Tsingtao merchants are not even granted the normal financing. facllities, documents being sent to destination for collection, the bank refusing to purchase the documents for cash or credit, nor will they. grant overdraft. In other words, all. non-Japanese exporters are forced to Femain idle, with Japanese merchants monopolizing the business, It is understood that these same regulations will in the near future be-extended to all North China ports—Tientsin, Chefoo, Weihaiwei "and Shanghai' will be considered a foreign port, which means that import and export duty. wilt) be levied on all_goods going in or com= ing out of Shanghai 'These export restrictions have been in' force here since Suly, 1937, and no amelioration or settlement isin sight, Eggs and egg products which, besides groundnuts and groundnut all, also form important items of export from here and which have hitherto not been affected, will also, most probably, come under those regula tions soon,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.