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Show JAP MERCHANT VESSELS LOSING OUT IN PACIFIC TKIO. Aug. 19. The influence of Japanese merchantmen in the 'outh seas has declined owing to the resumption resump-tion of operations b- foreign shipping Lompanles which were compelled to suspend th n ?rvlces to that part of the world during thf war. in pre-war day a Imtch and British ships duraln ' Hie thHplng ti In the dlrcctioi ot the Dutch Eot Indies. Slngaporo. Bankok and Hongkong, but during the ,ir they w r- largely sup-erfd''d sup-erfd''d Ii' J,i Mui'sr cfiiiiyiaiiii-.- The position of Japanese ships h9f become less favorable owing to the fact that merchants are shipping dl-r-. t from th- Dutch East Indies, instead in-stead of from Singapore, to Europe, i Japanese ships have gradually withdrawn with-drawn from the South seas trade and the only Japanese loneom now maintaining main-taining a regular service In that part of the world Is subsidized by the gov- srnrnenl |