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Show JAPS CORRALING TRADE Little Brown Men Rapidly Gaining Supremacy on the Pacific. WASHINGTON. March 5.-Consul-Gcn-eral Rodgers at Shanghai reports that since the close of tho war with Rusala, Japar has entered actively upon the extension ex-tension of her n erchant marine. He refers to scml-otllcla! reports that Japanese ahlps will soon reach every port touched by Paclllc waters, and says the shipbuilding compnnles of Japan are building new vessels, repairing old ones, altering captured craft and udaptlng everything ev-erything they huvo afloat to securu the carrylnc trade ot the Paclllc Consul Llofeld of Freiburg reports on Germany's completion of the laying of tho new Paclllc cable from Shanghai to Yap. In the Caroline Islands, which he enys covers over 2000 miles, closes a gap that makes It tho first continuous non-English non-English lino to encircle the globe and is laid at tho greatest ocean depth of any in the world, reaching 'i,0G6 feet. |