Dairen, Nov. 24.
'A hectic rush to ship' goods into Manchoukuo from the Kwantung Leased Territory was witnessed before the revised Customs tariff proclaimed by the new State went into effect on Thursday.
Altogether 3,500 car-loads freight were shipped to Manchoukuo from Dairen in the ten days preceding the inauguration of the new taritt.
'The increase of shipments in the last week' of the old tariff was 98 er cent. above the figure for, the corresponding period last year and, in the words of a local "Japanese Journal, "the trate commotion was
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