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APPENDIX VII.
Shipping Lines,
The following are the principal lines of ocean steamships maintaining regular services between China and foreign countries:--
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company (British).
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company (British).
The British-India Steam Navigation Company (British).
The China Mutual Steam Navigation Company (British).
The Glen Line (British).
Messrs. A. Holt and Co. (British).
The Shire Line (British).
The Messageries Maritimes (French).
The Chargeurs Réunis (French).
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company (American).
The Great Northern Steamship Company (American).
The Robert Dollar Company (American).
The Navigazione Generale Italiana (Italian).
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese).
The Toyo Kiser Kaisha (Japanese).
The Osaka Shosen Kaisha (Japanese).
The principal coasting lines, acting as feeders for the ocean services, are the
following:-
The China Navigation Company (British).
The Indo-China Steam Navigation Company (British).
The Douglas Steamship Company (British).
The China Merchants Steam Navigation Company (Chinese),
The Mitsui Bussan Kaisha (Japanese).
The Nisshin Kisen Kaisha (Japanese).
British Banks.
APPENDIX VIII.
Banks.
Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation—
Paid up capital
Reserve funds-
Sterling
Silver
Reserve liability of proprietors
$15,000,000
£1,500,000
$23,000,000
$15,000,000
Head office: Hong Kong. Branch offices in China Shanghai, Hankow, Tien-tsin, Peking, Amoy, Canton, Foochow, Harbin and Tsingtao,
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China-
Capital
Reserve fund
Reserve liability of shareholders
£
2,000,000
2,900,000
2,000,000
Head office: London. Branch offices in China: Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Hankow, Tien-tsin, Peking and Canton.
Japanese Banks.
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Yokohama Specie Bank. Sixteen branches in China, mostly in the north. Bank of Taiwan (Formosa). Operates chiefly in South China.
Bank of Chosen (Korea). Seventeen branches, all in North China, and most in
Manchuria.
Sumitomo Bank.
Mitsui Bank.
Mitsubishi Bank.
Sino-Japanese Banks (all of recent origin).
Exchange Bank of China (Hnai-Yeh Bank).
The Sino-Japanese Bank (Shanghai).
The Japan-China Bank (Tsingtao).
The Bank of Manchuria.
The Chinese and Southern Bank. A filiale of the Taiwan Bank for operation
among the Chinese dispersion in Malaya.
N.B. The Chinese Bank of Communications, of which Tsao Ju Lin is
president, is largely under Japanese control.
American Banks.
International Banking Corporation. Eight branches in China. Affiliated to
National City Bank of New York.
American Oriental Banking Corporation.
Asia Banking Corporation.
Park-Union Banking Corporation.
Sino-American Bank.
The Commercial and Industrial Bank of China.
French Bank.
Banque de l'Indo-Chine. Six branches in China.
Sino-French Bank.
Banque Industrielle de Chine. Ten branches in China.
Belgian Banks.
Banque Belge pour l'Etranger.
Banque Sino-Belge.
?Crédit Foncier d'Extrême-Orient.
Russian Bank.
Russo-Asiatic Bank. Thirteen branches in China.
Dutch Bank.
Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij.
German Bank.
Deutsch-Asiatische Bank. Six branches in China.
The principal banks have the right to issue currency notes. There are many small local Chinese banks, but the only big ones are the Bank
of Communications (see above) and the Bank of China.
APPENDIX IX.
Loans.
Mercantile Bank of India (Limited)-
Subscribed capital
Paid up capital
Reserve fund
£
1,500,000
750,000 - 700,000
Head office: London. Branch offices in China: Hong Kong and Shanghai.
(a.) Sino-Japanese War Indemnity Loans-
1895. Franco-Russian Government Loan of 400,000,000 fr. 1896. Anglo-German Government Loan of £16,000,000 1898. Anglo-German Government Loan of £16,000,000 [4797 8-1]
Balance outstanding December 30, 1918.
£
8,350,553
9,571,500
12,385,000
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