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 SHIPPING AND NAVIGATION — COMMUNICATIONS 1343

Imports from iaic Turkey lslb

1010 Export* to ™ 19 Turkey

1918

T

1919

£ Valonia. 3,300 Ra-sins ... — Dried fruit 200,000 Wool

Gum. . 6,036 Tobacco ... —

£ 151,940 Coal, coke.

2,132,03i} Cotton yarn.

234,004 Cottons.

344,638 Woollens.

48,357 Iron goods

1,047,791 Machinery

£ 4,220

3.495 3,045

£

404

6.S17.602

585,101

73,235

The value of the commercial intercourse between the whole of the Turkish Empire in Europe and Asia and Great Britain during the last rive years, according to the Board of Trade Keturns, is shown in the following table :—

Imports into U. K. from Turkey .....

Exports of British produce to Turkey

£ 857,216

£ 467,566

426,5671 921,9931 1,811,784 j 22,109,713 i 31,311,578

i Exported to ports and places in territory formerly Turkish, but now occupied by other Powers.

Shipping and Navigation.

The mercantile nary of the Turkish Empire in 1911 consisted of 120 steamers of 66,878 tons, and 963 sailing vessels of 205,641 tons.

Internal Communications.

The length of railway line in European and Asiatic Turkey on November 1, 1914, not including the most recently opened sections of the Bagdad Railway, was as follows : —

Miles opea Smyrna-Aidin. . . 320 Konia-Eregli-Persian Gulf 1. 125 Mersina-Adana ... 42 Beirut-Damaseus-Mzerib. 153 Rayak-Aleppo 1. . . 204 Tripoli- Horns ... 63 Damascus-Medina. . 812 Jatfa- Jerusalem. .54

Haifa-Deraa. . 105

Total Asiatic. . . 2,865

1 These railways hare a kilometric guarantee. Ths guarantees paid by the Debt Council amounted to £T5-28,918 in 1911; £T420,141 in 1912; £T341,388 m 1918 ; £T23S,042 in 1914.

The Bagdad Railway was intended to extend the Anatolian line from Konia to Adana, Mosul, Bagdad, and Basra with many branch lines. It

Miles open

Salonica-Monastir 1

. 136

Constantinople-Salonica 1 Oriental Railways

317

593

Total European

1,046

Asiatic —

Haidar- Pasha- Angora 1

353

E.ski-Shehir-Konia '.

283

Mudania-Brussa.

25

Smyrna-Cassaba l.

165

Alasheir-Anon-Karahissar

156