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GREECE

Priucipal special imports auJ exports in 1911 : —

Imports

1 £ Exports

£

Agric. products .. Yarn and tissues. Raw minerals Forest products. Wrought metals, &c. Chemicals .... Living animals Fishery products. Animal products. Paper, books, &c. .

2,171,998 Agric. products

791,445 Raw minerals 1,071,818, Wines, &c. . 483,266 1 Oils (olive, &c.) 265,396 Animal products 322,540 Forest products 122,572 Wrought metals 304,844 Chemicals. ' 236.429 Fishery products 173,204 Sugar, &c. ,

2,918,093

931,127

704,380

363,644

211,670

157,829

31,453

42,891

35,697

5,935

The customs revenue amounted in 1911 to 1,051,582^. against 966,494Z.

in 1910.

The commercial treaty of 1886 provides for 'the most favoured nation' treatment between the United Kingdom and Greece, and the declaration of November, 1904, extends the scope of the treaty so as to include all British possessions, colonies, &c., which accord the ' most-favoured nation' treatment to Greece (that is all except India, Canada, the Cape, and New South Wales). The treaty is terminable July 25, 1910, and then after 12 months' notice.

The staple article of import from Greece into the United Kingdom (Board of Trade Returns) is currants the value of which amounted in 1911 to 1,716, 106Z. Other articles of import in 1911 were: — iron ore (including chrome), 205,462/. ; raisins, 70,423Z. ; sponges, 106,914/. ; wine, 443Z. ; olive oil, 21,240/. Of the exports from the United Kingdom to Greece in 1911, cotton goods and yarns were valued at 438,339/. ; woollens, worsteds and yarn, 191,356/. ; coal, 404,924/. ; iron, 82,315/. ; machinery, 67,443/.

The total trade between Greece and the United Kingdom for 5 years was (in thousands of pounds) as follows : —

—

1908 1909

1910

1911 1912

1

Imports from Greece to U.K. Exports to Greece from U.K.

£ 1 £ 1,942 1,600 1,706 1,481

£

2,286 1,545

£ ; £

2,273 2,118 1,705 2,568

Navigation and Shipping.

The merchant navy of Greece in 1912 had 811 sailing vessels of 145,284 tons, and 379 steamers of 690,573 tons. In 1910, 2,747 vessels of 3,763,583 tons entered and 3,005 of 4,099,636 tons cleared at the port of Piraeus, Avhich has some three-fifths of the total shipping of Greece. A considerable amount of the carrying trade of the Black Sea and the Eastern ports of the Mediter- ranean is under the Greek flag.

Internal Communications.

There are about 3,000 miles of roads. There is a canal across the Isthmus of Corinth (about 4 miles).

Railways were open for traffic in 1911 for a length of about 849 miles. The railway from Pirasus to the Turkish frontier (275 miles), vid Athens and Larissa, has been completed. It was always intended to connect the Greek with the Turkish railroads, but the Turkish Government long refused its consent. Greece was thus completely isolated by land from the rest of