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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.
