Show o EXTENDING GERMAN TRADE Subsidized Steamships Between German Ger-man and Chinese Ports Washington Jan 8The great interest inter-est in Asiatic commerce which other nations as well a the United States are noy feeling is illustrated in a recent re-cent subsidy agreement made by the German government with the Lloyd steamship line by which it proposes to pay more than a million dollars a year for a fifteenyear term for the establishment es-tablishment of steamship lines to ply between its ports and those of Japan China and Australia and certain ports of China Oceanlca The steamers under un-der this contract to be built for the China and Japanese service are to be not less than 6000 tons and those for I the Australian line are to be not less than 5300 tons All the ships are to be built in German yards and German materia is to be used a fa a possible possi-ble all admiralty requirement to be carried out In them putting them into condition in which they ca readily be utilized for war purposes when necessary neces-sary It is also announced that a Bremen firm intends to establish with steamers steam-ers now being built for that purpose a steamship line on the Yang Tse Kiang In China to ply between Shang hai and Hankow By the aid of the line which will connect with the subsidized I sub-sidized lines running from Hamburg to Shanghai German dealers and German interests will be in direct communication communica-tion not only with Shanghai which has twothirds of the import trade of China but also with Hankow one of the most important commercial cities of China and having a population of about 1000000 I is now being connected con-nected with Pekin by railroad German Ger-man exports to Asia and Oceanica have more than quadrupled in the decade I ended in 1S96 |