_France_.--This country exported common soap during 1906 to the value of L556,000, or L8,000 more than in 1905. The chief centre of the soap industry is Marseilles, which, with about fifty soap factories, produces annually some 3,000,000 cwts. _Germany_ imported in 1905 soap and perfumery to the value of L3,032, that exported amounting to L15,364. In Saxony there are eighty soap factories. _Russia._--There are fifty large soap factories in Russia, the annual output from which is about 2,250,000 cwt. _Roumania._--This country possesses about 230 small and eighteen large soap and candle factories, most of which produce only common soap, there being only one firm--in Bucharest--which makes milled soaps. _Denmark._--In this country there are some 200 small soap factories. _Australia._--According to a Board of Trade report, there were ninety-eight soap and candle factories in Australia in 1905, employing 1,568 hands, and producing 495,036 cwt. of soap. _Queensland._--In 1905 this country contained twenty-one soap and candle works, in which 142 hands were employed, and having an output valued at L86,324. _Hong-Kong._--There are about twenty-four soap factories on this island. _Japan._--A Swiss consular report states that in Japan there are now some fifty soap works, producing about 15,000,000 tablets monthly. _Fiji Islands._--These possess only one soap factory, the output from which is 9 cwt. daily. The following table, compiled from various consular and other official returns, shows the quantity and value of soap imported into different countries and places during the years 1905-7:--