599'
CHINA
General Loans-Continued
Date
Title or Source
Original Amount
Rate of Date of Re- Principal Outstanding Security Interest demption January, 1920
1914
1919
Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, Treas. Bills Vickers Co., Aeroplane
Loan
$80,000
6
$80,000
...
£1,803,200
8
2-1920
£1,803,200
1919
Hongkong & Shanghai
1919
Bank, Treasury Bills S.T242,545 Banque des Pays Bas, Commercial Guarantee Bank Bills
6
10-1929
...
S.T242,545
T.T459,204
10 12-1920
T.T459,204
1916
Banque Belge pour l'Etranger, Students abroad Loan
...
£37,097
8
12-1919
£6,468
AREA AND POPULATION
China proper, extending over 1,335,841 square miles, is divided into eighteen provinces. Considerable trouble and care were taken in 1919 by the Postal Administra- tion to obtain an estimate of the population of China. Recourse was had to the assist- ance of the provincial officials, which in most cases was willingly accorded. Underneath are given the results obtained. These, while they cannot be regarded as accurate, may be taken as a close approximation to actual figures. The footnote will show the limitations that have so far been imposed to a full record of the outlying districts:—
Province.
Province.
Area,
square miles.
Anhui Chekiang
Chihli Fukien
....
54,826
36,680
Kwangtung. Shantung.
......
Area, square miles
100,000
55,984
115,830
Szechuen
218,533
46,332
Yunnan.....
146,718
Hunan
83,398
Shansi
81,653
Hupeh
71,428
Shensi
....
....
75,290
Kiangsi.
69,498
Kansu
125,483
Kiangsu
38,610
Honan
67,954
Kwangsi
77,220
Kweichow
67,182.
Total.....
1,532,819
Manchuria (Chinese estimate)
...
363,000
Population
Population
Peking.
4,014,619
Chihli
30,172,092
Shansi
11.080,827
Honan
30,831,909
Hunan Kiangsi Kiangsu Shanghai
•
28,443,279
24,466,800
28,235,864
5,550,200
Shensi
9,465,558
Anhui
19,832,665
Kansu
5,927,997
Chekiang
22,043,300
Sinkiang.
2,519,579
Fukien
13,157,791
Manchuria
13,701,819
....
Kwangtung
37,167,701
Shantung
30,803,245
Kwangsi
12,258,335
Szechuen
49,782,810
Yunnan
9,839,180
Hupeh...
27,167,244
Kweichow
11,216,400
TOTAL: 427,679,214
Not included in the above (no data available) :—
(a.) 1 Hsien and Mongolia in Peking District. (b.) 3 Hsien in Manchuria District.
(c.) Tibet.