San Francisco, Dec. 9.
Japan's capture of Hankow and Canton and its severance of communications with the interior of China practically spells the end of all American trade with China, in the opinion of the Institute of Pacific Relations.
This trade in the past has averaged approximately US$5,000000 a month, it is stated. According to a survey which the Institute has just completed, there remain only four lines of communication into China over which American trade might pass, here are the railway-highway route from French Indo-China to Southern Kwangsi province, the narrow guage railway from French Indo-China into Yunnan province, the newly-constructed road from. Burma northward into Yunnan, and.the long Overland route from Soviet Russia through Chinese Turkestan into central China,
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