Salt Lake Telegram | 1925-11-13 | Page 15 | World Trade Recovers Loss

TR DE I RECOVERS LOSS lUSS V Volume Declared LittIe Littie Little Lit Lit- tIe tle Un Under et 1913 GENEVA Nov v. v 13 CAP The AP-The The total tatal volume olum of world trade In 1924 was little If Ie at all less than in 1913 the year ear before re the outbreak ot of the the te war var the league of nations announced today toda Hence It de- de cl clates ites th the world orld is beginning to recover from tho tha ravages ages of th the great conflict On the other hand the distrIbution distribution tion of trade trad has radically changed as the share of ot eastern stern and central Europe has dropped 40 per cent that of Central America and andAsia andAsia andAsia Asia has greatly In Increased Great Britain has maintained her position not notwithstanding the fact that outside n nf nt Europe have received d a smaller maller proportion o of their imports ri from m her boer than they did before Lefore the war sar v Of or the great trading countries the report says the U United lt d States Sta Canada and Japan are arc the three whose sc exports have increased the most but ut China Cuba Mexico the Dominican can republics Salvador H Honduras Greece a d Peru all al more mora th than n doubled th tb the of their exports exports' between 1924 A the rise in the value of goods sl ce 1913 1013 is is- estimated el J at 50 p percent per r rc c cent nt all these countries have materially materially materially ma ma- Improved their stat status s. s Regarding curi currency ncy and and central l banks the rep report rt emphasizes emphasizes' that by the middle of ot the current year there were thirty countries countries- whose currencies were legally or or based on gold I