Show JAPANS JAPAN'S STEAMSHIPS GROW GROWN IN NUMBER cio Tokio April Japan has now no no Ic lets Ics s than twenty steamers from roam to lo ton tons ions The Tho dock yards ards at Nag Isag u Kube Kobe and und ra an are arc ver very bus bisy Th They have o tons ton of vessels on on the stocks tock and amid tons bus more are in Prospect The fhe rime additions made to tho the marine during th the war amounted to no lets less than tItan tons bringing the total for Cor steamers to a figure above ton tons The result has hos been o edn n keen licon competition so so- that many com com- arc siro heard about cheap freights The Japan Steamship company formed b by a union of owl el other than the tho existing three large lars companies with lt Us Its capital of or is about to add udd several tic large es vessels to its fleet an and altogether It may muy be lie expected that thai freights will wi ili b be cheaper before thc they arc aro dearer |