PARAGUAY

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amounted  to  only  $593.  Germany  is  her
largest  European  creditor,  last  year  taking
over  $1,198,686  of  her  products.
Paraguay  in  1913,  imported  $7,671,531  in
textiles,  foods,  hardware,  fancy  and  toilet
goods,  shoes,  hats,  liquors,  drugs,  clothes,  steel
and  iron,  of  which  amount  the  United  States
contributed  $181,367  as  against  Germany’s
$989,898  and  England’s  $963,418.
Commercial  travelers  are  supposed  to  pay
a  duty  proportionate  to  the  business  they  do.
As  a  matter  of  fact,  no  effort  is  made  to  collect
this  tax  and  the  local  merchant  generally  protects ­
  the  traveler  visiting  him  from  such  exploitation. ­

The  following  cities  should  be  visited:
Population

Asuncion  60,000
Villa  Rica  35,000
Concepcion  25,000
Encarnacion  10,000

Owing  to  its  situation  it  is  necessary  in  order
to  reach  Paraguay  to  go  by  train  or  boat  from
Buenos  Aires,  or  by  boat  from  Montevideo;