§ Mr. LESLIE SCOTTasked the Postmaster-General if he would give a list of the direct telegraphic lines between the chief commercial centres of the Continent and London and between such Continental towns and the towns of the United Kingdom other than London; and whether it is intended to provide further direct lines from any other, and, if so, which of such other towns of the United Kingdom, and when?
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§ Mr. HERBERT SAMUELThere are direct telegraph lines between London and the following commercial centres on the Continent:—
In France.—Paris, Havre, Lille, Lyons, Marseilles, and Bordeaux.
In Germany.—Berlin, Hamburg, Bremen, Frankfurt, Cologne, Dusseldorf, and Magdeburg.
In Holland.—Amsterdam and Rotterdam.
In Belgium.—Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent, and Ostend.
In Italy.—Genoa, Milan, and Rome.
In Switzerland.—Zurich.
In Austria.—Vienna.
In Hungary.—Budapest.
Liverpool is the only place other than London possessing direct communication with Continental offices. Those offices are:—Antwerp, Bremen, Hamburg, Havre, and Paris. It it not proposed to provide direct communication with the Continent from any other provincial towns, as the amount of traffic from and to those towns is not sufficient to justify the special allotment of wires to that traffic.