Die neuere Entwicklung des Petroleumhandels in Deutschland

Russian local government during the war and the Union of Zemstvos

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Identifikator:: 883967979

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-3049

Document type:: Monograph

Author:: Gehrke, Franz

Title:: Die neuere Entwicklung des Petroleumhandels in Deutschland

Place of publication:: Tübingen

Publisher:: Verlag der H. Laupp'schen Buchhandlung

Year of publication:: 1906

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (VII, 121 Seiten)

Digitisation:: 2017

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: II. Die Verhältnisse in Deutschland

Collection:: Economics Books

THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE 245 schedules of consignments covering the period from May to Novem- ber, 1916, the Union applied for a total of 4,969 freight cars, but obtained only 1,887, whilst of the 8,702 cars demanded for extraor- dinary (express) consignments, only 1,683 were provided. The offi- cials of the Union were in fact reduced to extorting the necessary permits for cars from the railway officials, by personal appeals, per- suasions, and protests, and only in this manner did they succeed in loading about four hundred additional cars a month, outside of, and often contrary to, all schedules. During the navigation season of 1916, river transport was utilized, so that it was found possible to send by water 2,345,000 puds of cargoes. Merely to obtain railroad cars and load them, however, was not sufficient ; a constant watch had also to be kept on the actual move- ment of the goods. For this purpose the supply department main- tained a special force of convoy conductors, of whom not less than 150 accompanied the trains every month. Lost cars had to be traced and pursued all over Russia, and for this purpose likewise a special staff of employees had to be maintained. These men succeeded, among other things, in recovering more than 17,000 puds of copper worth 800,000 rubles: about 77 0,000 puds of leather worth 8,000,- 000 rubles; 11,000 puds of medical goods unobtainable in the Rus- sian market, and so on. The enormous quantity of goods converging from all sides upon Moscow naturally required correspondingly vast storage facilities. The depots of the Zemstvo Union, scattered all over the city, were crowded. It soon became necessary to devote serious thought to the problem of reorganizing the entire system of storage. The result was that a piece of land with three sheds was taken on lease at the Moscow-Windau railway station and eight new sheds were con- structed providing storage accommodation in the vicinity of rail- way line itself. The central depot alone cost 300,000 rubles, and toward the end of 1916, 6,000,000 rubles worth of goods were stored in these premises. Supply of Leather and Hides. It is probable that never previously in the history of Russia had cattle been slaughtered on so vast a scale as in the years of the War. The army itself required huge quantities of meat, though only on Very rare occasions in the past had meat appeared on the peasants’

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