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Show oo mm SUPREMACY IN SILK WL IS LOST BY FRANCE Bp " WASHINGTON. Sept. 25. Compai - lativs figures on silk production, based H I on the last crop would seem to in- H dlcate lhat France is losing its su- H Ipremacy In the silk Industry. A report H from the European division of the bur- Kjy icau of commerce says, however, that H great increases in production were- IB : noted In the countries of the east and H I particularly the Levant. H Bilk production In France this year 1 satisfied but 10 per cent of tho domes- tic requirements despite liberal boun- H . ties offered for silk culture. Italy In 1 HO 9 produced ten times as much silk H las France and bids fair to maintain 1 that had while Milan is rapid! v eellp- I sing Lons as a silk manufacturing center, the report continued. H According to figures complied by H silk merchants of Lyons, Japan led In H silk production in 1019, China Whs 1 I next, the Levant third Italy fourth Bef and Franco a had fifth. The total 1 'yield tor the world was estimated at H M BOO, 000 kilos (of 2.20 pound-). 1 |