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Bunder Addas.

Proportion of Ex porta
Vnluo.
to Total Exports.
Country.
1905. 1906. 1905. 1906.
£ Por cent Por cent
United Kingdom and India 127,533 118,066 82 82
Russia 1,203 10,178 1 7
Turkoy and Turkish Arabia 7,501 9,388 5 6
China 1,0>0 1
Egypt 1,291 355
Switzerland .. •107 125
Arabia .. 3,844 •190
Muscat 1,099 561
Bahrein 2,250 1,163 } 12 5
Hong Kong .. 6,467
Arab Coast.. ,, 781 2,579
Persian ports 4,120 267
Other countries 201 135 J
Total 155,762 144,387 100 100

Bushire.

Proportion of Exports
Value.
to Total Exj>orts.
Couutry.
1905. 1906. 1905. 1906.
£ £ Por cent. Per cent.
United Kingdom and India 245,231 325,814 53 54
China 104.982 110,075 22 19
Turkoy .. .. 40,704 43,818 9 7
Germany .. ,. 10,565 24,228 2 4
Egypt 24,616 39,941 5 6
America 1,114 16,200
Austria-Hungary 3 371
Bahrein 14,064 12.604
Russia .. .. 2,102 10,482
France 3,314 3,169 9 10
Dutcn East Indies 1,469 3.035
Belgium 5 2,944
Various 21,741 5,740
Total 469,940 598,421 100 100

An interesting and exhaustive report was
drawn up in November 1907 by Mr. Vice-Consul
Chick of Bushire on the operations of the
Hamburg - America Line in the Persian. Gulf
during the first year of their venture, and on the
bearing of this venture on the prospects of British
commerce, The report was accompanied by
detailed statistics.
The main conclusions arrived at were as
follows
The enterprise involved, on the admission of
the master of one of the German vessels, a dead

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