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Show oo- BRITISH TRADE . SHOWS INCREASE London, -July -7. .2;2Sj.. Xh board of trade figures for Jbo show that imports increased U.027,000 pounds and that exports increased 14.-Ml 14.-Ml 000 pounds. Exports were higher u in any month since January, nd 7.000,000 pounds in excess "oil, the last month before the beginning of the war. T "H The principal increases in imports H were: Food, 5,000,000 pounds; wood, r pounds. The increase in exports was , M principally in manufactured goods of H which 3,500,000 pounds was cotton tex- jH tiles, 1,250,000 pounds -woolens and H 2,000,000 pounds iron and steel. |