The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1918-07-17
OUR TRADE WITH
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America Has Shipped Great Quanti-
ty to Kola and Archangel

The announcement from Moscow
that state Of war had Ecen proclaim
ed in the Province of Archangel, Rus
sIa, coupled with the simultaneous
statement from Washington that large
quantities Of war materials shipped to
Archangel and to the adjacent port of
kola are still lying unused along the
railway tracks in the vicinity lends
interest to a compilation by the Ma
tlonal City Bank Of New York regard
ing our shipments of merchandise to
that section Of Russia since the begin
ming of the war.
The banks figures show that, of the
81 100000 worth of material shin
ped from the United States to Russia
since the beginning of the war, about
S75O,0o0,0O0 worth went to those two
Arctic ports Of Russia, Archangel and
Kola, and $322,0 100000 to V!ad;vcstck.
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 10 the ocean, the Baltic
was closed to transportation, though
comparatively small quantities were
sent by way cf certain ports of Nor
way and thercc by land to Russia. The
port of Archangel, on the White sea.
occupying part of the Arctiv front
ags, was already connected with st.
Petersburg and Moscow by rail- and in
the list II months of the war there
was exported from the United States
to Archangel about $4,000 900
worth of merchandise, chiefly war ma
terlals and supplies for the armies. 1t
soon developed however, that the port
or Archangcl and it's rail outlet to Pc
trograd and Moscow could not handle
all of the material required by Russia,
mu'h CT which was drawn from the
United States, also that the port
would be unable to handle mcrchan-
d'sc IN winter by reason of ice trou-
b'es unless the great ice-breakinp
steamers should be able to keen it
open by artificial means. AS a con-
sequence, merchandise went from the
United States to Russia began in the
latter part of 1915 to move to Russia's
Pacific port of Vladivostok to be
thence transported five thousand
miles by rail to Moscow and Petro-
grad nad in the second half of 1915
S26,0OO,000 worth of merchandise was
sent from the United States to Vladi-
vostok, though the amount sent to the
Arctic frontage of Russia in that per-
Iod was about $4,000 900 worth.
Meantime, the Russian authorities
hethought themsclvs; Of the fact that
another port on the Arctic frontage.
kola, was by reason Of the climate in
tluences of the Gulf stream less sub
Ject to ice troubles than Archanpc]
and the construction of railroad
through FINLAND to connect Kola with
''trograd and Moscow was hastily
a. rtakcn, and in prospect of it's ear
IS npletion large quantities of mer-
..andisc were shipped from the Uni
ted States to Kola. In the calendar
year 1916, the value of merchandise
sent from the United States to the
Arctic frontage Of Russia, including
both Kola, and Archangcl, was $780,
$4,000 and to Vladivoocok, $160, ,7O2.-
600. In 1917 the shipment to the Arc
tic frontage, Kola and Archangel were
s314,630,000 and to Vladivostok $lO9,-
10000. Shipments to Russia were
greatly reduced in the closing months
Of 1917. The entire movement from
the United States to the Arctic front
age having been in the five months Of
1918 but $3,O60,00O, and to the Pacific
frontage $2,85O,OOO.
The total value of merchandise ship
ped from the United States to the
Arctic frontage Of Russia, Archanpel
and kola, was in round terms $780,
100000, while the value of that going
by way of her Pacific frontage, chief
ly Vladivostok, was 1921 900 900. With
this enormous quantity of merchan-
disc from the United States alone,
coupled with that from other parts of
the world, the receipts of mcrchan-
disc at the rctic and Pacific front