Communications and transit > Enquiry on national public works

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B. Baying of Underground Cabees for Teeephonic and Telegraphic Communications.
Since January 1st, 1929, the laying of the Warsaw-Cieszyn cable has been completed,
with branches to Ruda Slaska and Cracow, over a distance of about 560 kilometres at
a cost of 54 million zloty.
The cable extends, by way of Rowicz, Todz, Piotrkow, Czestochowa, Myslowice
k/Katowice, Bielsko, Cieszyn, as far as the Czechoslovak frontier; at Myslowice, it branches
to Cracow, on the one hand, and through Katowice and Ruda Slaska in the direction of
the German frontier, on the other.
The cable thus connects Warsaw with the principal industrial centres—namely,
the region of Todz, where the textile industry is concentrated—and the heavy industry
centres of Dabrowa, Upper Silesia, and Cracow, and also ensures communications, through
the Czech and German systems, with the States to the west and south of Poland.
At present, the Warsaw-Towicz-Gdynia-Danzig cable is under construction, with a
branch Torun-Bydgoszcz, totalling about 450 kilometres. The estimated cost is
22J million zloty. It is expected that the works will be completed in 1938.
The cable will pass by way of Towicz, Kutno, Krosniewice, Wloclawek, Torun,
Grudziadz, Starogard, Gdynia, Danzig. At Torun, there will be a branch to Bydgoszcz.
The cable will connect Warsaw and the principal industrial centres with the ports
of Gdynia and Danzig, and, by linking up with the German system at Danzig, it will
carry part of the communications with the States to the north of Poland.
It is also proposed, in the east, to lay cables connecting up Warsaw-Bialystok-Bara-
nowicze-U.S.S.R. frontier and Bialystok-Grodno-Wilno-Uithuanian frontier. The total
length of these cables will be about 850 kilometres. The cost of laying them is estimated
provisionally at 40 million zloty.
This cable system will connect Warsaw with the agricultural region of Wilno, and
will carry transit communications between Western and Southern Europe on the one
hand, and the U.S.S.R. and the Baltic States on the other.
C. Construction of Buildings.
Since 1929, buildings have been constructed of the approximate cubic content of
409,000 cubic metres, to the total value of about 33 million zloty (see Table 1).
Buildings are under construction of roughly 82,000 cubic metres, to the approximate
value of 4,500,000 zloty (see Table 2).
The construction is also contemplated of new buildings of 269,000 cubic metres,
to the value of 14,500,000 zloty (see Table 3).
The total value of the construction work carried out since 1929 and that in process
of execution, or in contemplation in the near future, amounts, in round figures, to 52 million
zloty, with a total cubic content of 760,000 cubic metres.
II. Administrative Methods followed for the Execution of the Works.
The works relating to the underground cable system and the construction of buildings
have been handed over under tender to private undertakings, which are executing them
on account of the Polish Posts, Telegraphs and Telephones, a State undertaking under
the permanent supervision of the Ministry of Posts and Telegraphs and of its organs.
III. Methods employed for financing the Various Works.
The construction of the Warsaw-Cieszyn cable has been financed partly out of
ordinary budgetary credits and party by means of foreign loans.
The financing of the construction of the Warsaw-Gdynia cable is by means of ordinary