The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-11-06
JAPANESE SP|NDLES ARE ALL WH|RL|NG. Take Large Quantity of
 American Cotton GERMANY BUSY, TOO Empire Is Now Taking About Half the Quantity of American Cot ton Utilized In Normal
 Times
GERMANY BUSY, TOO

Washington, November 5.-(Special.) Following the announcement in The Age Herald that Japan this year will take s00,- 900 bales of American cotton, as against 375,00O last year, further details as to manufacturing conditions in that coun- try were given to the correspondent of The Age-Herald today. Like the first statement, this information came from the Japanese embassy
 According to this authority, not only have the spindles and running capacity of Japan been increased, but far more sub stantial increase is to be made without loss of time and many new mills are to be
 erected. The cotton goods trade from
 England to Japan, which has run into
 hundreds of millions of yards of all grades of texture. has been cut off by the
 war, and the Japanese propose to fur
 nish their own supply of the finished
 product in the future, istead of resuming these imports when the war may be con- cluded.
 England's Exports to Japan In 1912, says the Japanese embassy, England's exports to the land of Nippon ran to value of $40, 0O0, 600, but since the supply has been terminated Japan ex- pects to gather in most of this trade for itself. Considering the normal consump-
 tion of cotton goods in Japan alone, which it's local mills will be expected largely to supply, the American mills are ex-
 pected to become heavy bidders for busi-
 ness there. On the finer grades of cotton
 goods, however Japan has imposed d
 protective tariff, with a view, the en-
 bassy explained, to promoting the com merce of Japanese spinners, while coin cidently the spinners are looking to other
 countries of the orient for trade.
 AS eptomized at the embassy the cot
 lon goods trade in the orient heretofore
 held by Engiahd and Germany IS now to
 be divided between Japan and the Unted States.
 AS Japan sees it, the largest market for that country will be m Chlna where
 III the last few years cotton has been
 largely substituted for silk. In ,nis sub stitution, however the Chinese endeay or to get cotton goods as near silk" as pos
 slble, and this demand is met by the Japanese spinners by weaving the coarse
 fibers of China and East India with the
 America fiber of finer texture. to produce cloth that combines durability and ap- pearance. Cotton grown in China and East India alone will not produce the grade of goods demanded, and so Ameri-
 can cotton will continue to be factor in the output of Japan's mills.
 Of East Indian cotton, Japan buys twice as much as it does of American, and from all other countries it purchases about as 1 much as it obtains from the United States Thus, figuring the estimated increase based on last years consumption, Japan
 Will consume during 1914 between 1,6O0, 600
 and 100000 bales of the worlds supply. Cotton Mills of Germany Following the statement of the German embassy to The Age-Heraid, that all the cotton mills in that country are in operation, information from other sources today had it that this entire output wa q beng consumed at home, and even then the supply of manufactured goods was
 falling short Of the demand from the | army.
 The recent announcement that Germany would take 50,0o0 bales month for an in- definite period accounts for about half of the normal supply going to the German | mills. The imports through German ports 1 in 1913 approximated 2,350 900 bales and of the net German consumption, apart from the staple forwarded to other coun-
 tries, about 1,250,000 bales came from the
 United States. On March 1. German spin ners had on hand 100000 bales about half
 of which was American cotton. The situation, moreover, brings promi- | nently tc mind the fact that a great | amount of American cotton is returned | from Germany in cotton goods This ia
 largely attributed to Germany's superiori-
 ty in making dyes and turning out the 1 stamps and prints.
 l At the German embassy it was said that