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Show Chinese Trade and the War. Doited States trade with China Increased In-creased in tfllfi, although foreign business busi-ness men throughout the world suffered suf-fered a loss of more thnn $1(KJ,000,000 In their exports to that country last year. China has for years boon In an unsettled condition, yet the country's foreign trade mounted higher and higher high-er until the European wur, when the trade was crippled. Wherever u railroad rail-road has been built In China now trude opportunities have sprung up und new markets have boon created. On the upper Yangtze river In western China, a rich Inland empire in the Chungking consular district, having a population of upward of 7!,000,0ll0, no u'lequnte transportation fucllltle.s exist, find no railway connection whutever. |