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Show Chinese Trade and the War. United States trade with China increased in-creased in 1915, although foreign business busi-ness men throughout the world suffered suf-fered a loss of more than $100,000,000 in their exports to that country last year. China has for years been in an unsettled condition, yet the country's foreign trade mounted higher and higher high-er until the European war, when the trade was crippled. Wherever a railroad rail-road has been built in China new trade opportunities have sprung up and new markets have been created. On the upper Yangtze river in western China, a rich inland empire in the Chungking consular district, having "a population of upward of 75,000,000, no adequate transportation facilities exist, find no railway connection whatever. |