Show IMPORTS AT MANilA I I War Bureau Issues Statement State-ment for Three Months I THE EXHIBIT IS GRATIFYING l Growing Nature of Trade Shown by 0 Comparison with Amounts for All Philippine Ports for tho Fifteen Fif-teen Years Ending with 1894 During Dur-ing which Time Average Yearly Imports of the Archipelago Only Amounted to 817039014 or Two thirds of that Beccivcd at Manila I Washington Jan HThc War department rashlngton < partment made public today a statement state-ment showing the import uL the port of Manila for the three months of July August aid September last being be-ing the first official data relating to imports im-ports durlrrg so long a period since American occupation entered The total value of merchandise tered at Manila customhouse for the I three months named was 5r025SL In addition theme was 552520 in gold coin and 25201 in silver coin from British I India and 307 in silver coin from China bringing the aggregate of imports I im-ports up to S6ll3102j or at the rate of more than 2r3GO000 a year from Ma I I nlla alone S The growing nature of the traae is I shown by a comparison with the amounts for all Philippine perls for the fifteen 1 years ending with 1S94 during which the average yearly Imports of the archipelago only amounted to 17 03DOI1 or approximately twothirds of the valuation Indicated by the trade of three months ending with September 189D for Manila alone The values of Importations of merchandise mer-chandise from the various countries which furnished more than the United States are given as follows China S2I5C103 United Kingdom 016501 Spain SGG3105 Australia 410452 Germany Ger-many 357823 United States 329114 Eleven other countries furnished goods In amounts ranging fiom S93521 f from the I Netherlands down to 103 from Denmark Cotton and Its manufactures furnished fur-nished 1574210 out of the total Imports Im-ports of which the United States furnished fur-nished goods amounting to 1179 The United Kingdom furnished a total value of 5GJS1C Spain China Germany Ger-many British East IndlPs The Netherlands Neth-erlands Switzerland France Italy and Belgium all led this country and only Japan and Russia appear further down the list j I |