UNITED STATES.
JAPAN'S FOREIGN TRADE,
REMARKABLE INCREASES, Received March 17, 8:25 p.m. Washington, March 13. The United States Tariff Commission has issued a report dealing with Japan's foreign trade, which increased ffom 670,000,000 dollars in 1013 to 1,319/UO,000 dollars in 1917. The exports amounted to 310,000,000 dollars in 1913, and 801,000,000 in 1017 j the imports 304,000,000 in 1913 and 517,000,000 in 1917. The greatest gain in exports was to China. The exports to Britain and India amounted to 14,000,000 in 1913, and 50,000,000 in 1917, while exports to Australia amounted to 4,000,000 in 1913 and 14,000,000 in 1917.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assoc.
ARREST OP BOLSHEVIKS. New York, March 14. The police raided a meeting of the members of the Union of Russian Peasants of America and made over a hundred arrests. The literature seized ineluded books printed in Russian advocating the overthrow of the United States Government. Debs, in a farewell speech at Cleveland l>efore starting to serve his ten years' sentence, approved of the Bolsheviks and described Lenin and Trotsky as the foremost statesmen of the age. —Renter. Some of the prisoners will probably be deported. No violence occurred.
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