Carlowitz and Krupp Offer Barter Arrangement Peiping, Mar. 18.
Three Germans representing the Carlowitz Company. in Tientsin aad the Krupp Company in Tokyo, both German firn visited Japanese diplomatic representatives in Peiping yesterday and asked them to use their good offices in trade transactions in North China by means of a barter tem.
The German concerns desire to export machinery and materials for railway construction to North China and to import raw cotton, wool and peanuts from China, thus improving the trade relations between North China and Germany.
They are ready to accept the new bank notes issued by the "Federal Reserve Bank" of China and reserve them in North China as clearing funds for imports of raw materials from North China—Domei
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