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HUNGARY

total production of iron in Old Hungary, amounting to 2,165,905 tons, 394,960 tons came from New Hungary.

Value of the principal mineral and furnace products in thousands of kronen for 1915 : Gold, 6,211 ; silver, 635 ; iron ore, 11,191 ; pig iron, 33,676 ; cast iron, 1,974 ; coal, 17,552 ; and lignite, 92,183. The steel production of Hungary totalled in 1917, 692,429 metric tons (688,267 in 1915).

Commerce.

The special commerce of the old Kingdom of Hungary for live years was as ollows (in thousands of kronen) : —

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1912 1918

1914

1915

1910

Imports. Exports.

2,212,143 2,075,336

1,962,816 ! 1,904,776



1,829,549 1,757,882

2,537,318 2,047,393

3,197,002 2,368,082

Internal Communications.

In 1915 the total length of navigable rivers and canals in the former Kingdom of Hungary was 3,735 miles, of which 2,176 miles were navigable for steamers. In 1915, the public roads had a leDgth of 59,442 miles.

The following are railway statistics for the whole of the former Kingdom for 1915 :—

Length of lines: — State lines, 5,115 miles ; Companies' lines worked by the State, 6,409 miles; Companies' lines worked by companies, 2,200 miles; total length, 13,724 miles. Capital expenditure (1.000Z.), 204,363^. ; passengers carried (1,000's), 160,069 ; goods carried (1,000 tons), 67,903; receipts (1,000 kronen), 629,154 ; working expenses (1,000 kronen), 383,009. For the year 1914-15, the revenue from passenger traffic was 189,212,000 kronen and from goods traffic, 379,700,000 kronen.

Number of Hungarian post-offices, 6,794. In 1915 there were in the former Kingdom of Hungary 5,460 telegraph offices and 16,777 miles of telegraph line with 109,986 miles of wire ; number of messages, 15,470,000. In 1915 there were 2,573 telephone systems, with altogether 25,131 miles of line and 307,002 miles of wire, by which 221,665,000 conversations were held.

Money and Credit.

Notes of the Austro- Hungarian Bank circulating in Hungary on October 23, 1920, amounted to 11,982,646,810 kronen. The Hungarian Government in a deciee issued on March 18, 1920, ordered the stamping of Austro- Hungarian bank notes circulating in Hungarian territory. This order was issued in cimformity with a clause in the draft of the peace treaty and is effective witl) regard to all currency circulating in Hungary except the following: Notes of 1 and 2 kronen issued by the Au*tro-llnngaiian Hank ; notes of 5, 10, and 20 kronen issued by the Hungarian Postal .Savings Bank ; falsifications of 25 and 200 kronen notes of the AuHtro-Hungarian Bank punted by the Bolshevist Government ; and certain old notes which have been recalled by the Austro-Hungarian Bank, some of which are still iu circulation.