Goods sent into the interior include coal, fertilizer, grains, sugar, matches, candles, tobacco, iron-pans, paper and old newspapers, the daily reported, while goods brought from upriver consisted chiefly of wheat and rice and other grains, Since all the goods for the interior, except those consigned to the Japanese forees, are for the consumption of Chinese, there being no foreign interests along the route, the company has enjoyed a monopoly, the paper said. Requests have been made to the Central China Development Com. pany, the parent company, to provide mere bottoms, the daily added. Out of the 40,000 shares of the Shanghai Inland Steamship Company, 12,000 are owned by the C.C.D.C.
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