MESSAGERIES
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THE CHINA · MAIL,, MONDAY, AUGUST 31, 1958.
MARITIMES SHIP FIRE PREVENTION
Tel: 20051,
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PASSENGER/FREIGHT SERVICE
Homewards For Europe
“YIET-NAM
Leavus Hongkong. One Marsailles Vin
to Sept.
Problem Exercising Many Expert Minds In UK.
Rubber
Balgon
Bureau
vie Marsalles to all Mediterranean & West. Africs ports. vix Djibouti to Madagascar.
FREIGHT SERVICE
Leaves
*COURBEULLES" **** Europe-Helled
Europe-Saleð
•••••• A¤iwerp- 1 Sept.
1
Outwarde From Europe
Das Hongkong For
2 Sept.
"AURAY"
K0/30 B#pt.
"IRAQUADDY"
12/14.Oct.
Homewards før, Kutops
L.CAVES
Itongkong
Japan Japan Japan
For
"COURSEULLES"
•
Keelung -
Oct.
5 Oct.
"AURAY"
"IRAQUADDY”
1 Nov.
••• Kerlang-39 Oel. .......Keeling—7 NOT. ↑ NOT.
Saigon, Marseilles, Algiers, Oran, Tanglers, Casablancs, i
Le Havre, Antwerp, Rotterdam & Dunkirk.
Bubject to change without notice.
EVERETT
LINES
· EVERETT ORIENT LINE Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Slam, Malaya, Rangoon, Calcutta and Chittagong.
“REBEVERETT”
"In Port Loading
Salty
Aug. 31
for
Singapore,
& Itangoon
Penang, Calcutta.
"BRADEVERETT"
Arrives Sulls
Sept. 15 from Singapore. Sept. 16 (Accepilor cargo for trapabipment Kobe/Fuzan and Kobe/Okinawa)
for Kobe & Yokohama,.
EVERETT STAR LINE
Fast regular freight-refrigerator-passenger service to Korea, Japan, Philippines, Indo- China, Slam, Malaya, Colombo, Bombay, Karachi and Persian Gulf Ports.
"STAR BETELGEUSE”
Arrives Sails
Sept. 17 from Singapore, Sept. 18 for
Yokohama,
"STAR. ALCYONE”
Pusan, Kobe &
· Arrives
Sopt. 20
from Japan,
Salls
Sept. 21
for Singapore, Port Swetten- lum, Madrus, Colombo,
Cochin, Bombay, Karachi, Kharramshahr, Basratt
匙 Bahrein,
(Accepting cargo for transhipment Kobe/Pusan and Kabe/Okinawa)
EVERETT STEAMSHIP CORPORATION S/A
(Incorporated in the Republie of Panama
With Bimited Lisbility
Queen's Building, Telephone 31206. Chinese Department: Telephone 28293.
FUTURE
OF WOOL ASSURED
Sydney, Aug. 30.
Willing To
Hold New Tin Talks
Alarmed
newa
In a special edition of his privately-circulated sheet, Mr Warren S. Lock. of the wood, president Natural Rubber Bureau In sounds the Washington,
for alarm
the rubber growers he represents.
Marine Insurance Aspect
Be
T
To
Discussed
At Talks
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Every reader of crime and detective fiction is familiar with the brilliant amateur who solves with consummate case problems which bafile the most competent professional detective, even with all the official resources at his command.
The idea is all right and fiction may sometimes, be stranger than truth, but there are some matters in which nothing can take the place of technical training.
Such difficulties as may exist in practical crime detection are often the result of conflict of opinion, especially when this is let loose. In the realm of deduction rather than that of fact, ............
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Malaya
Trade
In July
Improvement
Over
and Figures
Singapore, Aug. 30. Proliminarily figures for Malaya's overall trade in July showed some Improvement over the June figures, it was learned today.
July exports including štos es and bunkers were $13251,000,000
thes
Page: 9
Drive By
Japanese Shipyards
for
In an all-out hid orders for der shipyards Japan has started slashing Kér prices for new ships.
Leading Japanese tanker builders are now offering new tonnage to overseas buyers around £5 a ton less than the Brush proc.
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On the large 30,000 tons.and over type tanker now favoured by the world's oll
companies this cut could bring down the
cost, by an much as £100,000 a
vessel.
tankers
walt
and imports were SL$208,800,000. Juma experts were St$249,000,000
Japanese shipyards claim that and Imports St$200,000,000.
tentative dollar orders have al- figures indlented that ready been placed for two July Maloyo's unfavourable trale
thee
with delivery balance for the your dropped to about 31 million Strnita dallars, dates, a year to 18 months . Overseas shipowners hence. Even such Meanwhile These
the Weekly report - which Area commenta
so often spread on loss on shipboard..
Pool, fires board ships and the proportion discussions as those which took of Lowis and
rubber ordering today in the UK. levant to the subject of
would probably have to on shipboard, a subject which of capital ships thereby totally place in Genoa last year, at a brokers, said the outlook for until 1960 before they could at the present time is engaging lost,
meeting of the Institution of rubber-Malaya's number one take delivery of their ship. · of so many the attention
It is clear that Siate regula-Noval Architects and
"Iirly pro- Shipbuliding in Britain La shipping and marine insurance. tion has not gone fer enough, Associazione di Tecnica Novale,
stcol limited largely by the There are the professionals
mals even where it exists at all. Ships demonstrate, how limited. ob-
sald there appeared and there
shortage. Britain's order book are the
amateurs, are still being built in which the declives There is the problem of co-fira hazard
pronounced. |
ced, copied.
uchlan
thuring the remainder of the total now stands at £025 mil- ordination of all activities, and Plywood continues to be
for statements were made at the year.
ONE-FIFTH IDLE in particular there is the difl-inings
The Lewis There are few re-conference as, "The fire risk is
and Peat report culty of separating foot from gulations other than monitory in not so conlly colculated" (as listed several factors on which fiction. Further, there are the respect of the materials permitted risks caused by such factors as it based its optimism
AN IMPROVEMENT? conflicting claims of those who to be used in ship construction heavy weather and flooding after believe they
have discover
1. World production of natural
most
are too that kallhood of inercased consump
is true
His first concern is the 20 months' delay before the State- owned
synthetic American rubber factories can be sold and operated by private enterprise.
Only the most effelent rubber plantations are making profits at 1b. for today's price of 19d. rubber and their profits are very
modest by the side of the boom profits of two years ago.
The smaller and older plantations need a much better
If they are to price
stay In business and replace their old trcca by 1900, when world ed some, if not of the an-ment installations which must be tions are demand is
SOBT expected to
of installed. The question arises as rigidly they are enforced, the has decreased and consumption above the combined output of those actively
to ultimate safety of the ship will has decimates of production the plantations and The U.S.ing methods of combating ship- harmonise condicting daims, to depend upon the efficiency and 2. factorles.
board res have a sense of rea-adopt regulations which shall not discipline of the officers and and consumption compiled by the The tune lag imposed on the ponsibility and regard the social, put the "willing shipowner" at
nt crew.
Rubber Study Group, which handing over of the
MANY FACTORS synthetic economic, and humanitarian as an unfair financial disadvantage
predicted A Asurplus this your "Even if a ship be constructed of 200,000 tons, industry to private enterprise pects of the subject of at least as
were being With his compared means that the plantations will as great importance as the com-enlightened
public entirely from gmbustible proved to be very wide of the
to morial she will always carry mark have to compete for another 20 merejal.
competitors, synthetics For many
on enormous quantities of
Idea of the propose months at least with emmercial of this article pans, the water impose, such self-discipline, en une poplusta in the form of "burdensoce purplus" was clony prices. Long enough
the to minimise Arst of all the possibl-fuet oll, passenger and crew's galning ground; to bend interests of red effects and baggage and, possibly, even. old-established rubber companies
to the wall.
cargo, and for this reason, the aspect of this secondly, its spread. MUST KEEP PROMISE vast subject. The present time From my own investigations, fire risk can never be eliminated
is perhaps appropriate to review there
It "Unless this, price trend
however, can pre cortalu reversed
some of the points at
Issue, requiring a different approach, particularly as there are to be, which stand out for attention:
might have been added
or in regard to fire-extinguish- | damage) "but whatever rubber compared with. last year
made, end however
is
WCTs. For in dovls to whether it is. possible
with every
concerned
known
In
San
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1099-
less
and
be
aspects, ench bly lessened." To this
on the use of
3.
110m
Japan on the other hand-can- not get orders. More than one- Afth of her shipyards, with a total estimated output of 500,000 ogs tons annually, are idle. Japan is keen to get them shipyards going again as
means running them at a loss. the start of what may be a price-cutting war.
it
With British costs already around their highest point, and with the prospect of A further increase in labour costs, price. cutting, from the Japanese and Germans and subsidised
com
4. Production had been over-petition from the United States, and consumption could constitute a serious threat estimated under-estimated by the Rubber to our industry. Study Group:
5. The transfer of synthetic rubber plants In America 10 private ownership in the not-too- distant future
rubber.
HAMBURG
and Peat report BECOMING
open discussions on "Fires on There is, first of all, the human the cloctrical hazard, for many
is distinctly en- Board Ships,"
at the
This is perhaps the experts believe that numerous Sebastian Conference
[
next least amenable to control, es- fires of unidentified origin have couraging to preducers of naturat
far been add to electrical, faults International pecially in passenger liners month, of the
the luxury class, ho
The Lewis This Genoa conference concen- How Union of Marine Insurance.
trated in tho main on
said that there should be a cigarette smokers cause pres
aluminium structures, although gradual improvement in price clear from such records of the New York Fire Depart- other fire risk reduction aids until the end of this year. ment for 1052, that careless came under review. ment smokers "touched-off" 7,174 firca,
are concerned, it was sprinklers
that "It is common amounting to staled causing damage
however, to instal
HEAVY LOSSES From the underwriting point of view, as has been stated in these columns on previous occasions, the Issue is relatively clear.
Mr Lockwood, adds, more than a "it would take Marshall Plan to keep South enst Asia
side of the on our bamboo curtain.”
Mr Lockwood Insists that US. Industry using natural rubber should keep its promise made in Copenhagen at the rubber con- ference and use more of South-
east Asia's principal export.
He also asks for the
price of
raised to a commercial level.
Finally be demands synthetic production should not be large enough to imperit the communleated as yet to the world human factor. economics of the rubber-growing at large. They know how pericus these losses are in number and in the derregate.
that
As far as
The selection of the qualities of rubber exported during the first half of the year has shown an improvement.
Claims from
the man-made material to be Marine Insurers know in terms almost $9 min.-one-seventhe dock by deck as the American concerns had decreased
areas.
that
This amounts to little by the side of the incalculable damage
to Empire and rubber countries that would occur if the natural Industry is made bankrupt.
ASSENTS TO JAP OFFER
By July 31, £42,097,000 (faco value) of Japan's sterling bonds, 05 per cen: of the outstanding amount, had been
of pounds, shillings, and pence the total fires from the actual cost to them of fire being identified losses, even if this has not been
all causes
according
Marketing Of Grains
the
as due to this woede, thus inffording a contend-reporte Scondly, have been
report--United Press. measure of protection, encouraging INCOMBUSTIBLE
Nevertheless, it significant that On board ship, with all such Great Britain, with its excellent fires эса What they fires the major problem is one of recordin have to determine in essence is confinement and extinguishment are concerned, does not show up
in no far as to what extent, if at all, they are "A little fire is quickly allations or during building or repair ore so well when fires in Dor port able in advance of experience
ace out, Sprinke
Installations or to be effective considered. This would seem to to encourage by premium con- have been
cossion the application of the in extinguishment in saloons and indicate that elicient manning of most modern and effective
there
is particularly Vessel protection in bins, where methods of fire
necessity, be ships.
material but which can be re- that the sprinklers are ready not by any duced to minimum.
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Confine operation, and that when in port
The problem is
of tha.
some come necessary of all times ip sure Problem
the headers
arc CX-
Winnipeg, Aug. 30.
European Me J. B. Lawrie, manager of the Canadian Wheat
of
con-
the
one store of shipboard confer with the Board and get o rssented to are protection 91 amps, yet give but appearance at least the sprinkler protection as such, Canadian grain position, admit.
her debt offer, it was karned in London.
and
a
WORRIED
SHARP DECLINE IN ORDERS FOR SHIPS
Hamburg, Aug. 30. West German shipyard becoming
owners are
seriously worried about the rapid fall in the number of new orders, according to shipping circles.
They said the yards reported that the number of new orders received in the first half of this year was negligible,
the
...
meansing
a simple one from the ment of the fire has been shown or when building, λ pump is point of view. to be practicable in such struc- avaliable to supply the sprinders
Main reason given was that Ships already bulit must be tures, and even elsewhere in the when
German row material taken more or less as they are, ship, by
the ush of incombustible hausted."
prices, particularly those; of Ships under construction are "liners," such as Marinite. This Little fault can be found with Board, said today he was bullt fo
to the specification of is an asbestos composition board this statement as it stands, but, fident that markets will be found steel plates, were too high com
pared with foreign prices, The owners. who must take into which cm be supplied in various from Inquiries I have made, for large quantities of Canada's
buge account questions of relative cost. thicknesses up to one inch, and there is little, if any, evidence to
recent reduction of German-iron- surplus. grain
and steel prices by an average As will be examined later, within
Mr. Lawrie, in Winnipeg to purposes support the suggestion that even om wat faced for decorative
of five per cent was not enough the past 20 very important with
years
materials (by VERCET or by
Grst hand
- developments have boen made in paint or spray application) so to bas
pleture
to Improve the situation, ExLik from breakdown of
these sources. The price cut of fire-proof construction
not in ted that marketing of the large was welcomed by local govern- system
ment circles in Bremen, for so far there is no evidence of as atractive as that obtained from Of course,
longer-
-established and con-operation cannot be effective. 1933 grain erop will present
instance, but they did not be- subotantial reduction in greservatively gate loss by the fire peril, and Most of the objections, and of fire protection of ships con- cognised in Europe
retained materials
Tests of all kinds of methods some difficulties.
"Canadian wheat is si releve the cuts would help
as the Bremen shipyards. been effectively inue to be pursued under all The outstanding amount has
answered. The cost
Many world's best and this is going to quspices, since been revised upwards from
"linery" is. £61,030,000 to £01,195.000, - to
of course, a con":
which lies ahead marketing towards include the bonds which have During the past week, I have sideration, and unfortunately no
sald, been revalidated since December taken the opportunity to study a exact comparison can be made
But from the heat in good volume is a objective of view the
basic
both the For some loans, including the prehensive series of photo, owing to fluctuations in prices of | InsurTUDCO
necessity in various materials, but the of important fires which graphs
problem resolves of jasing asbestos board of hard have occurred in recent years on passenger ships.
does not, on excuses"
At Europe, and large supplies, will is the watchword prevido any cogent the
under be required during the graphs are most impressive and show beyond doubt
writed have sich "insulation" ean,
At the last reported date, May 31, the assents were £30,635.000 or 15 per cent
22 Jast.
per cent.
Washington, Aug. 30. The United States has an-Eccon largest issue, the 6 per The future of wool is just anounced its willingness to join in
cents of 1924, the asients us to sure as the future of wheat, but a new try at making an inter-
July 31 reached or approached 80 the wool industry would have to national tin stabilisation agreė- match synthetics salesmanship, ment, it was disclosed today.
The State Department the Wool Secretariat chairman
has written a letter to Mr George Bold.
Peter, chairman of the working party of the International this country is prepared to be Study Group advising him that International represented at an tia conference if enough nations
Intercated.
The chairman, who is also Australian member of the Inter nation! Wool Secretariat and who arrived by air from London,
living standards enabled coolica
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The Eastern countries would be Experts from major producing a tremendous market when rising and consuming nations agreed one woollen there that another effort to negotiate un international in agreement might be in order. was spreading United Press.
to afford even
blanket.
this le admitted by the Liverpool perhaps all, have of suchorities" arò travelling along help us with the big job of another reason given for the re
Underwriters Asscelation.
SPECIAL INSTANCES
were
casualties
These photo pre
what ex
same
routes
the
ono
be
of
of
Low frolght rates were
Justhare of shipping componen to place new orders.
The total amount of orders on,
than 2,100,000 gross registered tons at the beginning of this year to tona 1,700,000 gross registered
HUS-a 201 United Kingdom and in Western. I hand' dropped from mono
year.
current
alhamos ime, maring the testhe thing, to remember is.
of in the practical results of these
regarded as "sured ships' public rooms and cabins, In touch WILL CHIent dovere there
The overall everage is pulled tensive damage can result from such 18inst its use. down to 60 per cent by the sub-fire on ships which before the course, be used, other than in researches that they must keep that, world tratto in Wacht has been running at a high level and normal assents of the largest | respective
the 5 per cents of single loan.
It but in all its uses it appears, it|ments. It BD
they
is no reason to believe probable that 1907, which were still only 58 needs only to mention a few of may be wrongly, to be regarded would be able to
make
more that there is going to be a per cent assented.
these fo
great as in competition with alternative
contribution than is at drastic chat-back in import re In 1949, the syst
systems of
the case were there quirements in the near future or tven somethingUnited Press.
they are
only $2 per cent on May 31, and Canadian cruise ship Noronic. in the use of
protection engin the recom-
However, this compares with the -bazari hizo how great | 25)
the assents of this 1007 loan have lately been catching up.
Of the total accents
the
for
particul
short time became a tire. in fellate erstrand the
hulk with a heavy loss of
arly
2481,000 in June and July. In 1950, the Oroneny calight various methods of fire protection action and fire prevention ex-
To Get Ideas From Europe
at Barrow-in-Fumess.
Wes
Earlier,
Japan-Egypt Agreement
To Be Signed
Tokyo, Aug. 30.
The Japan-Egypt Trade Agree?- mont is expected to be formally aigned to
or
restriction on
on July 1, : Deliveries, during the period totalled 374,000. gross registered lons, more than balf the total deliveries of 000,000 gross registered tons anticipated for this year, which is 20 per cent above last your's deliveries. Tankers account for about 60
of the per cent
orders unfilled on the books foreign orders (including tankers) represent 62 per cent of the total. Output has been rising, but with fewer new orders coming in, order books aro Retting thinner China Mail Special,
Ore Survey In P.L.
sald world demand for wool was are letter, sent on August 15,
of sprinklers.
Too mendations of those exports consider the entitled tô look to as ship con- The growing.
warned, howover, that the almost a half were in this single
the Empire Waverney
burnt as alternative rather than cam- parte." He made a number of points, Unite
United States wil
will not be in issue.
herself out in a a Liverpool dock, plementary. One obvious ad- ALTERNATIVE METHODS position to make any commit- As the Including:
arrangements for as- and within a year the Monach of vantage of the
use of asbestos
The 1948 conference on Safety in Paris ments at the conference if it is scating the 1907 loan
Bermuda (where a large proportion of the Hebburn-on-Tyne.
burnt out
Insulation. at composition
apart of Life at Sen, which was al- Despite synthetics, the United held. If anything is decided,
During the from the fact that. It can be, tended in London by delegates in bonds are held) had been opera - States was the world's biggest the letter sald, the United States
there have been, worked as-oasily as wood, Is that from 39 countries, resulted in would consider what action tive for only about a month by present year wool consumer and consumption take "in the light of the US the end of July, it is thought amongst others, the total loss it does not, in its working.
methods
fire protection. there is still rising.
interests at that time."
that the assents of this loan will by fire in Gladstone Dock, Liver die dust and waste which would agreement on tres alternative
feed combustion.
Large These involved (1) the construc- The letter was written in continue to climb in coming pool, of the Empress of Canada,
of internal divisional bulk- und the disastrous cutbreak of Japan is taking much more pursuance of
months-tester. agreciment
of number of ships completed or ton o
d form, an
fire on the Kronprins Olav. These
construction have been. protected
een honding in wool.
reached at the June meeting of
are but instances, and it is really so
140 by ono in generally without the Tin Study Group In, Brussels.
noteworthy
many alone. At one tire there was te sprinkler system; (2) the Stting so close to the International how in
fres Instarices the
Occurred
objection to the
use of these of an automate insultablo Trade and Industry, as that, Tranin
Monilu, Aug. 30, whilst the ships were la port. It materials that the supplies were fire alarm sistemin
Fificen ' representatives withi is only when such instances are obtainable
hard only from
spaces with no...
These sources raid
major steel mills in Janan will aggregated that the extent of currency countries, but this no the type of internal, balkbonding features of the agreement are: the fire hazard, and Ite nuliity to longer applies, and there is in the apaces so protected; and (1) Trado' between the two make a survey here on the destroy even the most magni-rapidly Tokyo, Aug. 30.
developing home manu (3) a system of sub-division on countries will be operated on availability of local fore
resources for the
steel Jopances facture.
an approved basis within each dollar open account basis; Mr Shintaro Tabata, chief of ficent ships, are appreciated.
MAJOR HÁZÁHR
main vertical zore,
together
(2) the total volume of trano industry. the Iron and Steel Products Underwriters are concerned be
Another major source of hazard with automalle dre detection in will be something lipe 36 million, Elchi Izave, export contrarie Poction, Heavy Industry Bureau, cause they have to of the International Trade and money to indemnify the owners, at least in the spread of the all spaces in which a fire might with the swing limit fixed at th of the Kawasaki Steel Corpora
dó originate,
tion, is
is reported to be seeking Industry
good: the economie waste In-ducts and trunks Flee cut-offs with
hale and million;
(8) Witen Japan's imports assistance from local traders with, In thing deers can be introduced materials and furnishings, but million awing ilmit, Japan settles the necessary arrangements for He sided that Australia's has been signed between the Leaders of the Iron and Steel
without United It Is not proposed here to even, li ducts and te
sprinkler her accounts in cnéh
of the supply of fron ore, an ench dollary problem was whether she could Dalicht Taumho Trending Company Manufacturers Ansoolation win
(4) Egypt will not impose Statisties recently released by continue to meet world demand and an Australian firin in Mel- meet on Thursday to draft a list review the problems of fire on moans or suitable flape: None of fetaliation
Great Britain, and import duties on Iduation goods the Commerce Department for wool, The price and manner boume. Tho export brio is of items to be investigated by board ergo ships, although some these moneults" "čang
ellminste tai originale : fromă similar causes to
Ares in In which Australia's lost clip was 278:
by the tedia, reflectodons to lanformation ·
will ask him to make those in passenger hairs
•They absorbed
of cases thà unusual number world confidence in wool. available to the Tasha Trading anele on Iron athil seol prices,
ated, wint which alone gives emphasis to cloth and silk, while Egypia to Japan is expected to tilt the He
rue Import Hoepoes port freightage, taxes, labour re- unidentified, probably because
and other matters the five self consumes the appears to be necessary for the the neoctistored-ordination major export items will be rar, balance more heavily in favour wood-author files here and return for Japanese red boons unless the lations
What is ordination of all the present, ac-he Liverpool Journal of Com cotton, salt and phosphate rock. If the Philippines. France to England via Jepan. China export price is law than £67 per concerning the pool-China Mail evidence of its origin
China, Mall Bpecial. Mail Spocked.
ton--China Mall Special.
Special:
remarkable is the rapidity with | tiyilles designed to minimise are 'merce,
Western dress
in the Easter
countries.
JAP RED BEANS
that
FOR AUSTRALIA
Tokyo, Aug. 30,
Pro - war forecasts scientists could produce synthetic nure with nilt the characteristics of wool had not been realised.
pay 'real
Ministry, is to visit but quels payments do not make is the necessary #mistence of prelated; • use ;:'of-com- 1 A consienot for the export of Europe to inspect the operation | voNARICAREY RAPIDETY Are of the funds. YETORGANCE, end dilacant hieddy inflammakło | wxoces¦óver exports, exceeds 15 | connections in Japan to make -
160 tons of red beans to Austrália of the steel and coal pool there.
ton
mint have discussions, wih] w/ VDE the Bright Sovernment, the supply of raw materiala, Po* cause of the
In an holda or In Bus OTHE
Gut
Bres Tomain
poctively, on
on the which do not compete with showed that the balance of trade
domostie
and the mafor export Philippines of Into will be cotton yarn and opportunity of iron ore exports
(1);~(3) and (3)-26 Nona 2 Products, with Japan ・・・ favoured tho
the main separately In the order. quoted,