Tank from Batum Here with Huge Shipment Flying the Soviet, flag the motor tanker Norvinn docked late yesterday afternoon at the plant of the Kwang Wha Petroleum Company, Ltd., with the first complete shipment of Soviet Kerosene ever brought to China. The Norvinn arrived here 34 days out from Batum, on the Black Sea, where her cargo, said to total 3,100,000 gallons, was pumped aboard from the vast Soviet petroleum installation at that port In addition to her arrival marking the invasion of Russian petro-Jeum products in the Orient, the Norvinn is the first vessel to arrive here flying the red flag since diplomatic relations between the Soviets and China were severed in 1927. That the invasion of Soviet] 3 oil eventually may precipitate price war in China in the petroleum market is a possibility, feared by interests in close touch with the situation. At the present time, however, this shipment merely serves to replace monthly imports of 1,500,000 gations of independent American kerosene formerly brought from California by the Kwang Wha company, which, hereafter, as the sole representatives in China for the Soyuzneft, as the Soviet Naptha Trust is generally known, will handle the Russian product exclusively, The cargo of the Novinn, which sailed from Batum on September 22, will be pumped into tanks provided for this purpose by the Kwang Wha. conetrn, after which it is expected that the oil will be cased in five gallon tins for transport into the interior of China where the company operates numerous agencies.
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