The Board of Trade returns show that the decline of British trade during the first month of the Great War was very considerable in the Far East as elsewhere, the general falling off being relieved in only a few instances by any advances. There were several increases, however, in British exports to the Dutch East Indies, among which we may note a rise of £1,564 in cotton yarn (accompanied, however, by a drop of about £7,000,000 in cotton piece goods), one of £4,8% in "galvanized sheets," while England transhipped to the Dutch Colony £356,471 in gold bullion and coin, against £107,- 288 in August of 1913. To the Straits £11,357 worth more steel and iron mam (unenumersted) were exported, and more textile machinery was taken by China, but otherwise the subjoined figures will show practically nothing but the
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