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x. internal communications.

sive correspondence, which make use of this means for receiving and despatching
telegrams from and to the Central telegraph station.

During 1913, the Telegraph Service opened a local "news ticker" service in
Stockholm, of which the apparatus was also supplied by Siemens & Halske, the
central station being on the premises of the Svenska Telegram byrån (Swedish
Press Agency). The subscribers to this service receive, day and night, news
and notices which are type-printed on a paper-tape by the apparatus.

The inland telegraph rates, which, at first, were in proportion to the length of
the wire or the distance between the stations, were made uniform, from the
year 1865, for the whole kingdom, and, until 1889, the rate was 1 krona
for telegrams, of 20 words with an additional 25 ore for every additional 5
words. From the beginning of the year last mentioned, the rate was fixed at
5 ore per word, with a minimum rate of 50 ore per telegram, while, from
the beginning of 1907, the minimum rate was lowered to 25 ore per telegram.
For the sake of comparison, it may be mentioned that the existing rate fee for a
5-word telegram is, in the following countries: in Sweden, 25 ore; Denmark, 50
ore; Great Britain, 6d; France 50 centimes; Norway 50 ore; Switzerland, 45
centimes; Germany, 50 pfennig; Austria 60 heller. Special, lower fees have
been fixed in Sweden for local telegrams, press-messages, and for telegrams
to and from the Telegraph Service’s stations on Gottland, during the period
when the regular postal communications with this island are interrupted by
storms, etc.

The rates for telegrams to abroad, which depend on the number of national
telegraph administrations the telegram has to pass and on the fees which have
to be paid to these departments, have, during the course of time, been
repeatedly lowered, especially to countries with which Sweden has commercial
intercourse of any importance. From the middle of 1912, there has existed a deferred
telegram service with half rates for extra-European messages in plain language;
agreements have been made with a large number of countries for lowering the
charges for press-messages to half rates. A night letter-telegram service, with
V6 of full rate charges, has existed since the beginning of 1914, between Sweden
and Denmark.

As regards the transmission of telegrams, it may be mentioned that, during
1913, the number of inland telegrams amounted to 2 053 647; of foreign,
terminal telegrams from Sweden to abroad, to 733 426, and to Sweden from abroad,
to 857 168; transit telegrams to 1 155 038, or, together 4 799 279 paid telegrams.
The number of paid telegrams which passed over the railway telegraph lines
only amounted in 1913 to 94 685. The total number of paid telegrams from
or to Swedish stations, or via Sweden, thus amounted to 4 893 964. Of the total
number of Sweden’s telegrams to or from abroad, those to and from Germany
amounted to 28-s %; Great Britain 24’b %; Denmark ll’e %; Norway 10’3 %;
France 5’i %; Russia, not including Finland, 4’6 %; Finland 4’2 %; the
Netherlands 3"i %■, Belgium 1*5 %; other European countries 3’9 % and extra-European
countries 2’6 %. The number of free telegrams (official and meteorological
messages) sent over the State telegraph wires was 294 274.

The total of the telegram fees received by Sweden for the telegrams forwarded
by the Telegraph Service amounted, in 1913, to 2 678 673 kronor; the total
income of the telegraph net (including the fees for the registration of telegraphic
addresses to an amount of 49 590 kronor; rent for telegraph wires, amounting to
30 448 kronor, etc.), came to 2 771 675 kronor. As the working expenses
amounted to 2 545 631 kronor, there was, for the year mentioned, a surplus on
the income of the Telegraph Service of 226 045 kronor, or, 4’87 % of the
average capital employed during the year for the telegraph net, which amounted
to 4 642 582 kronor.

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