New-York tribune., 1906-12-10
TR1DE IN FAR EAST.
Failing off in american Exports
NisQpmehended.

Hsu-Kow China Nov. tspeciaD.-There has
been much display in the newspapers of the Far
East of articles taken from New York newspapers
with regard 70 the falling of ot American export
trade to China and Japan. These articles apt
to cause much misappreh henson if not carefully ex-
aminad
An investigation or the official report of the ex-
port trade 10 China for 1875 Will show that the
ports that year were two and oue-naIf times as
large "a the largest previous year. A boom being
expected after the close of the war there
heavy speculation and large purchases ahead in
lsIo and the end of the year found the markets of
the East overstocked with American goods The
boycott had also decreased 10 considerable ex-
tent the consumption and these goods accumuls ted
in the warehouses
But the reports will show for 1906 a great ad-
vance over any year prior TO 1919. inasmuch the
hsures for the first months equal the total OF
tae highest previous year-that of 1904
In Japan the showing is not quite 50 favorable.
hut it must be taken into considerable that much
Of the heavy purchases in the last year two were
supplies for the war. and the heavy demand for
such commodities has ceased
Japan has increased its tariff again and is more
ard more aiming to have what is consumed in
Japan grown and manufactured home. There
will not be the immense increase in exports to
wages are low. taxes are extremely high and the
than the cheapest commodities
Japan IS also, ny using methods of granting gov
eminent assistance ana subsidies. building up a
large trade in cotton goods with China. and this
WI terere WIN any great increase IN the export
Iaue from the l. nIted states which was conf
Gently expected ms IS especially true. because
goods. and this IS where Japanese competition is
tet the keeuIy.
But the demand Of American newspapers that ths
1nited states goyernnent and the manufacturers
conditions existing there is a good one II has
been stated before that most American manufa
ers are represented in the East by either British
or German companies and do NOT get the repre-
k1d ~ A-,7arica,s - IL aafS 20 iIs ne IISIll
hu OF 4IiiTTl,'tlS ~ me Held Even the American
companies. most OF them. have almost entirely
American pumps ana windmills equal to-day
10 any IN the worlds markets and should be
pushed at this time in China as there viii be a
great demand for these articles. The topography
Of the country is such as naturally TO create
them; but German and British companies will sell
those made the United States
large -four mill OF American manufacture with
a Cally capacity or four hundred barrels. Is being
Put up at a place on the Han River, a short dis
plants rather than one. should be in the course OF
There is great demand AT present for boilers
ana engines for ali kinds OF work. hut en- engineer
who has lived for some years in New York tiIv az
present employed by a German company in china
showed to the writer replies and estimates from
ish and German estimate tes and stated that the
prices demanded by the American manufacturers
By reason of many years of commercial inter
course. 10 large extent OF a satisfactory nature.
the Chinese have come TO have a preference for
Pritsh machinery: But this could he to a great
extent overcome by a personal American repre-
sentative on the ground who was also able 10 meet
A complete arsenal is being constructed at Cheng-
tu the capta or the province OF Sze-Chueu. and the
contract was secured by a German company. An
other is about 10 be placed in the province OF
Yun-Nan, for which a contract has not been given
yet.
The military nanPuvres IN the vicinity OF
Changte In the province of Ho-Nan are completed
There were approximately thirty thousand troops
in review about twenty thousand from the north
and thousand from Central China They
showed some Improvement form and condition
in the previous year but nothing startling, and in
way to justify the suppOsiJiOn that they would
be any serious opposition 10 a fair sized invading
army of foreign power
The Japanese in China much disturbed about
the cables containing of unfrensily attitude
the part Of Americans the Pacific Coast tow
ard Japanese and complaining OF the boycott
against Japanese restaurants in San FranCiscO
They denOunCe such as a bovcott
against Japanese while muruur was heard
about the Chinese boycott against American trade
which they aided and ahetted, and the boycott
which they themselves
throughout the Pacific Ocean against other shin
ping than their own, and especially against the
British their allies, and whom they owe the
fact that their war with Russia was ended at the
right time. and before they would have been de-
feated by sheer inability continue further opera
tiOns