Total Twelve Months' Business of $1,133,403,482 with'
Imports $163,134,956 Greater Front Our Own Comrsroxonxr 'Mukden, Oct, Monthly returns of foreign trade, including the month of July, have come to hand. This well printed hi-lingual publication' Is apt' to. be: hurriedly, dropped by" the reader, 'True' it. tacks illustrations and does contain a good many figures but there may' be Interesting toms for the general public, even If it does not make an acceptable substitute for a Crime Club thriller to tone seeking for a light change of mental diet.
'The array of numbers out-classes a Limestable, but there are fow zeros. Ut takes nine figures to state the value of the country's trade, of at least the (oral amounts of all' the values ace cepted by the customs 706,707,706, We must believe that the Jasi gute cannot be a "5" or a Here is an assumed accuracy of $1 in nearly 400,000,000. "Superhuman compared the partner who can never make his "bridge score -ayree "with ours Has this "Paradise"
de?" We. fear It has figures are fur from smal Glance first in the back of the book not {0 see how the story comes out not Just because the authors or the editors thought that. certain things should come first anid we choose to ignore their decision. - We will sample the "summary to see whether contents sound interesting. On two ages we have the nomes and prices of all the principal articles. bought find sold Inthe land. Ouch month these two pages give totals for the preceding twelve months, Small Tea Consumption ea catches the eye—7,411,637 cat ties—about "20,000,000." half-pound boxes. That would only allow an average of less than a half-pound for a half year for two thirds of the ulation, But note the value, tess than $034 @ pound, and we pay'here Gram $2 to $3.50 a pound. Either the customs is" missing a bet, or we missed a good chance of becoming a millionaire by not going into the tea business, Rurther comparison of unit values with the retail prices of articles with which we are familiar, and the knowledge that things find' their way into this country without appearing in the customs returns suggest the thought that the Government might receive more from the duties i¢ the full letter of the Jaw was enforced. It hardly seems necessary to advise them on that point, for taxes are passed on to the ultimate consumer, and pipe tobacco already costs us $10 a pound although the customs. reports, "pre~ pared tobacco" at $041 a pound.
"fron and steel" head the list, followed by "machinery and tools" and Wehlcles and vessel and clothes account for the next largest ems, sugar alone ranking 7h with a declared value of over $80,000,000, the list of nearly 500 schedules,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.