WORLD’S DOINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume of General News
from All Around The Earth.
UNIVERSAL HAPPENINGS IN A NUTSHELL
Live News Items of All Nations and
Pacific Northwest Condensed
for Our Busy Readers.
Heavy rains in Northwestern Ohio
are causing alarm.
Omaha is visited by a severe storm
which did much^damage.
Austria denies the report that the
Italian navy sunk many of the form er's
ships.
A postoffice clerk at Wallace, Idaho,
has confessed to robbing the safe of
$ 20 , 000 .
Oregon wins grand prize for the best
collection of minerals at the Panama-
Pacific exposition.
A t St. Johns, N. F., cod fishermen
report fish plentiful but a scarcity o f
sait caused by the European war.
Welsh miners in the Rhondda dis
trict, which furnish coal for the Brit
ish navy, voted 2 to I to go on strike.
Polk and Yamhill counties, in Ore
gon,
are
quarantined because of
rapidly-spreading rabies among stock.
Valdez, Alaska, an important sea
port, is visited by a $500,000 fire,
which wiped out the main part o f the
city.
SUBMARINE FORCES AMERICAN SHIP
IO ACT AS SCREEN FROM VICTIM
Liverpool— How an American ship
is alleged to have been used as a shield
by a German submarine for the sink
ing o f another vessel is the story re
lated by members o f the crew o f the
American bark Normandy, which has
arrived here from Gulfport, Miss.
The story is that the Normandy was
stopped by a German submarine 60
miles southwest of Tuskar Rock, otf
the southeast coast o f Ireland. Friday
night. The captain was called aboard
the submarine, where his (tapers were
examined and found to show that the
ship was chartered by an American
firm January 5.
The captain o f the bark, it was as
serted, was allowed to return to the
Normandy, but under the threat that
his ship would be destroyed unless he
stood by and obeyed orders.
These
orders, it was said, were that he was
to act as a shield for the submarine,
which lay at the side o f the bark, hid
ing itself from an approaching vessel.
This vessel proved to be the Russian
steamer Leo. Presently the submarine
submerged and proceeded around the
bow o f the Normandy, so the story
went, and 10 minutes later the crew of
the Normandy saw the Leo blown up.
Twenty-five persons were on board,
o f whom 11 were drowned, including
three stewardesses.
Thse saved included three Americans
— Walter Emery, o f North Carolina;
Harry Clark, of Sierra, and Harry
Whitney, o f Camden, N. J.
All these three men, when inter
viewed, corroborated the foregoing
story. They declared that no oppor
tunity was given those on board the
Leo for saving life.
The Leo was bound from Philadel
phia to Manchester with a general car
go.
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Edison Will Head American Board
of Invention for Army and Navy
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Cunarder Has 22 Americans Aboard
On Hazardous Trip, Who Give
Details on Reaching Port.
New York — The Cunard liner Or
duna, bound from Liverpool to New
York with 227 passengers, including
22 Americana, was attacked without
warning, it was learned on her arrival
here Sunday, by a German submarine
on the morning o f July 9.
Twenty miles from the grave o f the
Lusitania, off Oldhead o f Kinsale, the
Orduna escaped the Lusitania’s fate bv
half a second o f time or 10 feet of
space, the German torpedo churning
the water that distance behind the
liner’s rudder. Then the Orduna sped
away. She was followed by the sub
marine, which rose to the surface,
manned a gun on her deck and shelled
the fleeing steamer.
The attack was at 10 minutes to 6
o ’clock in the morning, when all but a
few o f her passengers lay sleeping in
their berths.
Aroused by stewards,
the passengers dressed hurriedly and
went to the upper deck, where they
put on life belts and took their places
at the lifeboats.
They heard the
scream o f the shells and saw the ocean
spit up columns o f water where the
shells struck.
When the fire grew hot, they were
ordered, for their own protection, to
the next deck below.
For half an hour the Orduna showed
her heels to the assailant. Through
marine glasses the passengers watched
the dark splotch on the water's surface
astern. They saw the low-lying Ger
man warship coming on with a bone in
her teeth, but the Drduna’s flight was
faster than the pursuit and after seven
shots had been fired without effect, the
submarine gave up the chase.
A wireless call for help was sent out
by the Orduna when the torpedo was
seen. She was then 37 miles Routh of
Queenstown. The reply. Captain Tay
lor says in his official report, was that
help would be given within an hour.
It was four hours before the first Brit
ish vessel, an armored yacht, the
Jeannette, appeared.
Protest will be made to the Ameri
can government by at least one citizen
o f the United States and possibly
others who were aboard
All Washington and Oregon give
hearty reception to the Liberty Bell on
West Orange, N. J. — Thomas A.
its journey from Philadelphia to San
Edison has accepted an invitation from
Francisco.
Secretary Daniels to head an ad
Germany makes formal answer to visory board o f civilian inventors for a
the United States in which regrets for bureau of invention and development
attack on the steamer Nebraskan is to be created in the navy department.
expressed.
His acceptance will go forward at
An ex-Philadelphian, residing in Al once to Washington, where the new
bany, Or., saw the Liberty Bell for plans await word from the man "w h o
the first time when it passed through can turn dreams into realities.”
Mr. Daniels’ idea o f utilizing the
that city recently.
inventive genius of Americans in and
It is reported from Washington that out of the military and naval service to
Turkey is expected to enter protest meet conditions o f warfare shown in
against the United States for shipment the conflict on land and sea in Europe
o f war munitions to the allies.
is outlined in a letter written last
The health department o f New York Wednesday asking Mr. Edison wheth
City reports that in the past ten years er, as a patriotic service to his coun
milk drinking has increased 50 per try, he would undertake the task of
The
cent, while saloons have materially de advising the proposed bureau.
plan is to have several men prominent
creased.
in special lines of inventive research
For trying to sell to butchers the
associated in the work.
meat of a cow that had died from
Among the great problems to be laid
"m ilk fev e r,” William Richterich, a before the investigators the secretary
dairyman of Hillsdale, Oregon, was mentioned submarine warfare, adding
fined $100.
that he felt sure that with Mr. Edi
The Motion Picture Exhibitors’ as son’s wonderful brain to help them the
sociation in session in San Francisco officers of the navy would be able “ to
pledges itself to start a campaign to meet this new danger with new devices
Washington, D. C. — It is reported
defeat all attempts at censoring film that will assure peace to our country
again that Secretary McAdoo has ex
dramas in the United States.
by their effectiveness.”
pressed his intention o f leaving the
The French are arming their troops
cabinet.
In the coming fight in behalf
New York City Grows.
with a short knife for use in trench
o f President Wilson, his father-in-law,
New York— Father Knickerbocker’s he does not wish the charge made
warfare, thus displacing the bayonet,
which, when fixed in the rifle, is too population has increased almost half a against him that he is in the fight par
long a weapon to give a man free play million in the last five years. To be ticularly for his own job, and he fears
in the narrow trenches.
exact, the normal growth o f the great it may injure the President to have a
The so-called “ treasure murder” er city from the day the national cen member o f his own family in his cab
case at Bedford, la ., in which four sus takers finished their work in 1910 inet.
Several business offers have been
aged men were accused of having com until June 13 last, when the state
mitted a murder nearly half a century enumerators started in, was 478,929, made Mr. McAdoo, among which is the
ago, were dropped after Bates Hunts an increase o f more than 10 per cent. presidency of one o f the largest bank
His
man, the defendant, whose hearing According to census supervisors of ing institutions o f New York.
was in progress, was set free by Jus Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, the predecessors, Secretary Shaw and Sec
Bronx and Richmond, New York had a retary Gage, took advantage of such
tice Sawyer.
population of 5,245,812 on June 13, as opportunities and have become rich.
The 1916 national convention o f the
Secretary McAdoo could be the gov
compared with 4,766,883 in 1910.
Elks will be held in Baltimore.
ernor general o f the Federal Reserve
board if he would accept. The term
An Italian merchantman used the
French Contribute Gold.
Greek flag to avoid German subma
Paris — The flow o f gold from the of Mr. Hamlin, the present governor,
rines.
private stocks o f the public into the expires the first o f the year, and Mr.
McAdoo could then be appointed for
Colonel Alden J. Blethen, editor and Bank o f France continues. More than the long term on the Federal Reserve
10,000
persons
deposited
gold
at
the
publisher o f the Seattle Times, dies
bank during Friday and Saturday. Re board.
after a long illness.
Mr. Hamlin is expected to make the
cently the Bank of France extended an
The German Crown Prince’s advance invitation to the public to turn in its race in Massachusetts for governor or
against the French is said to have private hoards o f gold to strengthen for United States senator if the ad
been materially checked.
the national reserve.
The response ministration is behind him, and Mr.
McAdoo would be retained at the head
Villa is reported to have penetrated was such that the bank had to desig
of the Federal Reserve board, which
the lines o f the Carranzaistas and com nate a half dozen receiving tellers to
he created.
take the coin offered.
pletely isolated Vera Cruz.
There are two other resignations
Views of the American press on the
scheduled for the first o f the year in
Trade Balance Continues.
German reply to the recent note are
the cabinet, and the fight for Wilson
Washington, D. C. — A favorable the next year will be led by new and
said to be surprising to Berlin.
trade balance of $20,545,773 was
Many parts o f the Canary Islands shown by the weekly statement of im reinforced heads of the administration.
are shaken by earthquake shocks and ports and exports at the 13 principal
Men’s Places Filled by Women.
considerable damage is reported.
ports of the United States, issued by
Hull, England— A fter arguing the
the
department
o
f
Commerce.
The
An aviator at a height of 1800 feet
at Spokane succeeded in landing safely statement shows $29,896,465 for im pros and cons o f the proposal to em
after being upside down with a broken ports and $50,442,243 for exports. The ploy women conductors on the street
balance is an increase o f more than cars here for a month, the unions have
plane.
$3,000,000 over the first week o f last been compelled to yield to the pressure
For experimental purposes the U. S. month and $11,000,000 over last week. o f circumstances and admit the new
Navy department has bought several
labor. It was found impossible to ob
torpedo nets to hang around battle
tain sufficient male labor to operate
French Outbuy Bond Issue.
ships and protect them from torpedo
Paris— The minister o f finance, M. the necessary cars and the alternative
attacks. Secretary Daniels said these
Ribot, introduced in the chamber of to employing women was the stopping
were of the same type as those em deputies a bill raising the limit o f the of the cars.
Women will receive the
ployed by the European navies.
issue of national defense bonds from same as the men, but the war bonusus
England has succeeded in negotiat $1,200,000,000, as fixed in the law of heretofore paid will be given the men
Subscrip only, who will turn the trolley poles.
ing another huge war loan of $3,000,- May 18, to $1,400,000,000.
000,000, subscribed mainly by patrons tions already have exceeded the prev
Absent Spy Condemned.
ious limit by $30,000,000. The French
of the postoffice.
public in 11 months has taken $1,680,-
Paris — Sentence o f death has been
The Liberty Bell en route from 000,000 of national bonds.
passed by a court-martial at Marseilles
Philadelphia to San Francisco, gets
upon Herman Hochel, now in Germany,
momentous reception in Portland and
War Gets 200,000 Horses.
who was tried and found guilty on a
other Northwestern cities.
Hinton, W. Va.— F ifty men were charge o f systematic espionage against
A favorable trade balance of $17,- added to the force required to handle France before the declaration o f war
674,214 is indicated by the U. S. De the war horses fed and watered here and was not present at the trial to de
The accused man, who
partment o f Commerce statement on on their way from the West to the A t fend himself.
imports and exports for the week lantic seaboard. Fully 200,000 horses was the Marseilles representative o f a
ended July 10. 1716 trade balance ex have been handled since the European German sulphur company for 11 years,
ceeded that for a similar period in war began, according to the officers in was charged with having relations
with a foreign power.
charge.
June by more than $3,000,000.
Secretary McAdoo Expected to
Quit Wilson Cabinet, Is Rumor
or
I C o m t s il* S a lo o n , captain o f French
raw tlry, tukce to hit q o a r tr is to raise to
hand a m otherless Irish terrier pup. ami
nam es It I'ttehoune
lie illues with the
M arquise d ’ K scItgnar ami m eets Miss Ju
lla Itedmomt. Am erican heiress
H e is o r
dered to A ld e r s but Is not allow ed to
taka servants or dogs
M iss lledm om l
tak es rare o f Pltchoune. who, lo u d n g for
Ills m aster, runs aw ay from her
The
m arquise plana to m arry J olla to the l>uc
de T rem ont. Pltchoune follow s Hahron to
A lgiers, deg and m aster m eet, and Hahron
aeia Permission to keep his dog with Idin.
The l>uc de Trem ont Hods the Am erican
heiress capricious
Sabron. wounded In
a n engagem en t, falls Into ths dry bed of
a river and 1s w atched over by Pltehoune
vile r a horrible night and day Pltchoune
le vvea him. T rem onl takes Julia and the
m arquise to A ig le ts In bis yacht but has
doubts About J ulia's tied C ross m ission.
Viler long search Julia gets trace of He
b ron 's w hereabouts.
Julia for tha m o
m ent turns tnatchm ak er In b eh alf of Tre
m oot.
Ila m m e t
Abou tells the M a r
quise where he thinks Habron m ay be
found. Trem ont decides to go with H a m -
m et Abou to And Sabron.
CHAPTER XXI—Continued.
"Fatou Annl la nearly one hundred
years old. She has borne twenty chil
dren, she has had fifty grandchildren;
she has Heen many wives, many brides
and many mothers She doe* not be^
lleve the sick man has the Evil Eye
She Is not afraid of your fifty armed
men. Futou Annl Is not afraid. Al
luh la great.' She will not give up the
Frenehman because of fear, nor will
ah« give him up lo any man. She
glvea him to the women of hla people ’’
With dignity and majesty and with
great beauty of carriage, the old worn
an turned and walked toward her hut
und the Bedoulna followed her.
CHAPTER XXII.
Into the Desert.
A week after the caravan of the Due
de Tremont left Algiers. Julia Red
mond came unexpectedly to the villa
of Madame de la Maine at an early
morning hour. Madame de la Maine
saw her atandtng on the threahold of
her bedroom door
‘There Madame." Julia said, "I am
leaving today with a dragoman and
twenty servants to go Into the desert ”
Madame de la Maine was still In
bed. At nine o'clock she read her pa
pers and her correspondence
"Into the desert alone'"
Julia, with her eravaehe tn her
gloved hand*, smiled sweetly though
she was very pale "I had not though'
of going alone, Madame," she replied
with charming aaaurance, "I knew you
would go with me.”
On a chair by her bed was a wrap
per of blue silk and lace. The rom
tesse sprang up and then thruat her
feet Into her slippers and stared at
Julia
"What are you going to do In the
desert ?"
"Watch! ”
"Yea, yes!” nodded Madame de la
Maine. "And your aunt?”
"Deep In a haznnr for the hospital,"
smiled Miss Redmond.
Madame de la Maine regarded her
slender friend with admiration and
envy. “ Why hadn't I thought of It?”
She rang for her maid
"Because your great-grandfather
was not a pioneer!” Miss Redmond
answered.
The sun which, all day long, held
the desert In Its burning embrace,
w«nt westward In his own brilliant
caravan
"The desert blossoms like a rose.
Therese ”
"Like a roee?" questioned Madame
de la Maine
She was sitting In the door of her
tent; her white dress and her white
It was rare for the caravan to pasa
by Beni Medlnet. The old woman's
Buperwtltlon foresaw danger In this
visit. Hef veil before her face, her
gnarled old fingers held the fan with
which she had been fanning Sabron
She went out to the strangers. Down
by the well a group of girls In gar
ments of blue and yellow, with earthen
bottles on their heads, stood staring
at Beni Medlnet's unusual visitors.
“ Peace be with you. Patou Aunt,”
said the older of the Bedouins
"Are you a cousin or a brother that
you know my name?” asked the an
cient woman
“ Everyone knows the name of the
oldest woman In the Sahara.” said
Ilammet Abou. “and the victorious are
always brothers "
j
“ What do you want with me?” she
asked, thinking of the helplessness of
the village.
Ilammet Abou pointed to the hut.
“ You have a white captive In there
Is he alive?"
“ What Is that to you. son of a dog?"
"The mother of many sons Is wise.”
said Ilammet Abou portentously, "but
she does not know that this man car
ries the Evil Eye. His dog carries the
Evil Eye for his enemies. Your people
have gone to battle. Unless this man
Is cast out from your village, your
young men. your grandsons and your
sons will be destroyed."
The old woman regarded him calmly
"I do not fear It.” she said tran
quilly. “ We have had corn and oil In
plenty. He Is sacred.”
For the first time she looked at his
companion, tall and slender and evi
dently younger.
“ You favor the coward Franks." she
said In a high voice. "You have come
to fall upon us In our desolation.”
She was about to raise the peculiar
wall which would have summoned to
her all the women of the village. The
dogs of the place had already begun to
show their noses, and the villagers
were drawing near the people under
the palms Now the young man began
to speak swiftly In a language that she
did not understand, addressing his
comrade. The language was so curious
that the woman, with the cry arrested j
on her lips, stared at him. Pointing to ■
his companion. Ilammet Abou said:
"Fatou Ann!, this great lord kisses
your hand. He says that he wishes
he could speak your beautiful lan- j
guage. He does not come from the
enemy; he does not come from the
French. He comes from two women
of his people by whom the captive Is
beloved. He says that you are the
mother of sons snd grandsons, and
that you will deliver this man up Into
our hands In peace.”
The narrow fetid streets were be
ginning to fill with the figures of
women, their beautifully colored
robes fluttering In the light, and there
were curious eager children who came
running, naked save for the bangles
upon their arms and ankles.
Pointing to them, Ilammet Abou
said to the old sage:
"See, you are only women here, Julia's Eyea Were Fixed Upon the
Fatou Annl.
Your men are twenty
Limitlese Sands.
miles farther south. We have a cara
van of fifty men all armed, Fatou hat gleamed like a touch of snow
Annl. They camp Just there, at the upon the desert's face. Julia Red
edge of the oasis. They are waiting. mond, on a rug at her feet, and In her
We come In peace, old woman: we khaki rldlnghablt the color of the
come to take away the Evil Eye from sand, blended with the desert as
your door; but If you anger us and though part of It. She sat up aa she
rare against us, the dogs and women spoke.
of your town will fall upon you and
"How divine! See!” She pointed
destroy every breast among you.”
to the stretches of the Sahara before
She began to beat her palms to her. On every side they apread away
gether, murmuring:
as far as the eye could reach, suave,
“ Allah! Allah!”
mellow, black, undulating finally to
"Hush,” said the Bedouin fiercely, small hillocks with corrugated aides,
"take us to the captive, Fatou Annl.” ss a group of little sandhills rose soft
Fatou Annl did not stir.
She ly out of the sealike plain. "Look,
pulled aside the veil from her with Therese!”
8!owly, from ocher and gold the
ered face, so that her great 'eyes
looked out at the two men. She saw color changed; a faint wavellke blush
her predicament, but she was a subtle crept over the sands, which reddened,
Oriental. Victory had been In her paled, faded, warmed again, took
camp and In her village, her sons and depth and grew Intense like flame.
grandsons had never been vanquished
"The heart of a rose! N’est-ce pas,
Perhaps the dying man In the hut Therese?”
would bring the Evil Eye! He was
"I understand now what you mean,”
dying, anyway—he would not live said madame. The comtesse was not
twenty-four hours.
She knew this, a dreamer. Parisian to the tips of
for her ninety years of life had seen her fingers, elegant, fine, she had lived
many eyes close on the oasis under a conventional life. Therese had been
the hard blue skies.
taught to conceal her emotlona. She
To the taller of the two Bedouins had been taught that our feallngs
matter very little to any one but our-
she said In Arabic:
sclves
She had lieeri taught te go
lightly. In avoid serious things Her
great-grandmother had gone llglitly to
the sea (fold, exquisitely courteous Ull
the laat.
I ask your pardon If I Joetlad you In
the tumbrel." Ih» old comteeaa had i
said to her companion on the way to
the guillotine "The springe of Ihe cart
aro poor" and shu went up smiling.
In tie’ companionship of the Ameri
can girl, Therese de In Maine had
thrown off rentralnl If the Msrquiso
d'ICscllgiiac had felt Julla'n Influence,
Therein do la Maine, being near liar
own ago. echoed Julla'a vorv feeling
Except for their dragoman and their
servants, the two women were eloue
lu Ihe desert.
Hlulling at Julie. Mademn da la
Maine said
"I haven't been so far
from the Hue de la I’alx lu my life "
"How can you apeak of tha Rue de
la ralx, Therese?”
"Only to show you how completely I
have left It behind "
Julla'a eyes were fixed upon the I'm-
Itlesa sands, a sea where a faint line
lost Itself In the red weat and th* hork
ton shut from her sight averyUtiag
that she believed to be her Ilf*
•'This la the seventh day. Therese!"
"Already you are as browu aa an
Arab, Julia!”
"You as well, ma chere anile!”
“ Robert dors not like dark women,"
said the t'omlease de la Maine, and
rubbed ber check. "I must wear two
veils ”
"l-ook. Therese!"
Across the face of the deaert the
glow began to withdraw Its curtain.
The aanda suffused an Ineffnble hue, a
shell like pink took possession, and the
desert melted aud then grew colder It
waned before their eyea. withered llko
a tea rose
“ Like a roee!" Julia murmured,
"smell Its perfume!" She lifted her
head, drinking In with delight tbe
fragrance of the sands
"Ma chere Julia." gently protested
the comtesse. lining her head, "per
fume. Julia!" But alia breathed with
her friend, while a sweetly subtle. In
toxicating odor, a* of mllllous and mil
lions of roses, gathered, warmed, kept,
then scattered on the airs of heaven.
Intoxicating her.
To the left were the huddled tents of
tbelr attendants No sooner had tha
sun gone down than the Arabs com
menced to sing -a song that Julia bad
especially liked.
I-ov« Is Ilk« a iv isl perfurn«.
It com*«. It MCRpr*
Whsn It’s
It Intoilnl#«;
W h e n It*« ■ m sm ory. It tirtntfa ( « « r s .
love
!■ l i k e
ti a W e s t
b reath.
It comes am! It «••raj»«-».
Th* weird music filled the stlenr* of
the silent place It had th* *van*sr*nt
quality of tb* wind (hat brought (ha
breath of the sand flowers 'Ihe voices
of the Arabs, not unmusical, though
hoars* aud appealing, cried out their
love song, and then the music turned
to Invocation and to prayer.
The two women listened *llently as
the night fell, their figures sharply
outlined In the beautiful clarity of tha
eastern night.
Julia stood upright In her r
re
riding dress, she was as slender < a
boy. She remained looking toward tbe
horlson. Immovable, patient, a silent
watcher over the uncommunicative
waste.
"Perhapg,” she thought, "there Is
nothing really beyond that line, so fast
blotting Itself Into night and yet I
seem to see them com e!”
Madame de la Mnlne, In the door
of her tent. Immovable, her hands
clasped sround her knees, loek affec
tionately at the young girl before her.
Julia was a delight to her. She was
carried away by her. by her frank sim
plicity, and drawn tn her warm and
generous heart Madame de la Mnlne
had her own story. She wondered
whether ever, for any period of her
conventional life, she could have
thrown everything aside ar.d stood out
with the man she loved
Julia, standing before her. a dark
slim figure In the night- Isolated and
alone— recalled the figurehead of a
ship, Its fare toward heaven, pioneer
ing the open seas
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Julia watched, Indeed. On tho desert
there Is the brilliant day, a passionate
glow, and the nightfall They passed
the nights sometimes listening for a
cry that should hall an approaching
caravan, sometimes hearing the wild
cry of the hyenas, or of a passing vul
ture on his horrid flight Otherwise,
until the camp atlrred with the dawn
and tho early prayerrall sounded "Al
lah! Allah! Akhar!" Into the still
ness, they wore wrapped in complete
silence.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
Meaning of Yankee.
Tb«.re are several conflicting the
ories regarding the origin of the
word Yankee The moat probable Is
that It came from a corrupt pronun
ciation by the Indians of tbe word
English, or Ita French from Anglais.
The term Yankee was originally ap
plied only to the natives of the Now
England states but foreigners have
extended It to all th« natives of tho
United States and during the Ameri
can Civil war the southerners usod It
as a term of reproach for all the In
habitants of the North
Porto Rico Sugar Industry.
The Important part played by ths
sugar Industry in the material welfare
of Forto Rico Is shown by the flguree
of exports. Out of a total valuation of
exports amounting to $43.000,000 dur
ing the fiscal year ending Juno 30,
1914, sugar alone constituted over $30,1
000,000. This was tha lowest sum real
ized for sugar export* In five years
Under normal conditions sugar coni
stltutes two thirds tko total value of
•II exports.