Resulting from this change in the rate, and no doubt helped by the disturbed conditions at Vladivostok, beans moved south in rapidly increasing volume. In the month of October, the Chinese Eastern gave the South Manchuria at Changchun six times the tonnage of beans of the same month in 1921. November avd December showed heavy increases over the same month in the year preceding, but January showed a disconcerting reversal of the bean movement. Danish and other European exporters prefer to ship beans via Vladivostok. Despite the contract on which the South Manchuria Railway advanced ¥.1,000,000 to the Chinese Eastern Railway the rate to Vladivostok remained lower than that to Dairen. Cars loaded with beans om the Chinese Eastern go direct to Vladivostok without change, while,
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