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Freights. Wool (April 10:7; . 200 •billing* per to*.
Export rates for gcnaral cargo to India rose to Carpets (Jane 1916) . • 250 m m .
very high figurer.- „ (April 1917) . 290 m 99
General . Rs. 30 per ton.
Gum (Jon* 1916) . . .130-160 m
All shipments to London were by transhipment * (April 1917) , .270-290 m m
in India, rates rising as follows:— 99
Opium • » . 100 shillings per chest Table No. 1* A.’—Comparative statement of
Wool (March 1916) . 140 99 „ ton, imports into Bushire from all countries during the
* (M.y « ) • 165 99 rears 1914-15, 1915-lty 1916-17.
« »• ) • 130 *• ft
I
Incro.ue in Decrcu* in Approximate per­
1916-17. 1916-17 centage.
Country. 1914-16. 1915-16. 1916-17. comr&rrd compared
with wi-b
191516- 1915-16. 1915-16. 1916-17.

£ £ £ £ £ % %
India 331.817 CC8.670 1,036,818 368,243 86-01 79-78
United Kingdom 193.704 75,333 208,398 132,965 9*69 16-03
Dutch Indies 1.703 8,038 3,963 • H 4*075 1-04 0-31
Mesopotamia 7.008 7,364 17,147 9,783 1-33
Onum • 1.191 4,9-43 25,379 20,43® 0-64 1-95
Bahrain • . , 11,899 3,844 3,814 0-49
United States of America 3,770 3,064 223 2;S41 0-39
Switzerland • • • 2.490 88 2,402 0-32
Hongkong • , . 2.-108 814 814
Muscat ... 2,095 784 IN 784
France 35,774 660 86 674 061
Italy . 333 654 72 482 0*47
Xotheriands *56 455
Kuwait . 1,712 302 303
German/ , 28,825 101 101
Other Countries 108 1 7.488 7,487
Belgium • 38,020 •••
Austria-Hungary 4,941
Bussia • 731

Turn 669,339 777.317 1*99J6* ! 638,919 16,674 100 100
Irorevi m 1916-17
£522,21*