London, Jan. 7.
During the month of December, se compared with the same month last year, the decrease of imports to the British Isles amounted to £°,559,914 and the decrease of ox-ports to £17,047,092.
There was an increase in the imports of food, drink and tobacco of 28,000,000 and a decrease in the import of raw cotton of £5,000,000 and of wool £596,964.
In exports the decrease included soften goods £5,000,000 and woollen foods over £1,000,000.
The total decrease in importa for 1914, as compared with the previous year, amounts to £71,302,090 and in exports to £95,014,564. at. The total imports into the United Kingdom in 1913 amounted to £769.035,59 aad the total exports to £655,117,134
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