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Show JUTE PROSPERITY BROUGHT BY WAR Special Cable to The Tribune. CALCUTTA. Aug. 7. War has brought great prosperity to the Jute trade, mainly on account of thf rfat demand for bags. In Mav alone Calcutta sent to England 18,000,000 him?, half as manv aa In a full year of pea ce. and to Russia 4,500,000. South America and the United States Tiave also been very iarge customers. In the la t completed yar, during two-thirds of which war was b?!ng waged, the United States took 7:i.i"j0.000 baes, valued at more than $F,mckwj')0, and two-thirds of Bengal's output of vurn. I |