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Show CHINA PROPOSES MERCHANT MARINE SAN FRANCISCO. Julv 7. The re ftort that China is considering the es-ahlishment es-ahlishment of a merchant marine by subsidizing veesela belonging to the Dollar Steamship company was eon-armed eon-armed by Stanley Dollar of the company. com-pany. Negotiations are under way he said, bv which four of the Dollar steamers are to fly the Chinese flag and be manned entirely by Chinese. These vessels are the Itobert Dollar, now being be-ing completed at a Glasgow iron works; the M. H. Dollar, the Hazel Dollar and the Bessie Dollar, already in the eervire. |