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exports still exceeded the imports, there were serious signs of the 

 supply falling short before long. Taking the nations in order, 

 he discussed the question as regarded each of them ; and gave 

 statistics, both of the quantity of material imported and exported, 

 and of the value of the excess of one or the other. The following 

 average figures of the values will be found interesting. They arc 

 in millions of francs. 



Great Britain, 



France, 



Germany, 



Belgium, 



Holland, 



Denmark, 



Spain, 



Portugal, 



Italy, 



Switzerland, 



Greece, 



Bulgaria and Servia 



Austria-Hungary, 



Norway, 



Sweden, 



Finland, 



Russia, 



Roumania, . 



United Stated, 



Canada, 



British India, 



China and Japan, 



South Africa, 



Mexico, 



Argentina, . 



1193 



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He went on to point out how the excess in Austria-Hungary, 

 Russia, and the United States was much threatened, partly by 

 increase of population and partly by industrial development ; and 

 how the excess in Norway was menaced by the deterioration of 

 the forests ; so that there only remained three countries where 

 the forest resources were capable of helping in the future, viz., 

 Sweden, Finland and Canada, but that what they could produce 

 was quite insufficient, in presence of the increase in population 

 and the development of industrial work, not only in Europe and 



