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Port? (and Basra) during tbe rear under Kerosene,
report:—
The Customs figures in this connection for the
past two years arc somewhat misleading until
From Bombay to No. of Packages Tea.
rightly interpreted.
pushixo • 42,200 They are:—
Kura • • 21,350
Kotcatt • * • 3,675
Bahrain • • 9.250 1914-15 1916-10
Too*. Ton*.
Bandar Abbas • 14,973
Mohammerah • 19.7SO Imported from U. S. A. . 419 283
Ahwai 8,624 Imported from India • . 0 7
13 u sot 14
Lingch • • 406 Imported from other countries • 5 1
Behai . • 4,407
Gwadur • • 20
Gulf Torla unspedBed 7,337 , But as a matter of fact no kerosene at all was
imported from the United States of America
1.32,036 during these two years, and on the other hand no
mention is made in the import statistics of the
Taking tbe 42,200 packages imported at 550 tons in 1914-15 and 500 tons in 1915-16
Bushirc as weighing 1,074 tons (some 25 chests which were actually imported from the refineries
to the ton: it may l>e estimated that the total of tie Auglo-Fersian Oil Company.
import up Gulf from or through Bombay weighed
some 5/200 tons. The reason for the iatter (apparent) omission
is that the oil fields are situated in Persia and
Export. therefore, although tbe oil arrives by sea, it is
merely transported from one part of Persia to
Opium.
another; whilst as for the American kerosene, in
Tbe export of opium for the past two years has 1913 a sufficient quantity for several years was
beeu great above the normal, doubtless owing to imported and bonded, 419 and 283 tons respec­
Persia being almost the only opium-producing tively being released from bond for sale during
country undisturbed by the war. *]Le total the years 1914-15 and 1915-16.
export, normally some 112 tons, rose in 1914-15 The actual import (including that of the
to 240, and in 1915-16 to 185, when the United indigenous article) was, for the past four years—
Kingdom again took two-thirds of the total
export. Ilongkong and Singapore came next in
order of importance, and it may be presumed that
the amounts shown in Custom statistics as “ to 1912-13 1913-14 1914-15 1915-16
India" was for one or other of these destinations. Cases. Cases. Case 8. Case*.
The distribution of recent yean has been as
Follows FromU.S.A, 30,153 59,396

■Trial 0. S. 'chiaJladl*. Sin ft port. Bonpkccf. From Abadan*)
Ton*. Tost. Toot. .Toot. Too*. Toe*. (A n g 1 o-Per- > 50 54.561 15,599 13,930
riaa). J
1EC6-00 17* a M From Sonia . 3,015 4,500
1100-19 M » a
3910*11 37 14 a 33,223 118.457 15,509 13,930
1911-13 109 u a 1
1912-11 130 94 99 14
About 28 cases go to a ton. It will be Been
1913-14 134 11 14 114 from the above statistics that the import into
1914-14 xto IO IS ir 14 3 Bushire of Russian oil (which still ^ holds the
1916-14 164 121 S3 19 U s market in Northern Persia) ceased entirely when
the Russian steamers ceased to visit Bushire from
• Al*o "to Dutch Indies" 19 toss. Odessa.