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ITALY

111 1919 the vessels entered and cleared at Italian ports were as follows : —

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Entered Italian Ports

Cleared from Italian Ports

Vessels

Tons

Vessels

Tons

Italian Foreign

Total

03,397

4,792

16,164,409 8,929,230

03,350 4,794

15,175,931 8,967,556

98,189

'24,093,639

98,144 24,143,487

Vessels entering and clearing in 1919 at the principal Italian ports :

Port

Entered

Cleared

No.

Tonnage

No.

Tonnage

3.043

3,844,260 1,237,019 3,346,008 785,787 707,474 1,417,237 1,215,330

3,054 2,166 4,617 1,058 1,«80 2,494 1,568

3,S09,087

Leghorn Naples. Messina. Catania Palermo Venice.

2,153 4,629 ! 1,058 1,701 2,458 1,581

1,230,106 3,316,477 7S7.021 710,250 1,430,162 1,208,297

Internal Communications. I. Railways.

Length of State railways 8,761 miles (June 30, 1919) ; all the railway lines 9,741 miles. Receipts from State Railways in 1918-19, 1,767,251,733 lire; expenditure, 1,767,194,016 lire.

The Government proposes to electrify nearly 4,000 miles of State railways.

II. Posts and Telegraphs.

In the year 1919 (June 30) there were 11.228 post offices, traffic was as follows : —

The postal

1919

t^+^„oi, External and Internal. Transjt

Total

Newspapers, Printed matter, 4c.

Post Office orders, 4c

1,000 1,000

403,900 41,805

330,371 10,630

1,043,404 16,263

34,390 993

1,000

505,714

341,001

1,059,667

35,392

1,872,0S3 60,091

1,9*1,774

On June 30, 1919, the telegraph lines had a length of 34,733 miles, and the wires 236,557 miles. There were 9,905 telegraph offices, of which 7,205 were State offices and 2,700 railway offices. There were, in that year, 17,339,106 private telegrams sent inland ; and 860,450 private international telegrams.

The telephone service in 1918-19 had 105,832 subscribers. There were 380 urban systems; and 827 inter-urban systems with 18,053 miles of line and 239,354 miles of wire. Total number of conversations in the year, 7,612,432 (excluding international conversations). In 1907 the telephone service passed to the direct working of the State.