Good Facilities Assist Predominance Fast Ove Own Conusronoext Hongkong, Mar. 38.
British trade in South China is ahead of other countries because of the shipping, warehouse and other facilities provided at Hongkong. This statement Is admitted by an official of the Foreign Trade Committee of the South-west Political Council Imports from Great Britain are mostly cotton and woollen goods, machinery, bicycles, iron and steel, Serges and worsted." The Kuangtung Provincial Government has ordered British machinery for its new am. monia plant and additional textile machinery from Oldham, England for the silk Weaving factory in Canton, While the imports of American goods to China as a whole take first Place, its imports to South China Fanks second place. As shipped to Hongkong, American goods consist of machinery, agricultural products, motor cars, typewriters, radio recelv= Ing sets, flour, ete. The appreciation of the Hongkong dollar and the @ecline of the pound sterling and
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