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231 the greater part of the services between the home ports, and the transportation of agricultural products to England. Besides many other routes the company maintains a first class passenger connexion with North America served by two liners of between 10.000 and 12.000 tons each. The largest fleet of motor ships is owned by Det Østasiatiske Kompagni (The East Asiatic Co. Ltd.) for which company the Burmeister & Wain Yard in the year 1912 built the first Diesel motor ship „Selandia“. For the protection of shipping interests the Danish shipping trade is organized under the Dansk Dampskibsrederiforening (The Danish Shipowners Association) Amaliegade 33. Copenhagen K, the Chairman of which institution is A. O. Andersen Esq., K.* DM., and the Danish Sailing Vessel Owners Association, Marstal, Chairman Erik B. Kromann Esq. kilde. In the year 1862 the total length of railway lines in this country was 109 km., in 1900 it was 2914 km. and at the beginning of 1931 it had risen to 5300 km. About one half of the railways are State Railways and the latter also maintain steam ferry connexions with Sweden between Copenhagen—Malmo and Elsinore—Helsingborg, and with Germany between Gedser—Warnemiinde. The ferries of the State Railways also maintain the connexion in the through traffic which is frequently broken by the numerous fairways. The principal overland connexion between Denmark and central and south Europe is via Padborg in North Slesvig. 44 million railway journeys of an average length of 31 km. are made annually in Denmark. The goods traffic carried amounts to about 10 miil. tons per annum. The gross receipts irom the transportation of goods and passengers amount in all to 140 miil. Kroner, three fifths of this amount. falling on the transportation of goods. There are daily connexions by ail- between Denmark and other European capitals. Thanks chiefly to Denmark’s excellent high-roads which since the war have been rendered more firm by special paving and surface treatment (Macadamization) the motor traffic in recent years has acquired very considerable importance both for passenger and goods traffic. On the 30th of September 1933 there were in Denmark about 144.000 licensed motor vehicles (including 1200 motor busses and 24.000 motor cycles). In the year 1932 there was one automobile for every 30 of the population, whereas abroad the figures for the same year were as follows: Sweden one for every 41 of the population, in Belgium one for every 44, in Norway one for every 55 and in Germany one for every lOl of the population. The Mail and Telegraph services in Denmark are exclusively in the hånds of the State. The Great Northern Telegraph Company, founded in 1869, has laid out and owns an extensive cable system in Europe and Asia. On the other hånd the Telephone service, apart from the inter-provincial communi- •cation and that of North Slesvig, is in private hånds. In Denmark every twelfth person has a telephone' and this is only exceeded by U. S. A. In 1930 the number of telephone conver- sations carried on in Denmark per head of the population amounted to 154. The corresponding .figures for Germany in the same year were 40, Great Britain 30, and France 20 per head of the population. * Other Communications. The first railway in Denmark was opened in 1847 and ran from Copenhagen to Ros­

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