SEBASTOPOL A NAVAL PORT.
Sabastopol till lately supplied the markets of the United Kingdom, with some 360,000 tons of agricultural produce annually, and during a. prosperous year provided frieght for as many as 270 British ships of 454,963 tons. '
* Hitherto the United Kingdom held the preponderant share of the, trade of this port, but since this splendid harbour has been transformed into a naval base by an Imperial ukase, it is no longer accessible to foreign shipping, and its grain trade has become extinct.
The closing of so favourable an outlet for the export of grain has operated with considerable severity against agriculture in the peninsula, while the absence of trade has banished a formerly prosperous mercantile community from this city and plunged the municipality into great financial depression.
Other departmental influences are producing similar effects, conspicuous among them being the steady exodus of the Tartar population of the Crimea, who are migrating to Turkey in large numbers, and the ever-in-creasing poverty of the peasantry, already exhausted by a succession ol years of scarcity and want.
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Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 169, 18 July 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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176SEBASTOPOL A NAVAL PORT. Marlborough Express, Volume XXXVII, Issue 169, 18 July 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)
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