1.   A five-story hotel near downtown is crammed with Chinese traders, three, four and more to a room.

2.   Chinese traders also left a mark on Nagasaki, apparent in the temples scattered on the hillside above Dejima.

3.   Chinese traders who travel farther inside the country, mostly selling flour, all seem to return with tales of human horror.

4.   Like many Chinese traders and workers in the Russian far east, they say they will be here only for a short time.

5.   Like many commodity traders controlling a sizable portion of world supply, Chinese traders are very secretive of their copper holdings and trading strategies.

6.   More than a dozen local dormitories have been given over to Chinese traders, while busloads of Chinese tourists fill the rooms at the local Friendship Hotel.

7.   Now, Chinese traders, many of them selling grain in exchange for copper scrap, go every day.

8.   The pessimism of Chinese foreign traders was reflected by the substantial drop in exports in the first quarter.

9.   Then, when the border with China opened, Chinese traders rushed in to fill the vacuum, at cheaper prices.

10.   Police in both towns said the mob threw rocks at many shops, mainly owned by Chinese traders.