In 1034 Japanese tonnage was stil neat the bottom of the shipping list. But under the new freight pool, and the improved: foreign relations of 1085, NAIK, rose to third place among Yangtze shippers in 1936, and for the first nine months of 1936, has climbed to second place, second only to government-operated China Merchants." Japanese tonnage in August, Sickness abounds. Funerals ore the order of the day and on two to three days running have coftr's been carried out of the same house, The numbers that died in child birth is appalling and malaria seems-to have
also avery great deal of typhoid.
young and old, in its gp "hers "Rice Is being taken' out of the culty in great quantities, such sales outside indicating that the poor are 1035 was roughly - 6,000 tons; in having to suffer, for the price of this August, 1936, 21,300 tons, And" the peculiarity of this rise is the receipts: while the tonnage increased 250 per cent. the freight receipts. rose less than 100 per cent. (from $62,000 Gi $115,000), indicating either that, rates. have not been maintained, else that a different kind of baying a lower tariff has been caf On the middle Yangtze this autumn, which hag shared in the recent the Altogether: are Shan Corp, leading.
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