Figures since 1927
To, the Editor of the "Nosta-Cuina Dany News."
SmI have been reading many times' the same story—in "newspapers, commercial reports, consular reports and. what not—that trade in China has increased and increased year by year and especial: probably only what he has "heard" as "everybody has heard from The Chairman of the General Chamber of Commerce has pointed coe ce Gamer, national. trade at Shanghai has been increasing—Chinese domestic upheaval has not spoiled that busi-
Qualities of Evidence fcarer—talen from To the Editor of the aitterent story?
"Nonta-CuiNa DasLy. News.
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T hope, that, the datas given in this letter will help to make it lear fo all, Ynterested in Trade well as in China's fature that a though China lives "ona silver basis". statistical "datas should expressed. in silver and gold lorder to arrive at a fair conclusion las to progress or setbacks in Trade There is no doubt. that China's export arid import dia not increase [during the last. fow years but: dee fereased, partly on account of civil wars ete, ete. in China and party, lon account' of the "silver crash'—especially since 1980—also on count of the world depression.
However, there is every reason to expect & substantial increase in Import and Export—as soon, as the world "depression is over—and especially, if conditions" im the Interior of China got more settled again.
W. 0, Mororus, Mar. 22, 198
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