'According to the Board of Trade returns, trade with the Far East lias recovere' since the first month of the war, but the decline on last year is none the less considerable in most instancea The value of cotton piece seeds exported to China and Hongkong was only £380,940, against £1.067,604 last year, and the effect of the drop occasloned by the war upon the year's figures is becoming apparent, the total returns for the first ten months
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