When the P. & O. s. Carthage sailed from Shanghai yesterday afternoon she carried a cargo of about 1,000 tons of tea away with her for foreign markets. While this might be considered a normal shipment during normal times, it comes almost in the category of a "record" shipment when present business conditions are taken into consideration.
A number of leáding tea merchants were interviewed on the subject yesterday by the "North-China Daily News" and all agreed that while such a shipment compared favourably with shipments at this time during normal years it was indeed a remarkable shipment for the moment. Whether or not this state of affairs would keep up, however, was problematical, but "we all hope so Shipments of tea out of Shanghai at the moment are nearly all from the coastal districts via Wenchow, the tea arriving only in driblets. The eas from the interior districts, which normally come down the Chien Tang River, have been held up, of coui the recent fighting having been acre: the lines of communication, but efforts are being made to get them down to Hon; ug, where a number of local tea merchants have established branch offices. reports is available for the present.
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