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inland by a route which supplies Hie hinterland of The most notable feature of the year was the
Buriiirc, and i< also an alternative road to Shiraz. complete elimination of German s::i]»s fiem trade
0 il of l.\6l 1 t--ns of merchandise imported at with the Gulf from August 1914 after S years*
B ;>hirc ::r 1913-H, some 7,SI5 tons were for- work on the part of the Ilamhurg-Amerika Line
warded l»y (a), 5,8*15 tons distributed to ('/), and during which for political reasons and owing to
2,SS1 tors sent by (c). i the full outward cargoes of railway material and
For 1 r*l 1-15 it has been impossible to procure . sugar obtained, the Lino had become a source o£
similar figures fur (4) and (c) ; those given for [a) j menace to British interests in the Persian Gulf.
Forwardings to Shiraz are, as usual, based on ; The number of German vessels entered during
figures .-npplied by nearly all Bush ire merchants : the year was G as against 28 in 1918-11. Only
tl-y are probably not exhaustive, or accurate in one Russian ship entered the Persian Gulf during
! seme figures furnished, but they tally fairly well the year under review, owing to the closure of the
with the number of mule and donkey loads given Dardanelles to Russian tralfie in the cailv autumn
above iu the Road Traffic Table. The figures of of 19 U.
clearance through the Customs are reliable, and Freights.
1 a sod on Customs statistics. i Export rates for general cargo to. India were
O'i-’cC O.rtcj}. Cutout. forward*.! to Sbirac subject to considerable changes.
15-1M3 1913*21 101115 1MM3 191 Ml 1911-15 In 1918-1V rates for General cargo had been by
! Ton T.>nt Torn Tom list Tom fast mail Rs. 15 per ton of 20 owls., by subsidiary
L'lffojrT . . 00.19 5,0.11 4.017 2,513 2,c'o 3,250 mail Its. 10.
l n ,U1 mt . 3.701 2.923 2.911 720 95< 1.017
I T«» . . . 220 170 1X0 234 -*‘J 701 In 1911 15:—
S:Vci . . . 145 171 315 127 US 301
lUc . . . 1.405 2.710 1.77S ................ March t > Anrnst— IVr.Lay. Karachi.
i: »r . . . 133 1,103 30 ... 19 17 R«. jl p. ?.$. X. ?.
W!»at . . . 21 391 13 ... 115 19 Fa>t Mad . 15 O 0 17 S 0
r.iicy . . . rs -:<i ............
l'.-.e-M. 1* cotton). 3/«» IS .1 1,017 1.7S1 1.9^ 1/03 Subd i'.ary Mail 10 0 0 12 S 0
V>-r.' h- i thread 130 181 125 03 HO 122
• -It *n. Ar.ru>; to r'ctc.iihcr—
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J'-i'.k' Tiis^o* 00-1 so ... 9 03 27 Irr’cguia: * c:\ice . 12 S 0 15 0 0
Yarn.
V .Tolu-, 40 139 02 43 S3 2S Juratory to March 1015—
I\- ro««cc 772 229 421 129 112 125 • Fast Mail .
>!-Ml. y. tin.etc.) 251 453 402 117 193 1J9 17 S 0 20 0 0
thinavarf, caitlcu- 120 99 31 70 -IS 23 | SubsUitry MaO 13 0 0 17 8 0
ware.
0!ii»w.ve . ■ 32 21 10 9 11 3 Rates for Dates during the season were Rs. 20
Window giiii 9 IS S 2 ^ to Bombay and Rs. 22-3-0 to Karachi.
Cv.dlu . 199 51 93 191
Ci.i.’nirtl jr«>lccti . Ol CO 20 IS 93 22 :
I'l/e: . . . 37 33 25 23 23 17 • For General Cargo.
I- ligO . 12 14 3 10 10 C
F-rapc (rr’iiUry) . 82 53 11 ... Freight to the United Kingdom from Bushire
C- al slJ Charcoal . 3-2 416 453 ... ... i had been per *cale ton iu :—
T.a.ber . 1,702 1.C23 1.899 ...
Mistfllaci-rna . 90S 1.032 2.0S5 141 209 233 £ m. d. £ a. d.
I 1907-08 .
1 0 0 to 0 15 0
Toai . 19,712 23,01118.011 0.219 7,185 7,333 j 19C&-C9 . 0 15 0 „ 0 17 6
Shipping. | 101*0*10 . 0 17 6 „ 1 0 0
j 1910-11 .10 0,1 5 0
As was only to be expected, the outbreak of j 1911-12 . 1 2 6 ., 1 7 0
the European war in August 1914- reduced the ; .0 0 0 ,1 6 6
numbers of entrances to and cleaiauces from the ! .13 6,.! 0 6
port as compared with previous years, though j A very remarkable rise occurred in 1914-15 from
the effect of the Mesopotamian expedition hardly ! 20s. Gd. at the end of the March 1914- the rates
made itself felt in the cargo carrying trade from j rose to £1-10-6 early in November, then after
India till after March 1915. j the outbreak of the Mesopotamian campaign
The total number of entrances of steanipsbips to • again«t Turkey to £2-0-5 early in March 1915,
the poit was 145 as compared with 192 in March j an(1 £2-10-0 at the end of that month.
1913-1911, and the tonnage 244,150 and 325,405 The charge per chest of Opium rose £rom 25
tons, respectively that of British steamers 138 ! shillings in March to 35 shillings in November
as compared with 1 Cl vessels, and 225,655 tons j 1914; to 40 shillings in February and 60 6bii-
as compared with 203,114 tong. | lings at the end of March 1915. _
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