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GERMAN EMPIRE

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Employes

No. of Post Offices

No. of Boxes

No. of Tele- graph Offices

Reichspostgebiet Bavaria .... Wiirttemberg.

Total ill Empire.

167,877

14,914

6,704

31,076

2,390

997

92,306

12,073

4,518

19,041

2,363

746

189,495

34,463

108,897

22,150

The amount of business transacted by the post-offices is illustrated by the following statistics of articles transmitted by post, and the value of post-office orders, in marks, for the year 1897: —

Eeichspostgebiet B&varia

Letters Post Cards Printed matter Samples. Journals.

1,292,091,978

515,399j716

626,085j928

41,507,744

984,174,761

136,921,360

32,483,120

57,229,693

3,360,220

198,517,392

Total, includ- ing other de- spatches. I 3, 718,992,388) 454,275,743

Money sent \ \

(marks). i25,865,972,482 1,166,487,285

Wiirttemberg

Total

55,342,0921 1,484,355,430

21,039,304

30,731,889

1,316,926

49,137,301

568,922,140

714,047,510

46,184,890

1,231,829,454

171,079,812 1,410,036,763

4,344,347,943 29,442,496,530

The financial condition of the 1897-98 was as follows: —

united postal and telegraphic services in

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Reichspostgebiet

Bavaria

Wiirttemberg

Empire

Receipts. Expenditure

Surplus. .

324,783,298 290,956,745

29,337,071 25,673,901

13,719,477 11,444,174

367,839,846 328,074,820

33,826,553

3,663,170

2,275,303

39,765,026

The following are the telegraph statistics for the year 1897: —

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Telegraph

Lines, English

miles

74,013

10,128

3,372

Telegrapli

Wires, English

miles

Inland Telegrams

Foreign Telegrams

Reichspostgebiet.

Bavaria

Wiirttemberg

Total in Empire

295,742

30,800

9,892

25,693,469 2,249,248 1,207,659

29,150,376

9.823,895 584,769 201,052

87,513

336,434

10,609,716