TELEPHONES
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The number of telephones in use in 1927 was about as follows: Austria, 158,000; Belgium, 176,000; Bulgaria, 10,000; Czecho-Slovakia, 129,000; Denmark, 321,000; Finland, 99,000; France, 819,000; Germany, 2,688,000; Greece, 6,000; Hungary, 115,000; Irish Free State, 24,000; Italy, 272,000; Jugoslavia, 28,000; Latvia, 24,000; the Netherlands, 225,000; Norway, 175,000; Poland, 131,000; Portugal, 22,000; Roumania, 53,000; Russia, 225,000; Spain, 131,000; Sweden, 451,000; Switzerland, 210,000; and the United Kingdom, 1,512,000. The total for Europe, including countries and territories not separately listed, was 8,081,000. The United States had 17,746,000 telephones.