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Colonial Policy | [P|S|M] |
Atlas of Germany's Colonies and Illustrated Yearbook, edited by the German Colonial Society, 1908, General
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General
Trade : (p.4) In 1908 German foreign trade amounted to a total value of
15,579 [million] Mark, of these 8,738 million Mark imports and 6,840 million
Mark exports. 1907 15,466 million Mark, of these 8,597 imports, 6,869 exports.
In 1904 the German Reich's total foreign trade amounted to 11,577 million Mark.
Merchant Fleet : Steamers over 1000 tons capavity sailing under German
flag on April 1st 1908 (according to "Nautikus" 1907) : 968, sailing
ships 169; on April 1st 1907 : steamers 936, sailing boats 176. In 1907 the
total crew of the German merchant navy was 68,000 men.
Navy : The Imperial Navy had at its disposal on January 1st 1908,
completed or under construction, 22 ships-of-the-line (4 outdated ships mot
included; 6 are under construction), 8 coastal ironclad vessels, 8 battle
cruisers, 27 large cruisers, 11 small cruisers, 9 canon boats, about 20 school
ships not fitted for combat, 11 special ships, 2 port ships and 1 submarine. The
combined crew numbered 46,913 men.
The
world's sea cables, according to ownership, are distributed (according to
"Nautikus" 1908) as follows :
| countries |
state owned cables |
private cables |
cables total |
| number |
length in km |
number |
length in km |
number of cable operating
companies |
number |
length in km |
| Argentina |
13 |
111 |
3 |
271 |
2 |
16 |
382 |
| Denmark |
98 |
569 |
33 |
17,202 |
1 |
131 |
17,771 |
| Germany |
98 |
5,448 |
9 |
24,301 |
3 |
107 |
29,749 |
| France |
70 |
20,702 |
44 |
51,026 |
2 |
114 |
71,728 |
| Great Britain and Ireland |
191 |
4,268 |
269 |
231,438 |
19 |
460 |
235,706 |
| USA |
11 |
4,163 |
38 |
54,054 |
6 |
49 |
58,217 |
| countries without private cables |
1,163 |
46,236 |
- |
- |
- |
1,163 |
46,236 |
| total |
1,644 |
81,497 |
369 |
378,292 |
33 |
2,040 |
459,789 |
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Source:
Deutscher Kolonial-Atlas mit Jahrbuch, (Atlas German Colonies, with
Yearbook), edited by P. Sprigade und M. Moisel, Yearbook and Remarks by
Hubert Henoch. Berlin 1909, p.4 |
GM
(digitalisation) and AG
(translation)
posted on the web for psm-data;
many thanks to
Staatsbibliothek
zu Berlin / Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Kartenabteilung
Dokument in deutscher
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