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4,942,000 acres: and In autonomous Ruthenia (Podkurpatska Rus) 1,630,860 acres. The annual yield is estimated at 565,024,000 cnbic feet of timber.

The mineral production of the Czechoslovak Republic comprises both soft and hard coal (chief coal6elds Brux-K >motan Teplitz and Falkeuau), iron, graphite, garnets. Gold, silver, copper and lead are found in the Carpathians, and rocksalt in Eastern Slovakia and Ruthenia. Coal pro- duction in 1919, 16,980,000 tons of lignite and 10,405,000 tons of hard coal. In 1919 tlieie were 366 coal mines, employing 110,233 persons.

The number of factories in 1920 was 8,833. Of these 2,000 were textile mills, 1,755 glass works and precious stone factories, 1,358 for food produc- tion, 674 for furniture and bent wood manufacture, 595 machine factories, 592 for metal manufacture, 297 paj>er mills, 458 chemical factories. Articles jiro'lncedby Czecho-slovak industries include glass of all kinds, agricultural machines, electro-technical goods, paper, furniture, gloves and other leather goods, textiles, &c.

Commerce. — for 1919 the imports amounted to 6,555,418,562 kronen and the exports to 5,323,621,196 kronen.

Principal articles of import and export in 1919 : —

Imports. Kronen.

Exports.

Krontn.

Cereals 1,443.890,121 Cottons. . 917.841.76.5 Woollens. . .441 Silk .... 123,610.095 Leather. 229,699,598

Sugar

Fruit

Timber

Glass

Iron ....

1,571,426,437 5*4,205,810 614,306,116 370,267,850 314,848,137

Exports and imports in 1919 were distributed among the principal countries at, follows: —

Country of

Country of

origin or

Imports

bpotta

orijrin or

Imports

Ex porta

destination

Kronen

destination

Kronen

Kronen

Kronen

Albania.

—

3,449.542

Spain.

48,: 7

1,4'

Belgium

306,512,773

Sweden

77.752,475

28,406,228

Bulgaria

■9,502

93,7

Switzerland.

531,707,412

79,089,039

Denmark

78,095 686

Turkey in

8,997,058

Franco

236,268,456

599,033.570

Europe

6 601/?1

Hambirg

4,605.938

Ukraine

7,807,163

9,848,370

Italy

(583,704.016

211..:

Great Britain

32S,440,55<

238,145,324

Jiigo-Slavia.

168,47

24.3.4.

British India

2,538,445

15,884,428

Hungary

168,827,890

-13,319

Russia

—

3,143,668

Holland

263. o33,487

•3,685

■.

10,147,595

2,075,255

Germany

789,

S00.- '

Argentina.

51,158,253

601.9S0

Norway

26,341',67'J

302.

Canada.

192,018

1,490,647

rietuscite Dis-

United States

1,862,612,646

• -3.794

trict of Silesia

7o,698

34, •.'•

Rest of

Poland

1 "5.481

451,132,068

America

75,007,01 S

3.797.13S

Austria.

676.4

-

Australia

3.383,133

31,146

Rouin&nia European

Ru-.-ia

24,521,565


 * 9,076

Othercountries

3,687,179

-.>,868

147,627

89,4'

Total.

6.555,41S,562

-1,106