DOMESTIC.
to compete with the cheaper water transit to Canton and Hong Kong, the more so, when it is remembered that goods forwarded by rail to Haiphong will still have to undergo three days of difficult sea transport, before reaching Hong Hong.
I have &c.
(Signed)
Edmund Monson.
Office or Individual.
Foreign
1897
8 July
last previous Paper.
Houghou General No. 16467
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