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RUSSIA : — FINLAND

The total number of steam engines was in 1910, 1,585 ; horse-power 100,153 ; 1,304 electric engines ; and 320 other engines.

Commerce.

The exterior trade of Finland appears as follows, in thousands of marks (francs) : —

1900

1910

1911

—

Imports

Exports

' Imports

Exports

Imports

Exports

from

to

i from

to

from

to

Russia

117,229

71,808

109,676

79,496

137,516

89,043

Sweden and

Norway.

19,239

9,057

20,099

12,665

21,580

14,339

Denmark.

19,236

8,610

20,858

9,952

23,071

11,653

Germany.

144,577

31,590

150,680

34,720

173,373

46,474

Gt. Britain

41,307

78,330

45,708

85,482

61,724

88,132

Spain

1,851

7,262

2,315

9,791

2,217

8,727

France

5,292

20,750

5,754

24,594

6,436

27,100

Various

18,390

28,747

10,990

33,442

18,587

34,082

Total

567,127

257,054

384,089

290,142

444,504

319,550

(14,685,100/.) (10,282,2007

) (15,363,560Z.) (11,605,680/.) (17,780,000/.)

(12,782,000/.)

The chief articles of export are : timber (167,037,000 marks in 1911, as against 91,200,000 in 1898), butter (34,028,000), paper, paper mass, and cardboard (58,169,000), iron and iron goods (23,114,000), textiles, leather, hides, tar, pitch and fish.

The chief imports were : cereals (101,010,000 marks), coffee and chichory (23,874,000), sugar (19,659,000), iron and ironware (23,113,000), cotton (14,001,000), cottons (7,795,000). machinery (23,667,000), chemicals, leather ware, tobacco, colours, oils, leather and hides.

Shipping and Navigation.

Number of vessels entered and cleared in 1911 : —

Entered

Cleared

No.

Tons

No.

Tons

Finnish. ..

Russian

Foreign. ..

C,016 1,031

2,552

1,065,099

188,413

1,436,963

5,970

999

2,540

1,038,417

181,166

1,428,702

Total.

0,599

2,690,475

9,509

2,648,285

The Finnish commercial navy numbered on January 1, 1912, 2,959 sailing vessels of 327,625 tons, and 487 steamers, 72,013 tons ; total, 3,446 vessels of 399,638 tons.

Internal Communications.

For internal communications Finland has a remarkable system of lakes connected with each other and with the Gulf of Finland by canals. The