Nanking, Mar. 9.
The Shanghai "City Chamber "of (Commerce, ina petition to, the 'Ministries' of Communications end Industry, urges that @ new shipping route between China and the Straits Settlements be inaugurated by. the JChina Merchants Steam ' Navigation The petition was) Jdespatched at the request of the [Chinese "General Chamber of Come merce in. Singapore.
It is pointed out that, to promote [China's "foreign trade, an. exhibition Jot Chinese products will be held at Singapore on July 6 but, in order that Chinese. products may tind market abroad, the cost of production and transportation must be drestically. reduced, a3 only thus can they compete fairly with foreign products [Should foreign "shipping companies reduce their rates in competition with this new Chinese service, the message says, the Government should tier some form of subsidy. te. the IE, 34.8. N. Ca, 20 as to enable it overcome the diticulties of the initia! perled—Kuo Min.
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