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- - - . - mfe WILMINGTON DISPATCH f-AR FORCES EUROPE fQ OPERATE RAILROAD; the cageofustrta-Hungry nearlrjownedor operated. I . all of the. 29,000 miles KrgdvernmeniJ owned antr operated." In-the case of York Journal of Commerce.) j Austria-Hungary nearly all of the The mobility of the war materials.! 01 , to men and munitions and km l 29,000 -.miles are government downed or controlled. t 'Of the 4,000 miles In Turkish territory only a small nropor- cut most of the mileagein some way is controlled by. it about tatement made by National City )t xew York; whwh says- that ,wo-thirds of the railways of at war are owned and In the area which has come under t. German. . control since .the beginning olfthe war, Bel gium, r parts of f'rance and"? Russia, and central Balkan territory, the rail- ways- aggregate about' 9,000 miles and are now entirely under military con trol.. -In Prance .only about 6,000 of the ;3t2,00f milea( are government owned and; operated, though the gov ernment has close relations witn a , large part of-the remainder by reason u,. I1 Jl i i soiih cases pperated . by the . gbv 111 ripn controlling the territory in .hich they exist. xlu railways of th. countries at amount to 200,000-; miles,- and 'hut i-'.00 miles are. government a nea and operated. In the case of l Uh the railwayi amount to uLr 4 per cent, are government 111 lilt; "-aac ui iiiu vcuutti : ociai li ij.i uuuci w uivjj. turrj 2,006Adsijgbyejmm r ; WILL EXTEND' TIME. I Europe ras. a whdlet, ; said the lee-1 16000 miles in Mexico about" 12,000l 35,000, France-1 turerr ha,saoout 220,60T miieTof ISfi-T18 'ewnedror nfoiiedy?fth56.v-32,000; Canada : 90,000, Austria-Huh- way, of which approximately 120,000 J rnmeny,.oi ine io.uw a crazu aoouc is government owned or controlled. 7,000 are governmental ; f; and of I tiie ah'd "knout 100;000 privately Owned, it t 21,000 in Argentina aboat v3,&0Q Ure AFTER CONTRACT. 601 ,. " 'r'rr'l Fisherram to be Glvin Chnce Be f TJn T' Iz:, i 'ZrX " cause of D.sstrous Wlndt. - ico lff.000. Brazil 116.000. Italy 11.000. . happens, however, that the trea inJ government owned. ' In.JInclia 30,Ot)0 1 British South Africa 11000; Spain Because of ; the prevalence of north which the military operations are in ot:the35,00Q miles belong fo the gov progress has the greatest density of ;'emment; of the Jr,000 'mile rkilwavs inVthe world BeieiiiTn hid 5 and Corea about 5,000 miles lire dn- before the War about 48 miles of rail- der the soverriment; and . of- the 22,r way for each 100 sauare miles of teV- i 000 miles in Australia and; New. Ze&l railways of the territory hich il't y control aggregate about j5Mi;i !.i;les and are practically all oi.verniueiiL cuuuui, 111 wuc nay In the case of Germany, ritory ; the part of Prance now occu pied by Germany about 30 miles per 100 square ' miles; Germany as a Avhole 19; Austria-Hungary about 11; France as a whole about. 15 ; Italy 10; Great Britain 19 ; European Russia iibout 2 miles; and Europe as a whole slightly less than 6 miles of railway for each 100 square miles of teritory. ,v - ; In" the Americas, the United States actually all of her 40,000 miles are pI ...r.m.-flt owned and operated. In were constructed. In Italy About 9,000 of the 1,000 miles are govern- J has; jabont 9 miles of lihe per 100 ment controlled; in Russia about two-: square miles of territory; Mexico, Ar thirds' of the 50,000 miles are govern- gentina and Uruguay .- about 2 miles ment owned, -and' in most cases oper-1 each ;' arid Canada about 'one mile for atea. in tne unitea Kingdom none ot the 25,000 miles are government 10.UUU, sweaen, ,ouu J apan uncma-j DO of 4-,- , , - Ing1 Korea), 7,000, China 6,000, Bel- ... gium 6,000, Chili 4,000. , 1 Fisheries Commission has granted an extension of a month to fishermen Of tire world's railways outside the , . - u . , . tt j j. t - ,. - a along the coast on the outside and United States sliehtlv more than one- B lhalf are government-owned or coh-!the seines can be kept in service un- trolled; of the telegraphs outside the,1" December 15th. The law says tnat United States approximately two-'fishin? shall not be continued after thirds are government owned and November 15th, but a provision gives operated. and, all but. 2,000.:milesvare .governmental.'.-'. .;j r : J3t the 700,000 miles' of railway In the world about one-third is " owned by governments; in Europe about 53 per cent, are government owned or controlled; Asia, 65 per cent. ; Africa, 60 "per cent; Oceania 90 per cent ; South America, 30 per cent., and North America, 5 per cent. In the United States there arc no govern- ment-ownea railways, except tne nneirtaVR the annual mpetine of th Illi-.1 x "t . Wilminotort Iron VVorkf Will Submit j ; Bid on Government Dredge. '.. , the Fisheries Commission the author ity to extend this time if it thinks such discreet. High School Conference at Illinois. ' Hundreds of pounds of fish have Urbana, 111., Nov. 23. The Universi-. been caught since the winds have !ty; of Illinois is entertaining for three ' shifted and if conditions continue fav- . .orable until the middle of December, now under construction in Alaska. nois High. School Conference. At the ; the fishermen should be able to make Our Own railways, the lecturer said, J opening of the proceedings today the ; an excellent showing for the season, are 270,000 miles in length and form j attendance included more than 1,000 Fishing was very good in the early each 100 square miles.- Of the 30,000 nearly 40 per cent, of those of the ' principals and ' teachers, representing fall, but later the strong northeast miles i of rail wav in Canada, about Tentire world, the next in rank in hfeh schools in all narts of the state. winds drove the fish south. ' Bids for the, construction of . th?C; motor dredge ' tende Manteo" which ; experts estimate will cost in the V neighborhood of $10,00P, will bet; opened In , the office of Major A.. E.- Waidrdn, United Statef engineer for the Wilmington district,, at noort onl December 1.. The specifications pro-; vide that the "Manteo" shall be ptv the single screw trunk and pilot : house type of dredge tender, the hull ' being of the 'following diinennions ' Length over all, 50 feet; lencth on water line, 45 feet 5 irfcho;. beam un der guards, 13 feet 1 1-4 incho; depth C -feet. The Wilmington Iron Worica Com pany, a local firm, will make an ef fort to land the contract, according to Capt. Edward P. Bailey, preslden! of the company. " ' ............................... ......... . ...... . . . i 1 1 1 i , ii i il i i rt i "i a '' lilt i I I 1 1 iVllili'llllkl lllllllllllliltllllllilllllllllll 111 Illllllllllllllllllllflllllllillflllllllllllllltllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll'a5 oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu TF.TV IPRIF? 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