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The following routes are covered by the Osaka Shosen Kaisha: Shanghai to Han.
kow, employing 3 steamers of 2,000 tons and above; 11 knots and above. A bi-weekly
service; in winter, three times a fortnight. Subsidy, $125,000. Contract runs from
J anuary, 1898, to December, 1907. Hankow to Ichang, employing 2 vessels of 1,50
tons and above; 10 knots and above. Service, six times a month; in winter four
times. Subsidy, $56,000. Contract runs from January, 1899, to December, 1907.
Kobe to Korea, employing 2 steamers of 700 tons and above; 10 knots and above.
A three weeks’ service. Subsidy, $15,500. Contract runs from October, 1900, to
September, 1905.
. The Daito Kisen Kaisha have vessels on Chinese rivers and receive $29,500 subsidy,
 and H. Oie &amp; Co. operate steamers on the Japanese Sea, and enjoy a yearly
bounty of $70,000.
The special service above enumerated costs the Japanese Government $3,150,000 5
year, in addition to the amounts given on account of new hulls and machinery and
the ordinary subsidv to vessels encacing in the foreign trade not on regular lines.

ArpenDix C.

HOW SWEDEN ENCOURAGES DEEP-SEA TRADE. A

(From the Nautical Gazette, November 10, 1904.)

As an evidence of the manner in which the comparatively insignificant maritime
country of Sweden aids and encourages its shipowners, the following facts regarding
loans made by the Governmeht to a number of lines, taken from a Swedish trade
journal called ‘¢ Affarsvarlden.’’ which, broadly translated, means ‘The Business
World,” is cited:
“Some time ago we enumerated the Swedish shipping firms which have been
granted considerable 1dans in order more effectively to develop the Swedish shipping
trade abroad. Itis evident that this step will also be of great advantage to our export
trade, in both direct and indirect ways. The Tirfing Steamship Company, which
obtained a grant of $80,400, commenced its activity with three small ships, plying on
the Baltic and the North Sea. Since 1897 the steamers have become largerand more
numerous, and they now number sixteen, keeping up different trades both on the
above-named seas and on the Atlantic. The capital of the company, which has
toe to $846,880, will now be further increased by $194.300 for buying two new
Steamerg.
The company has gone in chiefly for the foreign shipping to and from Sweden.
Thus it has run 1 steamer with freights between ports in North America and Tampico
In Mexico; 5 steamers with ore freight from Narvik and Lulea to the Netherlands,
England, and Belgium; 5 steamers with coal and timber freights on the Baltic and
North seas; 2 steamers with ore freights from Oxelosund to Stettin, and finally 3
steamers on the south coast Baltic route. The Motala Shipping Company, having
been granted $26,800, has since 1899 chiefly carried on navigation on the Baltic and
the North seas, in some cases extended to the Mediterranean and the White seas. The
Disa Shipping Company has run its ships between Sweden and England, or France,
and also between these last countries and Portugal. Lately the company bought a
new, large steamer, built in Sweden, which is intended for carrying freight between
North America, the West Indies, and South America. The same company even contemplates
 establishing a coast route in China. Mr. Marcus Wallenberg, who obtained
a loan of $53,332, states that the South African Trading Company has sold its steamer
to him. This will be sent on with freights to distant waters. The company has just
bought another steamer, which will pass into the hands of Mr. Wallenberg to be
ased for distant navigation.
_ “The Nike Shipping Company also has lines to South Africa. Itisindeed of great
importance that we should get direct trade with those ports, since our exporters have
bad to send their goods via Hamburg, Antwerp, or London, which of course made
the expenses very heavy. The company will run 4 steamers, sending 1 every month
from Sweden. Mr. C.J. Sandell has sent his ships to Brazil, the West Indies, North
America, South Africa, and Australia. The Heimdal Steamship Company was granted
a loan of $47,168. It has carried on freight traffic with 3 steamers without any regular
routes, chiefly between ports in Russia, Germany, England, and France” In a
smaller degree it has carried coal, stone, timber, and wood pulp. One steamer has
also been plying between ports on the Mediterranean and England.”