Sum of U.S.$100,000 Already Subscribed San Francisco, Aug. 22.
Subscriptions here to the Chinese war chest have exceeded U.S.$100,000, leaders of the campaign to raise money to assist China in the present conflict with Japan said to-day. Already $30,000 of the sum raised has been sent to the Oriental staff of the organization for emergency relief.
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha to-day announced the elimination of Shanghai as a port of call, and the Mitsui Bussan Kaisha took' similar action. The Dollar Steamship Line reported 100 cancellations of passages booked to the Orient—United Press. fering acutely, because of the fact that China trade has been brought to a standstill. Bradford's mills' woollen exports suffered, but the Manchester cotton houses optimistically predicted that the Japanese would probably lose China's trade and that Britain would benefit thereby.
Hankow wood oil $350 ton, up $75 a ton were up 94 cents a quoted at ton.—United Press.
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