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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[June 1, 1914. 



Vol. 50. 



JUNE 1. 1914. 



No. 3. 



TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Editorials: 



The Rubber Congress in Batavia 



Will the New Banking Act Help Crude Rubber Financ- 



ing.' 



The New Market Opened by the Panama Canal 



The Tire Brings Back the War Chariot 



How the Rubber Country Served The Colonel 



The Incidental Injustice of Justice 



Retaliating on the Pedestrian 



Boycotting Old John Barleycorn 



Rubber Works for the Human Interior 



Re Rubber Thieving 



Foreign Trade Opportunities — II — Ecuador 



llhislraleJ 



American Exports and Exporting Methods 



Hunting Guayule By Automobile 



1 Ihistralcd 



Rubber Cement and Some of Its Uses 



llhistrateii . 



What a Trade-Mark Right Is and How to Obtain It 



Fighting Fire on the Great Liners 



llhistratcl 



The Close Connection Between Cotton and Rubber 



Pv /-./ll-n //. Marble 



Cultivation of Rubber on the Malayan Peninsular 



Illustrated 



Ceylon Chamber of Commerce 



What the Rubber Chemists Are Doing 



The Origin of the Wool Boot 



Illustrated 



Rubber Arbitration Extracts 



Testing of Mechanical Rubber Goods 



The Rubber Trade in Akron 



Hx Our (Jorrcspotideut 



The Rubber Trade in Boston 



By Our Correspottdeiit 

 The Rubber Trade in Chicago 



Bv Our Correspondent 

 The Rubber Trade in Rhode Island 



Bv Our Correspondent 

 The Rubber Trade in Trenton ' 



Bv Our Correspondent 

 The Rubber Trade on the Pacific Coast 



By Our Correspondent 



A Distinguished Rubber Chemist 



[With PoitraU.l 



News of the American Rubber Trade 



Illustrated 



New Rubber Goods in the Market 



Illustrated 



New Machines and Appliances 



Illustrated 



India Rubber Goods in Commerce 



Editor's Book Table 



New Trade Publications 



Illustrated 



Interesting Letters from Our Readers 



The India Rubber Trade in Great Britain 



By Our Correspondent 



The London Rubber Exhibition 



Some Rubber Interests in Europe 



International Rubber Congress and Exhibition at Batavia.. 



Illustrated 



Some Rubber Planting Notes . 



Brazil Continues Preference to American Rubber Goods. . . . 



Rubber Notes from Dutch Guiana 



By Our Correspondent — Illustrated 



Notes from British Guiana 



By Our Correspondent 



Recent Patents Relating to Rubber 



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RUBBER ARRIVALS FROM THE CONGO. 



Atkii, 16. — lij the jttaiin.'r iilisabctlu iltc: 



Bunge & Co (Coinfina) kilos 



do (Belgika) 



'^" (Forminiere) 



(Grands Lacs) 



(Intertropicale) 



do 

 do 

 do 

 do 



Societe Coloniale Anv^rsoise (Comminiere) 



do (Kasai) 



Credit Colonial & Coinmercial (Anc. I.. & W. Van de 



Velde) (Crevelde) 



Comptoir t'olonial franco-beige (Charles Dethier) 



(American Congo Cy) 



W. Mallirckrodt & Co (.Miniaienne) 



\\'illaert Frcres 



M.\Y .5. — By tht; steamer Aiii-cts'<-ille: 



Runge & Co (Belgika) kilos 



Societe Coloniale .\nversoise (Lomami) 



do (H. C.) 



do (Comminiere) 



do (Intertropicale) 



Credit ("olonial & Commercial <.\nc. L. & \V. Van de 



Velde) (Kasai) 



do (Comfina) 



do (Crevelde) 



Comptoir Colonial franco-beige (Charles Dethier) 



(.\merican Congo Cy) 



9,000 

 2,100 

 2,600 

 7,000 

 4,200 

 1,600 

 14,800 

 19,900 



6,300 



6,800 

 4,500 

 5,500 



1,420 



2,240 



87 



4,231 



13,460 



61,000 



19,600 



3,200 



84,300' 



500 105,738. 



Plant dtion Rubber from the Far East. 



Exports of Ceylon Grown Rubber. 



[From January 1 to .\pril 20, 1913 and 1914. Compiled 

 Chamber of Commerce.] 



1913. 



To Great Britain pounds 3.501,382 



To United States .- 2,270,021 



322.696 



176,617 



75.502 



.- 64,862 



25,515 



22,460 



992 



To Belgium 



To Australia 



To Japan 



To Germany ^. 



To .\ustria 



To Italy 



To Holland 



To Russia 



To France 



To Straits Settlements 



To India 



by the Ceylon. 



1914. 



5.118.201 



2.119.774 



1, 786.930- 



34,041 



128.899- 



644,102 



98.482 



90.483 



35.852 



500 



10,057.264- 



(.Same period, 1912, 3.737,826: same period, 1911, 1,509,408 pounds.) 

 The e.xport tigures of rubber for 1914 given in the above table include- 

 tlie imports re-exported, viz.; 1,221,947 pounds. To arrive at the approxi- 

 mate quantity of Ceylon rubber exported for 1914 to date, deduct the 

 tinantity from the total exports. In previous years the exports of Ceylon 

 rubber only were given. 



Total 6,460.047 



ToT.\L Exports from M.\lava. 



(From January 1 to dates named. Reported by Barlow & Co.. Singapore. 



These figures include the production of the Federated Malay 



States, but not of Ceylon.) 



Port Swet- 

 Singapore. Malacca. Penanc, tenham. 

 To — April 14. March 31. Feb. 28. March 31. Total. 



Great Britsm. .pounds 5,943,529 



Continent 586,246 



Japan 265.344 



Ceylon 96.374 



United States 2,606.865 



.\u5tralia 20,342 



1.267,175 



Total, 1914.. 



Tojal, 1913.. 



Total, 1912.. 



Total, 1911.. 



9,518.700 

 7,062,458 

 3.727.218 

 1,676,849 



1,267,175 



3,717,200 7,599,973 22.103.048 



2,110,666 7.604.588 16.777.712 



847.722 3,945,893 8.520.833 



330.267 8,458.123 10,465,239- 



FRZNCH RUBBER STATISTICS FOE 1913. 



Statistics show that the total of French rubber ii-nports tor 

 1913 was 17,440 tons, distributed as follows: Havre. 8.228 tons; 

 Paris, 2,634 tons; Bordeaux, 2,538 tons; Boulogne, 934 tonsr 

 Marseilles, 407 tons; Dunkirk, 168 tons; various ports. 2.531 

 tons. Exports were 10,687 tons. 



