The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-07-11
U. EXPORTS
 TO ARCTIC AND
 RUSSIAN FRONT

The announcement from Moscow that a state of war has been pro- claimed in the Province of ArchangeL Russia. coupled with the simultaneous statement from Washington that large quantities of war materials shipped to Archangel and to the adja- cent port of Kola ares till lying un- used along the railway tracks in that vicinity, lends interest to a complla- ton by The National City Bank or New York regarding our shipments | of merchandise to that section of Russia since the beginning of the war
 The banks figures show that, of the S1.Oso. 100000 worth of material shipped from the United States to Russia since the beginning of the war, about $T5O,O0o,000 worth went to those two Arctic ports of Russia Archangel and Kola, and $322,OOO,- l 900 to Vladivostok. Russia's chief port on the Pacific.
 Only these two routes of approach by ocean transportation were left open to Russia when the war began and her usual highway to the ocean, the Baltic, was closed to transpora- ton, though comparatively small quantities were sent by way of cer- tain ports of Norway and thence by land to Russia. The port Of Arch- angel, on the White Sea, occupying a part of the Arctic frontage, was al- ready connected with St. Petersburg and Moscow by rail, and in the first IT months of the war there was ex- ported from the United States to Archangel about $13O. 100000 worth of merchandise, chiefly war materials and supplies for the armies. It soon develoed, however, that the port or l Archangel and its rail outlet to Pet rograd and Moscow could not handle all of the material required by Rus sia, much of which was drawn from the United States; also that the. port would be unable to handle merchan4 disc in winter by reason of ice trou- bles unless the great ice-breaktng steamers should be able to keep it open by artificial means. As conse- ouence, merchandise sent from the United States to Russia began in the latter part of 1915 O move to Russia 8 Pacf1o port of Vladivostok to be thence transported 5000 miles by rail to Moscow and Petrograd, and in the second half of 1915, $26,OO0,0OO worth of merchandise was sent from the United States to Vladtvostok, though the amount sent to the Arctic frontage of Russia in that period was about S95,00O,OO0 worth.
 Meantime, the Russian authorities bethought themselves of the fact that another port on the Arctic frontage, Kola. was by reason of the climatic influences of the Gulf Stream less subject to ice troubles than Arch angel, and the construction of rail- rotd through Finland to connect Kola with Petrograd and Moscow was hastily undertaken, and in prospect of its early completion large quant1' ties of merchandise were shipped from the United States to Kola. IT the calendar year 1918 the value oi merchandise sent from the United States to the Arcic frontage of Rus sia. including both Kola and Arch angel, was $S09, 9,607, 900 and to Vladi vostok. S160,702,00O. In 1917 th' shipments to the Arctic frontage, Kol and Archangel. were $314, 4,630,o00 ant to vIadivostok s109, ,1669,000. Ship ments to Russia were greatly reduce, in the closing months of 1917, the en tire movement from the United State to the Arctic frontage having been il the five months of 1918 but $3,060,00 and to the Pacific frontage $2,850, ,00O
 The total value of merchandis shipped from the United States to tn Arctic frontage of Russia, Archange and Kola, from the beginning of tn war to date was in round terms $750, OOO, ,000, while the value of that goin by way of her Pacific frontage, chief ly Vladivostok was $321, 900, 900. Wit this enormous quantity of merchan disc from the United States alone, cou pied with that from other parts of tn world, the receipts of merchandis at the Arctic and Pacific frontage soon came to exceed the transportin capacity of the railways, and quanti ties of war material and military sup plies accumulated at both frontagei some of which presumably still re main in the vicinity of the ports a which they were landed.
 Shoe manufacturers are placed O the preferential list of essential wa