5 The imports generally include bullion and specie; and the exports, bullion and pecie and re-exports, but entries marked exclude bullion and specie.

6 Year 1916-17.

7 Gross tonnage.

8 Incomplete.

b

1 Including South Georgia, 1,000 square miles and population

2 The imports include bullion and specie; and the exports, bullion and specie and re-exports.

Eems marked exclude bullion and specie.

3 Including exports from S. Georgia.

4 Gross tonnage.

III.-GOLD PRODUCTION IN THE BRITISH EMI Yearly gold production of the six principal gold producing regions in the B for the ten years 1907-1916.

The following figures, showing the production and distribution of rubber during the last ten years, are taken from estimates by Messrs. M. H. Rickinson & Son :

The appended table of statistics, which have been published by the Lyons Silk Merchants' Union, show the estimated world's supply of raw silk in 1917. It is to be noted that the exports from the Far East are not known with certainty, and consequently the estimate of the crop for the year 1917 is provisional. Furthermore, in the complete absence of information on the production of Austria-Hungary and other countries of the Levant, the figures given for these countries are the same as those given for 1915.