Large Increase in Budget to Develop Trade as compared with Frs. 28.764,000,000 60,000,000 tons for the corresponding period of 1028.
Exports amounted to Frs. 37,412, 000,000 and 27,000,000 tons as compared with Frs. 27,291,000,000 and 22,000,000 tons-—Reuter.
Paris, Dec. 12.
The budget of the Ministry of the been increased by The reporter,!
Archimbaud, suggests that the best way to develop the Colonies is to, inevense the trade between. them and France. French merchants should buy cotton from Prench West Africa and silk from Indo-China, etc. M. Archimbaud recommends OBITUARY, Mr, William Coote London, Dec. 14.
Mr. William Coote, who was P. for South Tyrone: from 1918 to 1822, died to-day after collapsing meeting at Belfast—Reuter. the creation of a High Commissioner for the Pacific which would be an advantage to Indo-China both polit ally and economically and discusses the possibility of ai, airship service between Paris and Hanoi and regular postal and passenger acroplane services in Indo-China
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