Fears that exports and business in general in Shanghai will be seriously affected when through trame on the Canton-Hankow line is opened, are expressed by local observers here, the "Sin Wen Pao" says.
In the past, all the products of Hupeh, "Hunan, "Honan and other interior "provinces were sent. 10 Shanghai to be exported abroad, while imports were sent Inland. chiefly through Shanghai, and up the Yangtze River.
'With the settlement of the Kwangtung issue, the new line linking Can-fon and 'Hankow. will shortly be opened and this, it Is believed, whi seriously affect' Shanghat's trade, Most of the products, it Is feared, will be shipped overland to Canton' and the linking of the Canton-Kowloon railway with the _Canton-Hankow me, will facilitate the shipment of goods to Europe through Hongkong.
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