tso-hsiang, of Kirin. In consequence of all this, there has been a big accumulation of goods at Shanchengtzu, to the annoyance of traders ard' the railway people,
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