First Shipload Dispatched from Port Campana For the first time in the history of the coal trade in the Orient, 'a. shipment of 5,700 tons of Indo China indubitable anthracite has been received in the United States from Port Campana, near Haiphong, according (o information received in Shanghai on Apr. 15. This cargo the first portion of a total orde for 300,000 tons, all of which will be dispatched to Boston and other American East-coast ports during this year.
While Indo-China coal is popular both in Japan and China, with a regular inport trade being maine tained with Shanghai, no effort ever has been made previously to Place it on the American market, although the United States is known the most cosmopolitan fuel con-Suming country in the world. The first shipment as sent on the Brit ish tramp steamer St. Quentin, a vessel of 2,210 registered tons owned by the St Quentin Shipping Ca., and registered out of Newcastle.
'At the present time, in addition to Indo-China, the port of Boston receives coal' shipments from Poland, Scotland, Wales, Holland, Germany, England and Russia, The Indo-China anthracite enter into direct competition with these other products, it is declared, especially Swansea coal of a similar grade. No announcement, as yet, has been made as to the names of the addi-tonal ships chartered for this run, nor the principals involved.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.