Decrease itt Exports but Considerable Increase in Imports Tokio, May 5.
April's: foreign trade returns give the total exports. for the month at Y. 148,296,000, while imports for the" same" period totalled ¥. 248,019,000.
'Compared with April, 1923, -exports showed a falling off ' of [Y.. 1,580,000, while imports have increased by' Y. 60,795,000.
The aggregate of exports for the first four months of this year is 484,852,000, as compared with 489,498,000, for the corresponding period last year.
Imports, on the other hand, from January to April inclusive this year total "Y. 1,068,672,000, whereas last year they were Y. 692,771,000.—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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