Harbin, Jan, 27.
The figures for the total shipments on the C.E.R. for all kinds goods during the year 1933 show a [total decrease of 3,725,000 metric itens, or 22.7 per cen against 19382, lor 56.6 per cent. og inst 1929, the reatest decrease being in commer-_ cial traffic.
The railway's expenditure also has very considerably delerensed, consequently the loss is not Iso heavy as it might have been and in any case the traffic of the year 1933 has tarned out to be slightly la hove the estimates made in the autumn of 1982, when appearances Iwere extremely bad, importance' of grain and shipments in the. general ltratic of alway diminished (considerably during 1938 and the: {figures for export are very. much Ness than they were in previous years, though at the same time the
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