The "Japan Advertiser" says that Japanese wheat flour exported for the first six months of the present season, December, 1929,-May, 1930, amounted to 2,250,000 sacks, a re-auction of about 30 per cent, from 3,200,000 sacks for the same period fof the year before. All prevailing indications point to the possitie revival of the flour export trade.
Bar silver is stabilized at about 16 pence. Chicago wheat has dropped to the average pre-war price of 88 cents. Chinese merchants who have been holding off are beginning to carry on buying negotiations. Futures transactions are being steadily concluded.
Flour mills in Tientsin are not [working satisfactorily, due to the
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