10 DECEMBER 1904, Page 3

The Board of Trade Returns continue to show themselves wholly

inconsiderate of Mr. Chamberlain's most cherished feelings. With a bluntness which is positively indecent, month after month they give a flat denial to his declarations that our industries are ruined and our trade perishing. The November Returns show expansion both in imports and exports. The figures for the month are these:—

Nov., 1904. Increase over 1903.

Imports £50,670,846 £1,947,255 Exports of British Goods 26,113,288 3,075,495 Nearly the whole of the increase in exports of British goods —namely, 22,610,244—is in manufactured articles, the chief of these being cotton, wool, new ships, and chemicals. Raw materials exported show an increase of a quarter of a million.