Show philippine commerce the development of the philippines phill kopines opines commercially and industrially for the P past ast nine months of 0 1903 Is the subject of a special bulletin by the bureau ot of insular affairs it Is shown that both in imports and exports there was an increase compared with a corresponding period in the preceding year heavy exports of hemp and copra offsetting heavy imports of rice explained the increase during the period named the imports were against for 1902 the exports amounted to an increase of nearly tour four and nd one half million 11 dollars |