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Rh cant growth of less than 4 per cent, from $68,458,000 to $71,098,000. It is of interest to note that while the largest increases in imports are credited to the United States, the United King- dom, and British India, the largest in- creases in exports occur under the head of China, United States, and Korea. Thus imports from the United States for the first six months of the year 1905 were $31,921,000, as against $13,328,- 000 during the same period of 1904 ; imports from the United Kingdom were $32,623,000, as against $16,982,000; imports from British India were $34,- 034,000, as against $21,092,000, while imports from Germany are stated as $10,794,000 for the first six months of this year, as against $6,985,000 for the same period of the year 1904. As re- gards imports from other countries, they have increased at a much lower rate, or else show decreases. The exports during the same periods were largest for China, which is credited with $21,932,000, as compared with $14,953,000 during the first six months of 1904. The United States ranks next among the countries to which Japanese products are destined, the figures for the first six months of 1905 being $20,304,000, as against $19,910,000 for the previous year. In the third place now stands Korea, with $5,852,000, as against $3,840,000 for the same period of 1904. The exports to the other countries are relatively small and, more- over, show decreases. Thus exports to France, one of Japan's large customers of silk, have fallen from $7,117,000 during the first six months of 1904 to $5,401,000 during the first six months of 1905. The exports to the United Kingdom have likewise decreased from $4,343,000 to $3,335-ooo> while exports to Germany have fallen from $1 ,098,000 in 1904 to $1,045,000 in 1905. The leading position of the United States in Japanese foreign commerce is seen from the fact that this country fur- nished 22.4 per cent of the total imports during the first six months of 1905, as compared with 14.7 per cent of the total imports during the same period of j 904, and is credited with 28.6 per cent of the total domestic exports during the first half year in 1905, as compared with 29.1 per cent of the total domestic ex- ports of Japan for the first six months in 1904.

OUR IMMIGRATION IN 1905 FOR the first time in the history of our country the number of for- eigners whom in twelve months we adopted as permanent citizens has ex- ceeded one million. The official fig- ures have just been published by the Bureau of Immigration and are given on the opposite page,

MAP OF THE PHILIPPINES FOR the map of the Philippine Isl- ands which was published as a supplement to the August number of this magazine we are indebted to the Bureau of the Census. The map was compiled under the special direction of Mr Henry Gannett, assistant director of the Philippine census, to illustrate the report on the Philippine census. Through the courtesy of Gen. A. W. Greely, U. S. A., chief signal officer, the government and civil telegraph lines were added to our edition of the map.

EXPORTS OF MANUFACTURES EXPORTS of manufactures from the United States in the fiscal year 1905 were not only the largest on record, but are in excess of the combined exports of all articles in the centennial year, 1876, and nearly 140 million dollars more than the total imports and exports of the country at the close of the civil war.

Statistics just compiled by the Bureau of Statistics of the Department of Commerce and Labor show that the exports