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Show 'BUSINESS IN ALL NATIONS GROWS BETTER I r I 'Conditions Everywhere On Decided Upward Trend Reports Show ; AMERICANS CHEERED jU. S. Manufacturers Given j Brighter Pic-ture of Situation Situ-ation Abroad NEW YORK, CfCt. 25 Business ln 'Europe. Latln-AuMlca and the Par ; Km st Is steadily oR the, upgiadc ami with few exceptlmsj in hotter the world over delelgafei to the convention or the American Manufacturers' Export Ex-port association tf'ere told today by ,Dr. Julius Klein, director of tho Unit-led Unit-led States bureau of foreign and do-Imestic do-Imestic commerce. The convention, iwhich opened today will continue through tomorrow LMPROVKMEN C E EKYW HERE Conditions almost everywhere show Idecided improvement." Dr. Klein declared. de-clared. "In the orient conditions are better now than they have been at any time .-.in'.-' 1920 Japan Is putting herself her-self o it of the -dc'gh of economic degression de-gression and busuifcss In Ch.na Is getting get-ting better ! "Business Is picking up ln western Europi at a rate varylm: in different countries." Klein said. "Deflation has run lis course, ockN have, been -reduced and merchants have fjken theii losses; labor has taken Its cut and has shown a pronounced tendency to co-operate. Production, always tlv. fundamental basis of economic development. Is ln-creasing ln-creasing througnout h. entire area. ALL EXC1EPT RUSSIA. "Eastern Hurope. apart from Russia, Rus-sia, is generally 1 - oveiliiR Kiaihialiy from ravages of or and should offer ... . .i-iinn opportunities for American trade and in estmcnts. American trade with Iatln-Anieri-can countries for the first eight monthf of the present year was S per ci nt nurc In value than for all of the fiscal year 1913-14. and only 14 per Cenl less on the same oasis for. the corresponding period of last year when sh'pments were still being made at high prices on old contracts 01 great and far reaching significance Is the fact thai American investment in prl- ate enterprises and In the bonds of the governments of Latin-America have amounted to over $500,000,000 since the early part of 1921. I B V RFX o l.RS. Sale of the bumper sugar crop in Cuba at prices permitting a profit has encouraged a revival of purchasing ihroughnut the island. The large Stocks of merchandise held in bonded warehouses In Havana ha r been very materially 1 educed by re-exportation and local consumption The first gleam of optimism ln the Mexican situation sit-uation was evidenced during September Septem-ber largely due to congressional action of the de' la Huerta-Lamonte agreement agree-ment " 00 |