Show CONSULAR SERVICE Commercial Efficiency qf American Consuls is Shown The practical utility of the consular service In obtaining a wide range oC line industries and commerce of othcj countries nnd the opportunities therein there-in afforded for Introducing the sale 01 our goods have kept steadily In ad vaneu of the notable expansion ot our foreign trade and abundant evidence has been furnished both at home and abroad of the fact that the consu ar reports Including many from our dip lomitlc representatives have to a considerable con-siderable extent pointed out ways and means of disposing of a great variety of manufactured goods which otherwise 4 other-wise might not have found nale abroad Testimony of foreign observers to 1t the commercial efficiency of the con conclusive sular corps seem to be manufacturers and ex and our own porters highly appreciate the value of tho services rendered not only In the printed reports but also In the Individual In-dividual efforts of consular officers 10 promote American trade BUREAU OF FOREIGN COMMERCE 1 The increasing part of the work of the bureau of Foreign Commerce whose primary duty is to compile and print the reports Is to answer inquiries from trade organizations business F houses etc as to conditions In various parts of the world and notwithstand ing1 the smallncss of the force employed em-ployed the work has been so systematized systema-tized that responses arc made with such promptitude and accuracy as to elicit hearty encomiums rite experiment J experi-ment of printing the consular reports daily for Immediate use by trade N bodies exporters and the press which was begun in January ISJS continues to give general satisfaction |