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Country.

Consulate.

Firms.

Hands employed.

Chief Industries.

Notes.

Berlin

Dantzig

?

?

Dresden...

Dusseldorf

1

+ 4

+1,760

Frankfort

6

+ 124

Hamburg

5

+ 380

-

1

A number established

previous to 1880. Several in Bilesia, but

RUSSIA

facta cannot be ob- tained.

Mineral waters (1,000).

Wallpaper (230).

From Times of 23,9/03.

Two more just about

to be started.

No particulars of one.

No particulare avail- able for one firm. A number started by English have become German.

Leipzig

2

70

Mannheim

1

Small

Soup.

number.

Munich

Bavaria

3

+2,012

Cycles (+1,850).

Wurtemburg

1

200

Stettin

Stuttgart

200

Linoleum.

HOLLAND...

Amsterdam

Rotterdam

Com

ITALY

Brindisi ...

Florence...

Genoa

3

Consulate.

Firms.

Hands employed.

Chief Industries.

Notes.

Batoum

1

27

Helsingfors

Odessa

5

2,257

516

Cotton & jute (1304), agri-

cultural ma- chinery (800).

Also a steel works re- cently bought. Two flax mills (380) have recently stopped working. Also

one which has ceased to exist.

Riga

5

+3,090

Cotton (1,760),- woollen (1,330)

St. Petersburg

15

6,081

Cotton (3,438), metals (1410),

shipbuilding (750).

Taganrog

Warsaw ...

2

2,550

Woolspinning (2,500).

An older firm (150)

still at work.

Much

Britiab capital

invested locally.

ig

| Cotton (2,350) Some large older firms

still at work. Also one failed.

Also one failed.

-

A wood-silk factory is

being built.

SPAIN

Barcelona

Bilbao

6

3,340

3

+ 190

Cadiz

1

90

Corunna ...

7

+1,230

Margarine (740).

Number employed by

one firm not known.

Malaga

4

240

Seville

350

Pottery.

2

Milan

A few

very

small works.

A NOBWAY-SWEDEN

Naples

Palermo

Rome

Christiania

...

1

SWITZERLAND

Berne

Large

British lead smelting works es- tablished before 1860.

Geneva

Lausanne

Zurich

3

450

Sulphur (300).

1

1

4

1,860

Paper pulp (1,783).

Gothenburg

Stockholm

1

93

Several have recently

closed.

PORTUGAL

Lisbon

***

Oporto

***

ROUXANIA

Galats

13

3,123

1,680

Cork (1,560),

Pottery (600).

Cotton (1,200).

215

Also one liquidating and one in course of formation.

:

10

2

+ 270

Watches and jewellery.

Particulars not given

of one small firm.

1

25

Also one failed.

931

Embroidery (500).

Also

three British (995). embroidery

started before 1880.

partly Six

firms

UNITED STATES

OF AMERICA.

Baltimore

Boston

3

1,025

Tobacco (1,000).

1

75

Chicago ...

Galveston

New Orleans

?

?

May be others.

Information refused.

1

2

+ 150

TOTAL

+ 204

+46,004

Note: + signifles "more than.”

signifies "nil return."

Cotton (about 16,000 known).

No particulars of one.

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October, 1903.

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