Rio de Janeiro, Sept. 14.
The annual report of the Minister of Finance, Dr. F. Selles, which har been presented to Congress, contain:
warning of the danger which threatening the rubber trate owing to the competition of India, Sumatra, and Ceylon. Brazil, he says, still has priority in quality and quan ty, but the East Indian rubber has the advantage of cheaper production and will soon have the advantage of quality. The report adds that calenlations that have been made place the rubber crisis between 1915 and 1917, and Dr. Selles insists on the necessity of encouraging agricultural products beside coffee and rubber.
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