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 COMMERCE — INTERNAL COMMUNICATIONS 1191

Commerce.

The value of goods which passed through the custom-houses of the King- dom of Poland was, in 1911, 1,941,536,000 francs ; exports represented the sum of 730,093,000 francs or 37'1 per cent, of the total ; and imports 1,211,443,000 francs. Approximately one-half of the goods imported were destined for the Kingdom itself, the rest passed in transit to Russia.

So far (ilirch, 1921 1, the only official li^ures for the trade of Poland are for the periods from November 1, 1919, to February I, 1920, and from April 1 to July 1, 1920, a3 follows :—

November 1,1919, to February 1, 1920

April 1 to July 31, 1920

Imports.

Kilos 156,571,692 1 8,017,089

Kilos 431,609.435

82. 3;

i Exclusive of food cargoes.

The chief imports for the second period were : Raw material, 302,471,337 kilos; articles of consumption, 86,739,111 kilos; manufactured goods, 40,078,316 kilos ; partly manufactured goods, 2,155,703 kilo*.

The principal raw materials imported were : Coal, 237,688,340 kilos ; salt, 28,197,347 kilos ; vegetable products, including cotton, 7,706,872 kilos; building materia 1. 7,844,734 kilos ; phosphorous manure, 7,060,767 kilos. The principal articles of consumption imported were corn and flour, 61,368,350 kilos.

Chief exports for the second period : Articles of consumption, 34,600 tons ; raw material, 22,736 tons ; manufactured goods, 15,799 tons ; partlv manufactured goods, 7,356 tons.

The principal articles of consumption exported were : Vegetables and root crops, 33,609,407 kilos. Principal raw materials : Timber. 10,746,354 kilos ; coal, 8,386,768 kilos ; oil. 2.746,354 kilos. Principal manufactured goods: Oil by products, 11,436,757 kilos; metal goods, 2,120,576 kilos : wood and basket-work manufactures. 1,320,443 kilos. Principal partly manufactured goods : Cement, 6,297,465 kilos ; and finished wood, 1,031,458 kilos. Three-fourths of the total of imported goods (302,247,343 kilos) came from Germany. From other countries Poland imported: U.S.A., 74,954,066 kilos ; Austria, 20,067,529 kilos: Czecho-Slovakia, 19,080,147 kilos ; Holland, 9,699,066 kilos ; England, 6,288,787 kilos. The exports duriug the second period were directed to : Germany, 46,474,810 kilos ; Austria, 14,826,639 kilos; England, 8,725,393 kilos; Czecho-Slovakia, 4,611,313 kilos.

Internal Communications.

On January, 1 1920, Poland proper had 30,070 miles of road. In 1919 there were 7,295 miles of railways open for traffic in the Republic. All are property of the State.

At the end of 1919 there were in Poland (excluding Prussian Poland) 1,005 Post and Telegraph offices, 1,537 PostOffices, 545 Telephone Exchanges with 29,423 apparatus, while the railway telegraphs had 618 offices. The length of telegraph lines was 51,645 miles, of telephone iines 7,674 miles, of telephone and telegraph lines, 4,347 miles. Of navigable waterways Poland has 1,876 miles, of which 298 miles are accessible for vessels of over 400 tons.