ABOUT COTTON.
SIGNIFICANT FIGURES. By Telegraph—Presi Association—Copyright. (Received October 2, 3.30 p.m.) LONDON, October 1. Sir Edward Grey, in a letter to Mr Page, the United States Ambassador to Britain, shows that statements were circulating in America, doubtless inspired by German agents, to the effect that Britain war, trying to stop the United States' legitimate trade with neutrals in order to capture that trado, and giv.\s the following figures : The increase in re-exports of cotton from the United Kingdom, and to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands in January and May of 1915, compared with the same period in 1914, amounted to 503,995 centals. The United' States increase in the same countries in the same period was 3.145.4G1 centals. Britain's re-exports of rubber to all destinations for the same period increased by 113,645 centals, and to United States increased by 170,184. Similar examples are quoted in lubricating oils, tobacco, cocoa and other products. The total volume of trad-* between the United States and these countries has increased by 300 per ctiit.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11508, 2 October 1915, Page 9
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