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Show JAPAN'S BIG MERCHANT MARINE Altoulabliifc I'roareaa of the Former Uormit Kingdom ou Uln Scat. From the I.iuffalo Exprcus: According Accord-ing to an official list of the merchant vessels of Japan, which bus just been Issued, there are now 3,027 boulu In service. Of this number 1,9015 are registered, reg-istered, HKgr-giit!i)g 613,200 long. Of the C74 registered steamers 630 are below be-low 1,000 tons gross, while the other) vary from 1,000 to between 6,000 and f,000 tons. Of the sailing vessels 1,211 are below 200 tons and only one rates between 1,000 and 2,000 tons. As rc-garda rc-garda material, 128 steamers are built of iron, of steel, 10 ure composite), wli'Je the remainder are of wood. All the sailing vei-.sels are of wood except the largest, which 1b of steel. This boat was built luBt yer.r at Nagasaki. Up to the present time Japanese shipyards ship-yards have constructed in steel or iron Dnly two HtearnerH of over 0,000 tons, two steamers of between 1,000 and 2,000 tons, and thirty-two other smaller small-er steel or Iron steam vessels. In the dockyards thirteen vessels of cruiser or gunboat type, totaling 21,000 tons, have been launched since 1885, the iarijest b'.lcg the cruiser Hashidate, of 4,277 tons. There are seventy-three lhln-MilldlDg yards in Japan, |