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 SHIPPING AND COMMUNICATIONS In 1919 the chief imports and exports were as follows : —

1219

Classes.

Live stock .... A Uinentary a.umal product ■

■lentary animal product*. rticles thereof

Pars

Wool and hair,an>l manufacture* I Animal waste and varioua animal sub- stances

Silk and manufacta- Cereals and cereal by-products Vegetables, flours, seeds, and )•!.-. VejietaVile oils ....

. Colonial fruits and food-dun's Sugar and manufactures thereof. Trees, timber, and manufactures thereof | e fibres, and manufactures

tnereof

Ready-made clothes ....

Paper

Celluloid ......

Rubber, gutta-percha, vegetable juices !

Mineral water and salt.

Earth, stones, and products thereof

Glass

Petroleum and bitumen

i fact ores thereof, and mineral products ....

Machine-

Vehicles

Shore boats

Clocks and watches .... Musical instruments ....

Toys

Chemical products and drugs

Perfumery

Paints and varnish .... Explosives

Total

i.<.:4i

10,101

•J. 7-4

7,112

11

1,810

i.ois

26.191

1,3»3

4

24

S

18

6,253

150

009

,347

■ ■ 19,9»,«4»

187,3- 93.3 =

Kim m

106,31!

15.1 :

4/63.77"

3

6S1

656

10

4!2

7 44. "14

2,5<16

- 15.317.037

81,322

O^OM Ml 90,158 M 101

«J, 188,778

3S4.047

1 16,000

Total trade between Rumania and United Kingdom for five years (Board of Trade Returns) : —

1916

1917

Imports from Rumania to U. Kingdom. Exports to Rumania from U. Kingdom.

45,522 701,04©!

r ..'*".0«: 7,121,;-

Shipping and Communications.

In 1919 the merchant navy of Rumania consisted ot 158 vessels of 71,158 tons, including 17 steamers of 29,441 tons. Xumber of vessels entering Rumanian ports in 1919 was 10,546 of 2,991,095 tons.

The European Commission of the Danube, called into being in 1856, consisted before the war of * delegates, one representing each of the following powers : Austria-Hungary, France. Germany, Great Britain, Italy, Rumania, Russia, *nd Turkey. By article 340 of the