20,000 Cases Form Part of Cargo of Freighter Twenty thousand cases of tinned crab meat, the largest shipment of this commodity ever to leave the Far East at one time, formed par of the cargo of the States freighter Oregon, Captain George Erbe, Master, on her last voyage from Shanghai and other Oriental ports to the Pacific Coast, it was learned here on Jan, 10.
'The crab' meat was tinned Japanese canneries at Vindivostok, to which port the crabs wore taken from far Northern fishing grounds in the Bering and Okhotsk Seas, it ig stated. " Consigned to. San Francisco, the meat will be dist buted throughout the United Star where it now constitutes one of the most popular food product ported into that country from the Orient and is said, practically, to have displaced the locally tinned crab on the American market. Starting a few years ago with an experimental shipment of a few cases, the trade has attained exeeptional proportions in this short period, exporters declare, Tu addition to the 20,000 cases, the Oregon also included 1,000 tons of Manchurian cotton inher cargo for the United States,
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