Note 31 — INTRODUCTORY

Of the 1430 vessels, aggregating 1,104,000 tons, entered at and cleared from Niu-chwang in 1902, the Japanese had 710 vessels and 491,000 tons, the British, 374 vessels and 350,000 tons, the Germans, 88 vessels and 73,000 tons, and so forth.—The Kokumin, April 29, 1904, from the Tai Shin-Kan Bōyeki Chōsa Hōkoku (report on the trade with China and Korea), compiled by the Department of Agriculture and Commerce, Tokio, 1904. The Russians could show only 3 vessels and 1,223 tons, which was below their record for 1901 and less than one half of the average of the five years 1886, 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1901.—The British Diplomatic and Consular Reports, Annual Series, No. 2999 (on Niu-chwang), p. 9.