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Show JAPS C0RRALING TRADE Little Brown Men Hapidly Gaining1 Supremacy on the Pacific. WASHINGTON. March 4. Consul-Gcn-eral Rodgers at Shanghai reports thnt since the close of the war with Russia, Japan has entered actively upon the extension ex-tension of her n erchnnt marine. Ho refers to scnil-ofllcial reports that Japanese ohins will soon reach every port touched by Pacific waters, and says the Fhlpbulldlng companies of Japan are building new vessels, repairing old ones, altering captured craft and adapting ev-ervthlng ev-ervthlng they have afloat to secure tho carrying trade of the Pacific. Consul Llefeld of Freiburg reports on Germany's completion of the laying of the new Pacific cable from Shanghai to Yap, In the Caroline Islnnds, which he cays covers over i"0M miles, closes a gap that makes it the first continuous non-English non-English lino to encircle the globe and Island InlJ'syo shrdlu shnllu shrdlu shrdu Is laid at the greatest ocean depth of any In the world, reaching 2i,9C0 feet. |