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Show v?- A GROWING CHINESE CITY. An astonishlnir impression of tho variety and peculiarity of the natural riches of China is given bv the s.ort-houses s.ort-houses and factories of the Hankow export firms Whereas the export or tea. the monopoly of a few irge Russian Rus-sian houses, has for some year3 re malned almost stallonarv, the value of the export of oil seeds from Hav kow, to take one example or a comparatively com-paratively unimportant article roso from 3 S million taels In 1907 to 10 5 in 1909 Boats bring wood Ur from the Up per Yangtze in big round baskets lined lin-ed with paper to be refined and re-melted re-melted in the factories, thev bring astonishing masses of the greab'- product pro-duct of the tallow tree used 'n European Euro-pean technical Industries also cotton and beans, gallnuts, pigs' bristles- also al-so skins, which are sun dried In the yards of the storehouses and packed by means of hydraulic pressos for sea transport. Millions of ducks' eggs are, during tho few weeks of tho season, manufactured manu-factured bv the hand labor of coolie women ami children Into maasc? or pure dried jolk and albumen, smelling smell-ing like biscuits The albumen Is used in tho photographic Industrv, the olk In the European sweet stuff manufac lure. On the same bank of the Ya:t-Lze Ya:t-Lze are the now cold storage houses and the crcat tobacco factories or foreign firms and near bv are are refineries, re-fineries, in which antlmonv. lead and zinc arc prepared for export In this rapidly increasing cxpoi t trade of China says the Journal of the American Asiatic Association, the Germans are taking a gTeat share Both in Uankow and Shanghai neail-75 neail-75 per cent of the export Is handled hv German firms, which look upon Hankow as the most important of their branches, which are spread like n net over China The capacity of the German Ger-man merchant thank9 to hh knowledge knowl-edge of the world market and his zeal to discover new resources, by which even unlikely articles of export gradually grad-ually present a lucrative side, hau given him a leading position In the Chinese export trade, which the more conservative and less cxperlmentativo English and tho Americans, thinking far more cxcluslvelv alout "big" things, are not likely to win except by following similar methods |