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Haldeman-Julius</p> + + <h1>A Book of European<br>Statistics</h1> + +<p class="ph2">Leo Markun</p> + +<p class="ph3">HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATIONS</p> +<p class="ph3">GIRARD, KANSAS</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_2">[Pg 2]</span></p> + +<p class="ph4">Copyright, 1929,</p> +<p class="ph4">Haldeman-Julius Company</p> + +<p class="ph4">PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_3">[Pg 3]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="CONTENTS"> + CONTENTS + </h2> +</div> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdc">Page</td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Introduction</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#INTRODUCTION">5</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">The Continent</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#THE_CONTINENT">6</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">High Mountains of Europe</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#HIGH_MOUNTAINS_OF_EUROPE">7</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Great Rivers of Europe</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#GREAT_RIVERS_OF_EUROPE">7</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">European Lakes</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#EUROPEAN_LAKES">8</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">European Canals</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#EUROPEAN_CANALS">8</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Area and Population by <ins title="Original has 'Counties'" id="Countries">Countries</ins></td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#AREA_AND_POPULATION_BY_COUNTRIES">9</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">American Citizens in Europe</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#AMERICAN_CITIZENS_IN_EUROPE">14</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Automobiles</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#AUTOMOBILES">15</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Some Agricultural Statistics</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#SOME_AGRICULTURAL_STATISTICS">16</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Railroads</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#RAILROADS">21</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Mineral Production</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#MINERAL_PRODUCTION">22</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Wine Production</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#WINE_PRODUCTION">24</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">International Commerce</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#INTERNATIONAL_COMMERCE">25</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Trade with the United States</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#TRADE_WITH_THE_UNITED_STATES">26</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Ships</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#SHIPS">28</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Foreign Exchange</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#FOREIGN_EXCHANGE">29</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Armies</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#ARMIES">29</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Telephones</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#TELEPHONES">31</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Schools</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#SCHOOLS">31</a></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Budgets</td> +<td class="tdc"><a href="#BUDGETS">32</a></td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a id="Page_4"></a><a id="Page_5"></a>[Pg 5]</span></p> + + <p class="halftitle">A BOOK OF EUROPEAN STATISTICS</p> +</div> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="INTRODUCTION"> + INTRODUCTION + </h2> +</div> + +<p>In the introduction to Little Blue Book No. +1460, <i>A Book of American Statistics</i>, I have +called attention to a few of the ways in which +numerical expressions of facts may be misleading, +especially if the person consulting a statistical +table forgets that a census or a measurement +must be taken at a definite time. In general, +though, the population and the industries +of Europe are somewhat more inclined to <ins title="Original has 'stablity'" id="stability">stability</ins> +than are those of the United States and +other American countries. It may be said, too, +that most European countries are in a position +to learn with considerable accuracy the number +of people they contain and other information +of a definite sort. There are a few vague or +disputed boundaries, and, especially in the +southeast, there are groups of people who flee +from the schoolmaster and the census taker; +but these are exceptional cases.</p> + +<p>The statistical matter published by the governmental +agencies of the United Kingdom, France, +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_6">[Pg 6]</span>or Germany is fully as trustworthy as that +which comes from the official printing office +at Washington. Indeed, the European countries +have fuller information than the United States +about some important phenomena of society.</p> + +<p>Fuller statistics may be found in various +yearbooks and almanacs devoted to special interests +or countries, as well as in those of a +general nature. An inexpensive source of information +is the <i>Almanac and Book of Facts</i> +published by the New York World. <i>A Political +Handbook of the World</i>, published by the +Yale and Harvard University Presses, is devoted +largely to party politics and governmental facts. +<i>The Statesman’s Year Book</i> and the <i>Europa +Year Book</i> contain statistical matter of all sorts.</p> + +<p>Current information about Europe appears +with fullness in few American newspapers. Perhaps +the New York <i>Times</i> should be especially +mentioned in this connection. However, several +English newspapers that are to be found in +large public libraries are naturally more useful +for European statistics.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="THE_CONTINENT"> + THE CONTINENT + </h2> +</div> + +<p>Europe has an area of about 3,789,000 square +miles. The population is estimated at 480,000,000. +The highest point in Europe is Mt. Elbrus, +in the Caucasus Mountains, with a height +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_7">[Pg 7]</span>of 18,465 feet, and the lowest is the Caspian +Sea, in Russia, 86 feet below sea level. The +mean approximate height of Europe is 980 feet, +as compared with 1300 feet in each of the two +Americas and 1600 feet in Africa and in Asia.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="HIGH_MOUNTAINS_OF_EUROPE"> + HIGH MOUNTAINS OF EUROPE + </h2> +</div> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdc">Country</td> +<td class="tdr">Height<br>in feet</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Elbrus</td> +<td class="tdc">Russia</td> +<td class="tdr">18,465<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Kasbek</td> +<td class="tdc">Russia</td> +<td class="tdr">16,346<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Mont Blanc</td> +<td class="tdc">France</td> +<td class="tdr">15,781<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Monte Rosa</td> +<td class="tdc">Italy</td> +<td class="tdr">15,217<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Olympus</td> +<td class="tdc">Greece</td> +<td class="tdr">9,745<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Ben Nevis</td> +<td class="tdc">Scotland</td> +<td class="tdr">4,368<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Matterhorn, or<br><span style="margin-left: 1.0em;">Mont Cervin</span></td> +<td class="tdc">Switzerland-Italy</td> +<td class="tdr">14,661</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Finsteraarhorn</td> +<td class="tdc">Switzerland</td> +<td class="tdr">14,022</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_8">[Pg 8]</span> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="GREAT_RIVERS_OF_EUROPE"> + GREAT RIVERS OF EUROPE + </h2> +</div> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdc">Flows<br>into the</td> +<td class="tdc">Length<br>miles</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Volga</td> +<td class="tdc">Caspian Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">2,300</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Danube</td> +<td class="tdc">Black Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">1,725</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Ural</td> +<td class="tdc">Caspian Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">1,400</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Dnieper</td> +<td class="tdc">Black Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">1,400</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Don</td> +<td class="tdc">Gulf of Taganrog</td> +<td class="tdr">1,200</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Rhine</td> +<td class="tdc">North Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">700</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Elbe</td> +<td class="tdc">North Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">700</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Loire</td> +<td class="tdc">Bay of Biscay</td> +<td class="tdr">650</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Tagus</td> +<td class="tdc">Atlantic Ocean</td> +<td class="tdr">550</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Oder</td> +<td class="tdc">Baltic Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">550</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Guadana</td> +<td class="tdc">Mediterranean Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">515</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Rhone</td> +<td class="tdc">Gulf of Lyons</td> +<td class="tdr">500<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Seine</td> +<td class="tdc">English Channel</td> +<td class="tdr">475<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Po</td> +<td class="tdc">Adriatic Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">420<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Ebro</td> +<td class="tdc">Mediterranean Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">400<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Garonne</td> +<td class="tdc">Bay of Biscay</td> +<td class="tdr">385<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Thames</td> +<td class="tdc">North Sea</td> +<td class="tdr">215<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Drave</td> +<td class="tdc">Danube</td> +<td class="tdr">450<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Marne</td> +<td class="tdc">Seine</td> +<td class="tdr">310</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="EUROPEAN_LAKES"> + EUROPEAN LAKES + </h2> +</div> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdr">Square<br>miles</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Ladoga</td> +<td class="tdr">7200</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Wener</td> +<td class="tdr">2400</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Wetter</td> +<td class="tdr">936<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Balaton</td> +<td class="tdr">420<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Geneva</td> +<td class="tdr">224<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Constance</td> +<td class="tdr">208<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Garda</td> +<td class="tdr">136<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Neuchatel</td> +<td class="tdr">90<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Maggiore</td> +<td class="tdr">78<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Como</td> +<td class="tdr">56<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Lucerne</td> +<td class="tdr">40<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Zurich</td> +<td class="tdr">37</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="EUROPEAN_CANALS"> + EUROPEAN CANALS + </h2> +</div> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"></td> +<td class="tdr">Miles<br>long</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Berlin-Stettin (also known as<br><span style="margin-left: 1.0em;">Hohenzollern)</span></td> +<td class="tdr">136<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Kiel (or Kaiser Wilhelm)</td> +<td class="tdr">61<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Marseilles-Rhone</td> +<td class="tdr">60<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Elbe-Trave</td> +<td class="tdr">41<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Manchester-Liverpool</td> +<td class="tdr">35</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="AREA_AND_POPULATION_BY_COUNTRIES"> + AREA AND POPULATION BY COUNTRIES + </h2> +</div> + +<p>Albania is a Balkan kingdom with an estimated +area of 17,374 square miles and population +of 840,000.</p> + +<p>Andorra is a semi-independent republic in the +Pyrenees with an area of 191 square miles and +a population of between 5000 and 6000.</p> + +<p>Austria is a republic with an area of 32,369 +square miles and a population (1923) of 6,526,000. +The Austro-Hungarian Empire before +the World War had an area of 261,259 square +miles.</p> + +<p>Belgium is a kingdom with an area of 11,752 +square miles and a population of about 7,875,000.</p> + +<p>Bulgaria is a kingdom in the Balkans with +an area of 39,814 square miles and a population +of 5,483,000.</p> + +<p>The republic of Czecho-Slovakia, in central +Europe, has an area of 51,207 square miles and +a population officially estimated at about 14,356,000.</p> + +<p>The free city of Danzig, under the protection +of the League of Nations, has an area of 754 +square miles and a population (1924) of 386,000, +mostly German.</p> + +<p>The kingdom of Denmark has an area of +15,568 square miles and a population of 3,343,000 +(1925). The Faroe Islands, which belong +to Denmark, have an area of 540 square miles +and a population of 21,000.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</span></p> + +<p>The republic of Estonia has an area of about +18,000 square miles and a population of about +1,115,000.</p> + +<p>The republic of Finland has an area of 149,641 +square miles and a population estimated at +3,526,000.</p> + +<p>The republic of France has an area of 212,659 +square miles and a population (1926) of +40,743,851. (The island of Corsica included.) +The grand total of land under the direct control +of France, including colonies in America, Asia, +Africa and Oceania is 5,870,460 square miles, +with a population of over a hundred million.</p> + +<p>The republic of Germany has a land area of +181,714 square miles. This includes the Saar +district, not at the moment under German control. +The population in 1925 was 63,118,000.</p> + +<p>The republic of Greece, in the Balkans, has +an area of 49,022 square miles with a population +which was 5,447,000 in 1920 and estimated in +1928 (<i>A Political Handbook of the World</i>) at +about seven millions.</p> + +<p>The kingdom or regency of Hungary has an +area which is not entirely definite, for some +of the boundaries are yet to be determined, but +it may be stated as 35,875 square miles. The +population is close to nine millions (8,160,000 +in 1924). Before the World War Hungary had +an area of 109,216 square miles; or, with Croatia +and Slavonia, of 125,641 square miles.</p> + +<p>The kingdom of Italy has an area of 119,714 +square miles, with a population of 40,548,000. +The total area of the Italian Empire is 990,658 +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</span>square miles, with a population of some 43 +millions. (Some of the colonial boundaries are +rather vague.)</p> + +<p>The kingdom of Jugoslavia or Yugoslavia, +also known more formally as the kingdom of +the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, has an area of +96,134 square miles, with a population of 12,017,000 +in 1921. The country contains about +half a million each of Germans, Albanians, and +Hungarians.</p> + +<p>The republic of Latvia, which is south of Estonia, +has an area of about 25,000 square miles +and a population of 1,870,000.</p> + +<p>The principality of Liechtenstein, formerly +dependent on Austria and now in the Swiss +customs union, has an area of 65 square miles +and a population of about 12,000.</p> + +<p>The republic of Lithuania, which is one of +the Baltic States, still has aspirations for the +recovery of the city and district of Vilna, seized +from it by Poland. Without this, it has an area +of about 21,800 square miles and a population +of about 2,228,000.</p> + +<p>The grand duchy of Luxemburg, which is in +a customs union with Belgium, has an area of +999 square miles and a population of 269,000.</p> + +<p>The principality of Monaco, on the Mediterranean, +is all but surrounded by French territory. +It has an area of 8 square miles, and its +population in 1923 was 22,000.</p> + +<p>The kingdom of the Netherlands, popularly +referred to as Holland, has an area of 12,593 +square miles. The official estimate of population +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</span>at the beginning of 1926 was 7,416,418. +The Dutch Empire, including a large district in +the East Indies, has an area of 801,000 square +miles and a population of about 57 millions.</p> + +<p>The kingdom of Norway, which occupies the +western part of the Scandinavian Peninsula, +has an area of 124,964 square miles and a population +which was 2,649,000 in 1920, and is +about 2,900,000 in 1929.</p> + +<p>The republic of Poland has an area of some +149,140 square miles, but part of the boundaries, +especially with Lithuania, are at present indefinite. +The population is about 30,000,000.</p> + +<p>The republic of Portugal has an area, including +the Azores and Madeira, of 35,490 square +miles and a population of 6,033,000 (1920). The +colonies bring up the area to nearly a million +square miles.</p> + +<p>The temporal sovereignty of the see of Rome +has recently been extended somewhat, but the +population of persons other than church officials, +not available at this writing, is quite +small. The popes were worldly rulers over +some 3,000,000 people living in a district of +16,000 square miles until most of their dominions +were absorbed by the kingdom of Italy in +the nineteenth century.</p> + +<p>The kingdom of Roumania, or Rumania, +which is sometimes classed with the Balkan +countries, has an area of 122,282, of which more +than half was gained by the peace treaties ending +the World War. The population is about +17,500,000.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</span></p> + +<p>The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, generally +known as Russia, is a Eurasian country +with a total area of 8,187,253 square miles and +a total population of 146,304,000. The Russian +Empire had an area of 8,764,586 square miles +and a population (1915) of 182,183,000, of which +131,797,000 was European.</p> + +<p>The republic of San Marino, surrounded by +Italian territory, has an area of 38 square miles +and a population of about 13,000.</p> + +<p>The kingdom of Spain, which occupies the +Iberian Peninsula with Portugal, has an area +of 190,050 square miles. Including the Balearic +and Canary Islands, the area is 194,783 +square miles. The estimated population at the +beginning of 1926, these islands included, was +22,128,000.</p> + +<p>The Scandinavian kingdom of Sweden has a +land area of 173,105 square miles and a population +of over six millions (6,053,562 in 1923).</p> + +<p>The republican confederation of Switzerland +has an area of 15,940 square miles and is inhabited +by about four million people (3,886,000 +in 1920).</p> + +<p>The Eurasian republic of Turkey has an area +of about 280,000 square miles, but some of the +boundaries are in dispute. The European area +consists of 8,819 square miles, but it includes +the city of Constantinople, with a population of +about 700,000. The total population of the republic +is about 13,650,000. The Turkish Empire +before the World War had an area of over +710,000 square miles.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</span></p> + +<p>The United Kingdom of Great <ins title="Original has 'Britan'" id="Britain">Britain</ins> and Ireland +has an area of 84,284 square miles, of +which England has 50,874, Wales has 7,466, +Scotland has 30,405, Northern Ireland or Ulster +has 5,237, the Isle of Man has 227, and the +Channel Islands have 75. The 1921 census +showed a population of 36,678,000 in England, +2,207,000 in Wales, 4,882,000 in Scotland, 60,238 +in the Isle of Man, and 89,614 in the Channel +Islands. Northern Ireland had a population +of 1,256,000 according to a census taken in +1926. The Irish Free State then had 2,973,000 +inhabitants. Its area is 26,592 square miles. +Gibraltar, with a area of 2 square miles, has +a population of about 18,000. Malta, containing +122 square miles, is occupied by about 225,000 +people; and Cyprus has some 325,000 inhabitants +in an area of 3,584 square miles.</p> + +<p>The British Empire as a whole, including +mandates but not semi-dependencies and +spheres of influence, has an area of about 13,379,000 +square miles and a population of some +450,000,000 people, in all parts of the world. It +makes up, in area and population, about a +quarter of the world: the land surface of the +globe, not all of it habitable, is 57,510,000 square +miles.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="AMERICAN_CITIZENS_IN_EUROPE"> + AMERICAN <ins title="Original has 'CITIES'" id="CITIZENS">CITIZENS</ins> IN EUROPE + </h2> +</div> + +<p>According to an investigation conducted by +the United States Department of State, 1927-1929, +the number of American citizens living +permanently or semi-permanently in Europe +amounts to 77,063. Of these, Austria contains +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</span>979; there are 857 in Belgium; the number living +in Great Britain and Northern Ireland is +11,717; there are 62 in Bulgaria; Czecho-Slovakia +contains 2,600; the free city of Danzig +has 18; there are 406 in Denmark; 18 live in +Estonia; 236 are in Finland: France has the +largest number or 25,860. There are 3,027 in +Germany; 11 in Gibraltar; 3,146 in Greece; +twelve hundred in Hungary; 1,193 in the Irish +Free State; ten thousand in Italy. Latvia was +listed as having 86; Lithuania, 750; Malta, 26; +the Netherlands, 241; Norway, six hundred; +Poland, six thousand; Portugal, including Madeira +and the Azores, 479; Roumania, two thousand; +Russia, 150—this is probably somewhat +less than the real number; Jugoslavia, 2,500; +Spain, including the Canary Islands, 805; +Sweden, 658; and Switzerland, 1,438.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="AUTOMOBILES"> + AUTOMOBILES + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The following figures are from a motor census +made by the Overseas Edition of <i>The American +Automobile</i>. The total number of passenger +cars, motor trucks, and motor busses operated +in the leading countries of Europe at the +beginning of 1929 was:</p> + +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</span> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Great Britain</td> +<td class="tdr">1,373,109<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">France</td> +<td class="tdr">1,108,900<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Germany</td> +<td class="tdr">545,100<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Italy</td> +<td class="tdr">172,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Spain</td> +<td class="tdr">156,501<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Sweden</td> +<td class="tdr">126,898<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Belgium</td> +<td class="tdr">108,225<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Denmark</td> +<td class="tdr">88,898<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Netherlands</td> +<td class="tdr">85,500<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Switzerland</td> +<td class="tdr">61,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Czecho-Slovakia</td> +<td class="tdr">49,151<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Irish Free State</td> +<td class="tdr">40,198<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Norway</td> +<td class="tdr">36,027<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Finland</td> +<td class="tdr">32,438<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Roumania</td> +<td class="tdr">29,200<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Austria</td> +<td class="tdr">28,230<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Poland</td> +<td class="tdr">27,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Portugal</td> +<td class="tdr">25,261</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>Aside from automobiles assembled in Europe +of American parts, the production of passenger +cars and trucks by European makers amounted +in 1928 to about 589,900, as compared with 574,000 +units in the preceding year. Of the 1928 +production, 215,000 cars were made in Great +Britain; about 200,000 in France; 90,000 in Germany; +50,000 in Italy; 12,000 in Czecho-Slovakia; +9,000 in Austria; and 7,000 in Belgium.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="SOME_AGRICULTURAL_STATISTICS"> + SOME AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The production of wheat in England and +Wales, 1927, was estimated at 53,116,000 bushels. +In France, it was about 284,000,000; in +Italy, 196,000,000; in Hungary, 76,000,000; in +Roumania, 97,000,000; in Germany, 121,000,000. +Yield per acre was 32.5 bushels in England and +Wales, 37.1 in Belgium, 11.7 in Greece, and +23.7 in Finland.</p> + +<p>The production of rye in Russia (all parts +of the Socialist Soviet Republics reporting) was +968,000,000 bushels in 1927. It was 269,000,000 +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</span>in Germany; 37,000,000 in France; 224,000,000 +in Poland; 23,000,000 in Hungary; 49,000,000 in +Czecho-Slovakia; 19,000,000 in Sweden; 20,000,000 +in Belgium; 27,000,000 in Spain; 18,000,000 +in Austria. The yield per acre was 35 bushels +in Belgium, 9.8 in Greece, and about 13 in European +Russia.</p> + +<p>The production of corn (maize) in Italy, +1927, was estimated at 100,388,000 bushels. Rumania +produced 145,000,000 bushels; Russia +157,000,000 bushels; and Jugoslavia, 77,000,000 +bushels. The yield per acre ranged from 12.4 +in Bulgaria to 51.3 bushels in Switzerland. It +was 25.4 in Italy.</p> + +<p>The 1927 production of oats in Russia was +about 896,000,000 bushels; in Germany, it was +437,000,000 bushels; in France, it amounted to +373,000,000 bushels; in Poland, to 236,000,000 +bushels; in England and Wales, to 94,059,000 +bushels. The yield per acre was 67 bushels in +Belgium, about 10 bushels in Portugal.</p> + +<p>The production of barley in 1927 was estimated +at 216,000,000 bushels in Russia; 12,000,000 +in Germany; 89,000,000 in Spain; and 57,000,000 +bushels in Roumania.</p> + +<p>Poland produced in 1927 about 3,031,000 bushels +of flaxseed and 147,700,000 pounds of fibre. +Lithuania produced 1,561,000 bushels of seed +and 85,407,000 pounds of fibre. The production +in Latvia was about 1,000,000 bushels of seed +and 42,636,000 pounds of fibre. Belgium produced +415,000 bushels of seed and 65,036,000 +pounds of fibre.</p> + +<p>Italy produced in 1927 about 953,000,000 +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</span>pounds of cleaned rice. The Spanish production +was 330,000,000 pounds.</p> + +<p>Olive oil exported from Italy in 1926 amounted +to 51,938,000 pounds. Spain exported 165,960,000 +pounds. In both cases, edible and inedible +varieties are included.</p> + +<p>The production of potatoes, 1927, was 114,000,000 +bushels in England and Wales; 111,000,000 +in Belgium; 630,000,000 bushels in +France; 130,000,000 in Spain; 1,379,000,000 in +Germany; 283,000,000 in Czecho-Slovakia; 1,166,000,000 +in Poland. The yield per acre was +266.7 bushels in Belgium, 78.8 in Bulgaria. It +was 63 (1926) in Jugoslavia.</p> + +<p>The amount of hops produced, 1927, in England +and Wales was estimated at 28,616,000 +pounds. In France, it was 11,000,000 pounds; +in Germany, 16,000,000; in Czecho-Slovakia, 21,600,000 +pounds. The yield per acre was 1,339 +pounds in Belgium; 401 (159 in 1926) in Germany.</p> + +<p>The production of sugar beets in 1927 was +11,964,000 tons in Germany; 10,913,000 in Russia; +8,306,000 in Czecho-Slovakia; 6,143,000 in +France.</p> + +<p>Austria had (in 1923) 2,162,000 cattle; 1,473,000 +swine; and 597,000 sheep. In 1928, Belgium +had 1,739,000 cattle; 1,124,000 swine; and +126,000 sheep. In 1925, Bulgaria contained +1,560,000 cattle and buffaloes; 574,000 swine; +and 8,682,000 sheep. Czecho-Slovakia (1926) +had 4,690,000 cattle; 2,539,000 swine; and 860,000 +sheep. Denmark (1927) had 2,912,000 cattle; +3,731,000 swine; and 230,000 sheep. England +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</span>and Wales (1928) had 6,026,000 cattle; +2,967,000 swine; and 16,386,000 sheep. Estonia +had (1927) 630,000 cattle; 350,000 swine; and +667,000 sheep. In 1927, Finland had 1,870,000 +cattle; 420,000 swine; and 1,370,000 sheep. +France in 1928 contained 14,940,000 cattle; +6,020,000 swine; and 10,690,000 sheep. Germany +reported in 1928 that it contained 18,010,000 +cattle; 22,900,000 swine; and 3,820,000 sheep.</p> + +<p>Greece in 1926 had, including buffaloes, 890,000 +cattle; 452,000 swine; and 6,630,000 sheep. +In 1928, Hungary reported 1,810,000 cattle; 2,660,000 +swine; and 1,560,000 sheep. Ireland +(the whole island) had in 1928 cattle numbering +4,880,000; swine to the number of 1,400,000; +and 3,950,000 sheep. In 1924, the kingdom of +Italy had 7,000,000 cattle, including buffaloes; +2,750,000 swine; and 12,500,000 sheep. Jugoslavia +had (1926) 3,800,000 cattle, buffaloes included; +2,800,000 swine; and 8,000,000 sheep. +In 1927, Latvia had 967,000 cattle; 535,000 +swine; and 1,130,000 sheep. The Netherlands in +1922 had 2,060,000 cattle; 1,260,000 swine; and +890,000 sheep. Norway in 1927 reported 1,210,000 +cattle; 300,000 swine; and 1,610,000 sheep. +The 1927 report of Poland shows 8,600,000 cattle; +6,300,000 swine; and 2,000,000 sheep. The +Portuguese report for 1925 shows 770,000 cattle; +1,120,000 swine; and 4,450,000 sheep. Roumania +in 1928 had cattle and buffaloes numbering +4,550,000; 3,080,000 swine; and 12,950,000 sheep. +European Russia in 1927 reported 43,880,000 +cattle; 15,840,000 swine; and 76,270,000 sheep. +Scotland in 1928 had 1,210,000 cattle; 195,000 +swine; and 7,500,000 sheep. Spain in 1927 reported +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</span>3,670,000 cattle; 5,030,000 swine; and +20,530,000 sheep. Sweden was estimated to +have in 1925 cattle numbering 2,000,000; 1,000,000 +swine; and 1,200,000 sheep. Switzerland in +1926 reported 1,587,000 cattle; 635,000 swine; +and 170,000 sheep.</p> + +<p>The production of wool, 1927, was estimated +to be (in grease) 118,537,000 pounds for the +United Kingdom; 47,000,000 for France; while, +by way of comparison, it was over 328 million +pounds in the United States and about 322,000,000 +pounds in Argentina.</p> + +<p>Denmark exported 292,000,000 pounds of butter +in 1926; the Netherlands sent out 100,000,000; +Russia, 60,000,000; and the Irish Free +State, 56,000,000.</p> + +<p>Exports of cheese in 1926 were as follows: +Czecho-Slovakia, 7,732,000 pounds; Denmark, +15,345,000 pounds; Finland, 6,364,000 pounds; +France, 31,481,000 pounds; Germany, 2,320,000 +pounds; Hungary, 1,834,000 pounds; Italy, 72,888,000 +pounds; the Netherlands, 185,706,000 +pounds; Switzerland, 61,972,000 pounds; Jugoslavia, +4,180,000 pounds. The United Kingdom +imported 330,000,000 pounds and exported about +three million.</p> + +<p>Exports of eggs in the shell, 1926, were as +follows: the Irish Free State, 43,662,000 dozen; +Denmark, 69,351,000 dozen; Belgium, 33,796,000 +dozen; France, 21,821,000 dozen; Italy, 31,535 +dozen; the Netherlands, 86,414,000 dozen; Hungary, +24,749,000 dozen. Germany imported 196,000,000 +dozen and the United Kingdom 220,000,000 +dozen eggs.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</span></p> + + <h2 class="nobreak" id="RAILROADS"> + RAILROADS + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The state-owned railroads of Austria are +about 3,600 miles in length, and carried 127,000,000 +passengers in 1925. The state-owned +lines in Belgium have a mileage of about 3,000, +and carried 222,000,000 passengers in 1925. The +state-owned railroads of Bulgaria were of +1,400 miles in that year, and carried 9,000,000 +passengers. In 1927 the state-owned railways +of Denmark were 1,570 miles long, and the +passengers carried numbered 29,000,000. The +French railroads, (1926) with an approximate +mileage of 26,000, carried 783,000,000 passengers. +The German railroads in the same +year carried 1,819,000,000 passengers and had +a mileage of 33,000. The railways of Great +Britain had in 1926 a total mileage of 20,396, +and the number of passengers carried was over +1,500,000,000. The Dutch railroads were in +1926 of a total length of 2,260 and carried +48,000,000 people. The Italian railroads, 1926, +had a total mileage of 9,800, and the number +of passengers carried that year was 113,500,000. +The Norwegian railroads, of a total length of +2,240 miles, carried 23,000,000 passengers in +1926. The Polish railroads, in the same year, +had a total mileage of 12,000, and they carried +148,000,000 people. The railways of Sweden +in 1925 were of a total length of 9,600 miles; +they carried 66,000,000 passengers. The railroads +of Switzerland, 3,400 miles in 1925, that +year carried 148,000,000 people</p> + +<p>The freight carried, in millions of tons, for +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</span>the year reported, was 326 on the French railroads, +420 on the German ones, 240 on those +of Great Britain, 78 on the state-owned lines +of Belgium.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="MINERAL_PRODUCTION"> + MINERAL PRODUCTION + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The United Kingdom produced in 1927 iron +amounting to 7,290,000 long tons and 9,086,000 +long tons of steel. Germany produced in the +same year 13,102,000 metric tons of iron and +6,305,000 metric tons of steel. The French production +in metric tons was 9,293,000 of iron +and 8,275,000 of steel. Germany has lost important +mining districts temporarily or permanently +as a result of the Great War. (The +long ton is 2,240 pounds, the metric ton about +2,204).</p> + +<p>The production of petroleum, 1927, amounted +in all Russia to 72,400,000 barrels; in Roumania +to 26,000,000, and in Poland to 5,800,000.</p> + +<p>The production of coal in the United Kingdom, +1927, amounted to 255,000,000 long tons. +In 1926, on account of a serious strike, it was +only 127,000,000. It was 278,000,000 long tons +in 1923. The production of coal in Germany, +1927, was 153,600,000 metric tons. France +mined 52,487,000 metric tons of coal in 1927.</p> + +<p>Austria produced in 1927 3,253,000 metric +tons of coal, mostly lignite. The product of +pig iron was 330,000 metric tons; of steel ingots, +474,000 tons; and of rolling mill products, +352,000 tons; all in 1926.</p> + +<p>Belgium mined in 1927 coal amounting to +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</span>27,600,000 metric tons. Production of pig iron +was 3,750,000 metric tons and of steel 3,700,000.</p> + +<p>Bulgaria produced in 1927 a total of 1,237,650 +tons of coal; 24,000 tons of copper; and 4,000 +tons of lead.</p> + +<p>Czecho-Slovakia mined in 1927 anthracite +coal weighing 14,600,000 metric tons and bituminous +and lignite weighing 20,028,000. It +produced 1,174,000 metric tons of iron ore.</p> + +<p>Greece produced in 1926 iron amounting to +126,000 metric tons; chromite, 20,000; iron +pyrites, 80,000; magnesite, 123,000; zinc, 35,000; +crude zinc, 10,000; salt, 90,000; and lignite +coal, 153,000.</p> + +<p>Italy (1927) produced 467,000 metric tons +of pig iron; 1,530,000 of steel; 338,000 of sulphur +ore; 179,000 of zinc; 52,000 of lead; 2,000 +of mercury or quicksilver; and 90,000 of +bauxite.</p> + +<p>In 1927, Luxemburg produced 7,244,000 +metric tons of iron and 2,470,000 metric tons +of steel.</p> + +<p>Over 9,000,000 metric tons of coal were mined +in the Netherlands in 1927.</p> + +<p>In 1926, Poland produced 327,000 tons of iron +ore; 27,000 tons of purified lead; 124,000 tons +of zinc; 788,000 tons of steel; 208,000 tons of +potash; 35,747,000 tons of coal.</p> + +<p>In 1926, Roumania produced over 3,000,000 +metric tons of coal, mostly lignite; 63,000 tons +of pig iron; and 344,000 tons of salt.</p> + +<p>The Union of <ins title="Original has 'Socialist Soviet'" id="Socialist">Soviet Socialist</ins> Republics in +1927 produced 30,950,000 metric tons of coal; +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</span>2,963,000 of pig iron; 3,586,000 of steel, and +100,000 troy ounces of platinum. There are +many great undeveloped mineral resources in +Russia.</p> + +<p>Spain in 1926 produced 6,641,000 metric tons +<ins title="Original has 'or'" id="of">of</ins> coal; 1,100,000 of iron and steel; 201,000 of +zinc; 149,000 of lead; 48,000 of copper; and +30,000 of mercury ore.</p> + +<p>Sweden in 1927 produced 10,726,000 metric +tons of iron ore; about 450,000 tons of coal; +and 65,000 tons of sulphur pyrites.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="WINE_PRODUCTION"> + WINE PRODUCTION + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The following figures are for 1926, and were +compiled by the <i>Beverage News</i>:</p> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><span style="margin-left: 1.0em;">Country</span></td> +<td class="tdc">Gallons</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">France (incl. Corsica)</td> +<td class="tdr">899,300,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Italy</td> +<td class="tdr">792,000,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Spain</td> +<td class="tdr">346,500,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Portugal</td> +<td class="tdr">45,320,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Azores, Canaries, Madeira</td> +<td class="tdr">1,650,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Austria</td> +<td class="tdr">8,800,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Hungary</td> +<td class="tdr">26,400,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Jugoslavia</td> +<td class="tdr">44,000,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Germany</td> +<td class="tdr">21,780,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Czecho-Slovakia</td> +<td class="tdr">4,400,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Russia</td> +<td class="tdr">44,000,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Switzerland</td> +<td class="tdr">11,000,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Turkey, Cyprus</td> +<td class="tdr">8,800,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Greece</td> +<td class="tdr">48,400,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Bulgaria</td> +<td class="tdr">29,700,000</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Roumania</td> +<td class="tdr">110,000,000</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</span></p> + +<p>The official figures for France are 1,473,042 +gallons in 1926 and 892,410,000 in 1927. There +were 3,350,000 acres of vinelands in 1927. 270,000,000 +gallons of cider were produced in 1927.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="INTERNATIONAL_COMMERCE"> + INTERNATIONAL COMMERCE + </h2> +</div> + +<p>Austria in 1927 exported goods worth $286,700,000; +and its imports amounted to $432,000,000.</p> + +<p>The imports of Belgium were $807,400,000; +the exports were $728,400,000.</p> + +<p>Czecho-Slovakia exported $599,000,000; imported +a lower amount, $531,700,000.</p> + +<p>Denmark imported goods worth $443,000,000, +and exported to the value of $413,100,000.</p> + +<p>Finland’s exports amounted to $159,300,000; +its imports in the same year, 1927, were $160,400,000.</p> + +<p>The exports of France amounted to $2,158,400,000, +and its imports to $2,065,000,000. In +the preceding year, the exports were slightly +below the imports.</p> + +<p>Germany in 1927 exported commodities worth +$2,425,500,000, and imported $3,362,000,000. +The respective figures for 1926 were $2,343,800,000 +and $2,376,300,000.</p> + +<p>Italy in 1927 exported $803,100,000 and imported +$1,033,500,000.</p> + +<p>The Netherlands imported $1,022,700,000 and +exported commodities worth $762,000,000.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</span></p> + +<p>Norway imported $257,100,000 and exported +$178,200,000.</p> + +<p>Poland imported $313,800,000 and exported +$281,200,000.</p> + +<p>Sweden imported $422,500,000 and exported +$432,300,000.</p> + +<p>Switzerland imported $482,800,000 and exported +$386,000,000.</p> + +<p>The United Kingdom imported $5,931,500,000 +and exported goods worth $4,044,800,000. In +the preceding year (1926), imports amounted +to $6,040,500,000, and exports to $3,777,200,000.</p> + +<p>As Professor Seligman points out, “imports +must in the long run pay for exports, and +vice versa.” But “it must be remembered that +goods are exchanged not only for goods, but +for services.” In the case of the United Kingdom, +important service items are investment +returns, freight, insurance, and foreign exchange +charges paid by foreigners. Most leading +European countries have an “unfavorable” +balance of trade; that is, their imports are +more valuable than their exports, measured in +tangibles alone. This condition existed before +the World War, and is not to be taken as an +indication of impoverishment.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="TRADE_WITH_THE_UNITED_STATES"> + TRADE WITH THE UNITED STATES + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The following figures are for the year 1927, +and are stated in thousands of dollars: three +noughts understood in each case.</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</span></p> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><span style="margin-left: 1.0em;">Country</span></td> +<td class="tdc">Bought<br>from U. S.</td> +<td class="tdc">Sold<br>to U. S.</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Austria</td> +<td class="tdc">4,364</td> +<td class="tdc">10,611<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Belgium</td> +<td class="tdc">116,201</td> +<td class="tdc">72,240<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Czecho-Slovakia</td> +<td class="tdc">7,442</td> +<td class="tdc">31,739<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Denmark</td> +<td class="tdc">58,673</td> +<td class="tdc">4,139<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">France</td> +<td class="tdc">228,746</td> +<td class="tdc">167,778<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Germany</td> +<td class="tdc">481,581</td> +<td class="tdc">200,554<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Hungary</td> +<td class="tdc">1,753</td> +<td class="tdc">949<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Irish Free State</td> +<td class="tdc">10,882</td> +<td class="tdc">1,642<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Netherlands</td> +<td class="tdc">148,268</td> +<td class="tdc">87,180<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Norway</td> +<td class="tdc">23,361</td> +<td class="tdc">22,235<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Switzerland</td> +<td class="tdc">10,122</td> +<td class="tdc">45,864<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">United Kingdom</td> +<td class="tdc">840,066</td> +<td class="tdc">357,930<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Estonia</td> +<td class="tdc">918</td> +<td class="tdc">432<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Finland</td> +<td class="tdc">16,487</td> +<td class="tdc">8,670<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Jugoslavia, Albania</td> +<td class="tdc">996</td> +<td class="tdc">985<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Latvia</td> +<td class="tdc">1,029</td> +<td class="tdc">4,469<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Lithuania</td> +<td class="tdc">218</td> +<td class="tdc">520<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Poland, Danzig</td> +<td class="tdc">9,261</td> +<td class="tdc">4,825<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">European Russia</td> +<td class="tdc">64,087</td> +<td class="tdc">12,004<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Bulgaria</td> +<td class="tdc">468</td> +<td class="tdc">891<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Greece</td> +<td class="tdc">15,028</td> +<td class="tdc">29,625<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Malta, Gozo, Cyprus</td> +<td class="tdc">1,112</td> +<td class="tdc">225<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Roumania</td> +<td class="tdc">4,925</td> +<td class="tdc">649<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">European Turkey</td> +<td class="tdc">3,380</td> +<td class="tdc">12,393<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Italy</td> +<td class="tdc">131,649</td> +<td class="tdc">108,907<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Portugal</td> +<td class="tdc">10,672</td> +<td class="tdc">4,565<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Azores, Madeira</td> +<td class="tdc">1,945</td> +<td class="tdc">1,820<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Spain</td> +<td class="tdc">73,772</td> +<td class="tdc">34,351<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Gibraltar</td> +<td class="tdc">1,537</td> +<td class="tdc">53</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>Europe, including Iceland, bought from the +United States in 1927 tangible commodities to +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</span>the stated value of $2,313,762,813, and sold to +the United States in that year goods said to +be worth $1,276,246,978.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="SHIPS"> + SHIPS + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The naval expenditures of Great Britain, +from April, 1926, to March, 1927, are said to +have been 58,000,000 pounds sterling. Those +of France in 1926 are said to have been 1,842,800,000 +francs. Those of Italy, from July, 1926, +to June, 1927, are said to have been 1,209,600,000 +lire. By way of comparison, the United +States spent for naval purposes, from July, +1926, to June, 1927, $320,553,000. The French +figures are incomplete, not showing how much +was spent for the construction of new ships. +(Par of exchange for pounds, francs, lire, may +be found under the next heading).</p> + +<p>The United States has 18 battleships, with +a tonnage of 325,850. Great Britain has 20, +with a tonnage of 580,450. France has 9, with +a tonnage of 194,544. Italy has 7, with a tonnage +of 133,670. The United States has 10 +war cruisers, with a tonnage of 75,000. Great +Britain has 54, with a tonnage of 304,000. +France has 12, with a tonnage of 104,883; and +Italy has 12, with a tonnage of 67,330. The +United States has three airplane carriers, with +a tonnage of 78,700; Great Britain has six, with +a tonnage of 107,550; France has one of 21,653 +tons. Of the first line destroyer type of war +vessel, the United States has 276 destroyers; +Great Britain has 17 leaders and 156 destroyers; +France has 7 leaders and 34 destroyers; +Italy has 8 leaders and 45 destroyers. Only +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</span>about 100 of the American destroyers are kept +in commission.</p> + +<p>The gross tonnage of merchant vessels, 1928, +was 19,875,000 for Great Britain; 3,777,000 for +Germany; 3,334,000 for France; 2,968,000 for +Norway; 2,817,000 for the Netherlands; 3,429,000 +for Italy; and 493,000 for Belgium.</p> + +<p>The tonnage of ships built in 1927 was 1,226,000 +in the United Kingdom; 72,000 in Denmark; +44,000 in France; 289,000 in Germany; +120,000 in the Netherlands; 101,000 in Italy, +and 67,000 in Sweden.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="FOREIGN_EXCHANGE"> + FOREIGN EXCHANGE + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The monetary unit of Great Britain is the +pound sterling, with a par value of $4.8665. +The average cable quotation in New York, 1927, +was $4,861. The French franc has a par of +exchange of $.0392. The average cable quotation +was .0477 in 1925; .0324 in 1926; .0392 in +1927. It was quoted at .039040 on September +1, 1928. The Belgian belga (5 francs) has a +par of $.1391. The average cable quotation in +New York, 1927, was $.1392. The Italian lira +has a par of $.0526. The German reichsmark +has a par of $.2382. The Spanish peseta, with +a par of $.1930, was quoted at $.161245 on +November 1, 1928. The average quotation for +1925 was $.1434.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="ARMIES"> + ARMIES + </h2> +</div> + +<p>In September, 1928, the number of men in +active service and enrolled in organized reserves +was as follows:</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</span></p> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tr> +<td class="tdl"><span style="margin-left: 1.0em;">Country</span></td> +<td class="tdc">Active Army</td> +<td class="tdr">Organized<br>Reserves</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Albania</td> +<td class="tdc">13,200</td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Austria</td> +<td class="tdc">43,000<br></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Belgium</td> +<td class="tdc">71,500</td> +<td class="tdr">500,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Bulgaria</td> +<td class="tdc">33,000<br></td> +<td class="tdl"></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Czecho-Slovakia</td> +<td class="tdc">150,000</td> +<td class="tdr">1,489,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Denmark</td> +<td class="tdc">9,200</td> +<td class="tdr">150,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Estonia</td> +<td class="tdc">17,000</td> +<td class="tdr">27,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Finland</td> +<td class="tdc">25,500</td> +<td class="tdr">235,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">France</td> +<td class="tdc">667,000</td> +<td class="tdr">5,010,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Germany</td> +<td class="tdc">100,500<br></td> +<td class="tdr"></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Great Britain</td> +<td class="tdc">212,000</td> +<td class="tdr">318,600<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Greece</td> +<td class="tdc">79,700</td> +<td class="tdr">415,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Hungary</td> +<td class="tdc">71,200<br></td> +<td class="tdr"></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Irish Free State</td> +<td class="tdc">13,000</td> +<td class="tdr">3,500<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Italy</td> +<td class="tdc">347,000</td> +<td class="tdr">2,995,200<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Jugoslavia</td> +<td class="tdc">142,000</td> +<td class="tdr">1,200,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Latvia</td> +<td class="tdc">19,000</td> +<td class="tdr">200,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Lithuania</td> +<td class="tdc">21,200</td> +<td class="tdr">170,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Netherlands</td> +<td class="tdc">32,100</td> +<td class="tdr">341,500<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Norway</td> +<td class="tdc">30,000</td> +<td class="tdr">315,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Poland</td> +<td class="tdc">242,400</td> +<td class="tdr">500,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Portugal</td> +<td class="tdc">35,000</td> +<td class="tdr">372,900<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Roumania</td> +<td class="tdc">266,500</td> +<td class="tdr">750,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Russia</td> +<td class="tdc">658,000</td> +<td class="tdr">5,425,000<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Spain</td> +<td class="tdc">260,700</td> +<td class="tdr">1,853,500<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Sweden</td> +<td class="tdc">10,200</td> +<td class="tdr">720,300<br></td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Switzerland</td> +<td class="tdc">500</td> +<td class="tdr">309,600</td> +</tr> +</table> + +<p>Military service is compulsory in all these +countries except Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, +Great Britain, Hungary, the Irish Free State, +and Sweden. The United States has a standing +army of 134,000 and an organized reserve force +of 291,000 (September, 1928).</p> + +<p><span class="pagenum" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</span></p> + +<p>The most recent figures for Russia show an +annual item of $346,000,000 for “defense.” +France spent 6,210,752,000 francs on her army +in 1928.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="TELEPHONES"> + TELEPHONES + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The number of telephones in use in 1927 was +about as follows: Austria, 158,000; Belgium, +176,000; Bulgaria, 10,000; Czecho-Slovakia, 129,000; +Denmark, 321,000; Finland, 99,000; +France, 819,000; Germany, 2,688,000; Greece, +6,000; Hungary, 115,000; Irish Free State, +24,000; Italy, 272,000; Jugoslavia, 28,000; Latvia, +24,000; the Netherlands, 225,000; Norway, +175,000; Poland, 131,000; Portugal, 22,000; Roumania, +53,000; Russia, 225,000; Spain, 131,000; +Sweden, 451,000; Switzerland, 210,000; and the +United Kingdom, 1,512,000. The total for +Europe, including countries and territories not +separately listed, was 8,081,000. The United +States had 17,746,000 telephones.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="SCHOOLS"> + SCHOOLS + </h2> +</div> + +<p>Public elementary schools in England and +Wales, 1923, numbered 21,000, with 7,150,000 +pupils and 166,000 teachers. Scotland had 676,000 +pupils in 2,900 public elementary schools. +The Irish Free State in 1925 had 5,600 elementary +schools with 489,000 pupils and 13,500 +teachers.</p> + +<p>Albania in the school year 1927-1928 had 530 +public schools, with 950 teachers and 30,000 +pupils. The Danish schools at the beginning +of 1927 had 464,000 pupils. There are over +<span class="pagenum" id="Page_32">[Pg 32]</span>3,000,000 pupils in the elementary schools of +France. Germany had in 1922 in 52,000 elementary +schools 8,894,000 pupils. Jugoslavia +in 1923 had 961,470 pupils in its elementary +schools. In 1928, Lithuania had 2,400 public +elementary schools with 124,000 pupils. Soviet +Russia at the end of 1926 had 9,900,000 children +attending 108,000 public elementary schools. +Sweden in 1926 had 660,000 pupils in elementary +schools.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> + <h2 class="nobreak" id="BUDGETS"> + BUDGETS + </h2> +</div> + +<p>The revenues of Great Britain for 1928 were +estimated at £842,824,000 and the expenditures +at £838,535,000. For the fiscal year 1927-1928, +Northern Ireland had expenditures of 11,203,000 +pounds and income of the same amount (advance +estimate). For the fiscal year ending +March 31, 1929, the Irish Free State had estimated +revenues of £23,164,000 and expenditures +of £22,433,000.</p> + +<p>The French provisional budget for 1929 shows +revenues of 45,281,000,000 francs and expenditures +of 45,225,000,000 francs. The German +budget for 1928-1929 was balanced at 9,528,571,000 +marks. The Belgian budget for 1928 showed +estimated revenues of 10,563,562,000 francs and +expenditures of 10,482,731,000. The Russian +budget for 1928-1929 was tentatively balanced +at 6,970,000,000 rubles, or $3,590,000,000. At +the other extreme, San Marino balanced income +and expenditures for 1926-1927 at 4,145,000 +lire. Liechtenstein in 1926 had an income +of 788,000 Swiss francs and expenditures of +774,000 francs.</p> + +<hr class="chap x-ebookmaker-drop"> +<div class="chapter"> +<div class="tnote"> +<h2 class="nobreak" id="Transcribers_note"> +Transcriber’s Note: +</h2> + +<p>Minor punctuation errors have been changed without notice.</p> + +<p>In the original text, there was a section on p. 16 incorrectly titled “American Citizens in Europe.” According to the Table of Contents, this should have been titled “<a href="#SOME_AGRICULTURAL_STATISTICS">Some Agricultural Statistics</a>.” The text has been corrected to reflect this.</p> + +<p>The table “Great Rivers of Europe” was originally split across pp. 7-8. The table “Automobiles” was originally split across pp. 15-16.</p> + +<p>Spelling was retained as in the original except for the following changes:</p> + +<table class="autotable"> +<tbody> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Page <a href="#Countries">3</a>: “Area and Population by Counties”</td> +<td class="tdl">to</td> +<td class="tdl">“Area and Population by Countries”</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Page <a href="#stability">5</a>: “more inclined to stablity”</td> +<td class="tdl">to</td> +<td class="tdl">“more inclined to stability”</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Page <a href="#Britain">14</a>: “United Kingdom of Great Britan”</td> +<td class="tdl">to</td> +<td class="tdl">“United Kingdom of Great Britain”</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Page <a href="#CITIZENS">14</a>: “AMERICAN CITIES IN EUROPE”</td> +<td class="tdl">to</td> +<td class="tdl">“AMERICAN CITIZENS IN EUROPE”</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Page <a href="#Socialist">23</a>: “The Union of Socialist Soviet”</td> +<td class="tdl">to</td> +<td class="tdl">“The Union of Soviet Socialist”</td> +</tr> + +<tr> +<td class="tdl">Page <a href="#of">24</a>: “6,641,000 metric tons or”</td> +<td class="tdl">to</td> +<td class="tdl">“6,641,000 metric tons of”</td> +</tr> + +</tbody></table> +</div></div> +<div style='text-align:center'>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 79010 ***</div> +</body> +</html> diff --git a/79010-h/images/cover.jpg b/79010-h/images/cover.jpg Binary files differnew file mode 100644 index 0000000..01956c7 --- /dev/null +++ b/79010-h/images/cover.jpg |
