Tokyo, Feb, 2.
The oficial figures for trade in January show that exports amount. fed to Yen 143,000,000 and imports to Yen 188,000,000 compared with Yen 141,000,000 and Yen 192,000, 000, respectively, for the corres~ ponding period last year.
The total trade, therefore, shows 'a reduction of Yen 2,000,000, but the adverse balance has been reduced by Yen 6,000,000.—Reuter Acconorxe to a Hankow telegram to the Chinese papers, the Peking~ Hankow Railway has been re-opened between that city and Chengchow.
Tae Kiangsu Provincial Govern: meat has approved the plans sutmitted by the Woosung—Waterways Bureau for the deepening of parts of Woosung Creek and the reclamation of others, states the ton arriving from up-country, The up-country markets have mot resumed business to any extent since the holidays at the moment. Cloth has remained steady and Clearani have been reasonably good.
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