rom Nur Uwa Correspondent.
Ontario, Dec. 23.
In spite of the war Canada is progressing most satisfactorily. The Customs Department has just issued its report for November, and it shows that the total trade' for the month was 125,455,299, an increase of 815,000,000 over that for the same month last year. The trade, however, for the first eight months of the fiscal year showed a decrease of $11,000,000, but things go on as they are now going this should soon be wiped out. One marked feature of the month's returns is the increase in the export of manufactured articles amounting to about $2,000,000, and this is taken asa sign that the manufacturers are capturing some the trade of the world—trade hitherto enjoyed by Germany and Austri Another feature of the Customs returns, which deserves mention, is that the balance of trade, which has hitherto been against Canada, shows signs of a rapid disappenrance. Last year for the first eight months of the fiscal year the balance against the Dominion amounted roughly 813: for the cor: responding period of this year it Tis Second Contingent is being tained at various places in Cana-but no statement has been and one will not probably be made, as to when it will be sent to england to complete its training Iefore being sent to the front. The has stated that Canada "ud as many men as the Brit Offices may call for, and Government is seeing to it that ut is being prepared aherd seal. There ix ne lack of 1 v[orders from the Allies for articles, the strangest, possibly being those for shells, These are inow being made it ferent places in Canad War Office alone having given order amounting to 82,509,000, But an important point is that tically all the material manufacture is obtained in Cai The leid comes from Original from
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