220 REPORT ON COOPERATION IN AMERICAN EXPORT TRADE,
H. Fuellner, Warmbrunn.
Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke, A.-G. Nordenham.
Tabrik Nietloser Gittertraeger, A.-G. Diisseldorf.
Prankfurter Maschinenfabrik, G. m. b. H., Grossauheim,
Maschinenfabrik Karl Krause, Leipzig.
Maschinenfabrik A. Hogenforst, Leipzig,
Burkheiser &amp; Co., Hamburg.
The Apollinaris Co. (Ltd.), London.
Heidsieck &amp; Co., * Monopole,” Champagne, Reims,
Lubricating Oil Import Co. (Ltd.), Antwerp.
Messrs. Diederichsen &amp; Co., among others, are representatives of —

Rickmers-Linie.
Deutscher Rhederei Verein in Hamburg.
Farbenfabrik Hansa, G. m. b. H., Kiel.
Hannoversche Maschinenbau-Actien-Gesellschaft, vorm. George Egestorft,
{annover-Linden. !
Rheinische Metallwaren u. Maschinenfabrik in Diisseldorf.
Transatlantische Gueterversicherungs-Gesellschaft, Berlin,
Carl Schlieper, Remscheid.
The Siemens China Electrical Engineering Co. represents—
Siemens Bros. Dynamo Works, London-Stafford.
Siemens Bros. &amp; Co. (Ltd.), London-Woolwich.
Siemens Schuckertwerke, G. m. b. H., Berlin-Nuremberg.
Siemens &amp; Halske, A.-G., Berlin-Nonnendamm.
Gebrueder Siemens &amp; Co., Berlin-Lichtenberg.

There is at Shanghai a German Engineering Office for China, as
well as a German Engineering School For Chinese, with a large German
 technical staff, which is intended to be a big factor in the German
 engineering and machinery trade with China.
[ am informed locally that a new British engineering association,
designed to extend British engineering business in China and to be
known as the Anglo-Chinese Engineering Association, is now being
organized in London. No further data, however, are available.
In turning to Japanese firms, the two most prominent are the
Mitsui Bussan Kaisha (Mitsui &amp; Co., Ltd.) and Okura &amp; Co. It is
presumed that the firm of Mitsui &amp; Co. (Ltd.) will be mentioned
in the report of the consul general at Yokohama as representing
perhaps the largest combination of Japanese financial, manufacturng,
 and governmental interests in the Orient.
But none of these firms mentioned appears in this field solely as
a combination or as a syndicate of foreign manufacturers; they are
essentially foreign trading establishments engaged in all manner
and class of business, banking, loan, shipping, importing, exporting,
(Government, railway, engineering, and contract work.
Their organizations are extensive; their financial resources and
connections large; they are quite largely in control of the trade of
their respective countries with China, Dut not to the exclusion of
hundreds of smaller firms of established reputations and standing,
engaging in general or special lines, with apparently substantial
profits.

As to organizations for trade purposes in China those that stand
out most prominently, outside of the Japanese—who, with their low
salaries, can and do send men into all parts on constant trade scouting—are
 the Standard Oil Co., of New York, the British American
Tobacco Co., the Singer Sewing Machine Co., and the Asiatic Pe-