The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-18
NEW YORK EXPORTS
 $40, 900 IN WAR MATERIAL IN WEEK

New York, Aug. 18-Twenty mil lion dollars worth of explosives, 10 million dollars worth of shells and shell materials, two million dollars worth of wire. barbed and otherwise, two million dollars worth of automo- piles, two million dollars worth of chemicals, over 8 million dollars worth of acids, and nearly a million dollars worth of firearms, is last weeks record of war materials sent out of the Port of New York.
 These figures are, <of course, in very round terms. The detailed state ment of the Foreign Trade Depart ment of the National City Bank shows for the week ending Aug. 12, 6 1-2 million dollars worth of smokeless powder; over six million dollars worth of loaded projectiles; 2 Ia mill lion dollars worth of gun cotton; more than two million dollars worth of fuses; over million dollars worth of cartridges; a million dollars worth of trinitrotoluol; three-Quarters of a million dollars worth of firearms; over half million dollars worth of empty shells, and nearly nine million dollars worth of brass tubing for the manufacture of shells; over a million dollars worth of picric avid for the manufacture of high explosives; two million dollars worth of automobiles; chiefly for use in the war zone; over million dollars worth of barged wire; g million dollars worth of zinc in various forms, chiefly for war pur- poses ;over two million dollars worth of meta1-worlxing machinery, and 4 1-2 million dollars worth of cop per, chiefly for use in manufacturing materials for war purposes.
 Other articles exported aside from those distinctly military. are 1-2 million dollars worth of sugar; 1 1-2 million dollars worth of cotton goods manufactures; nearly half-million dollars worth of boots and shoes; approximately million dollars worth of agricultural machinery: nearly a half-milHon dollars worth of canned meats and milk; a million dol lars worth of locomotives and cars; half q million dollars, worth of knit goods and yarns, two million dollars worth of naptha and gasoline; a mill lion dollars worth of Illuminating oil, and a half-mi1lion dollars worth of lubricating; a half million dollars worth of India rubber manufactures and a quarter of million dollars worth of tin plate.
 The destination of the ST million dollars worth of exports for the week l was chiefly the countries at war. To France alone the exports for the week were 29 1-2 million dollars; to Great
 Britain 25 millions; to Russia ap-
 proximate1y 10 millions, and to Italy 41-2 millions. Thus practically 6s million dollars worth exported during | the week went to the four principa l Allied nations, France, Great Britain Russia and Italy. The total to those l countries in the corresponding week
 one year ago is 22 million dollar. against 3 1-2 millions two years ago | To other parts of the world, how ! ever, there are considerable increases Y To South America the total for tho l week is, in round terms, million 1 dollars. against less than 1-2 mil l lions in the same week of 1915 ant l less than one million in the core
 spending week of 1914. To Argen
 tina alone the exports of the weel
 were over million dollars agains
 a little less than one million dollar l in the same week of last year, ant one-third of million in the corre l spending week of 1914
 To Cuba the exports of the wee1
 were over 2 million dollars, agains 1 3-4 of million in the same week o
 last year and half million in tn
 corresponding week two years ago.
 To the extreme Orient, China, Ja pan, Philippines and Dutch East In
 dies the total for the week was 1 H.
 million dollars. against a little owe
 half million in the correspondini
 week one. year ago and less than {;
 quarter of million in the same weel