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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 Prince Line Furness Far East (Limited)-(British).
The Messageries Maritimes (French).
The Chargeurs Réunis (French).
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company (American).
The Robert Dollar Company (American).
The Admiral Line (American).
The Green Star Line (American).
The China Pacific Company (American).
The China Mail Steam Navigation Company (American).
Lloyd Triestino (Italian).
The Nippon Yusen Kaisha (Japanese).
The Toyo Kisen 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
£2,500,000
$21,500,000
$15,500,000
Head office Hong Kong. Branch offices in China Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin, Peking, Amoy, Canton, Foochow, Harbin and Tsingtao.
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China-
Capital
Reserve fund
Reserve liability of shareholders
£
3,000,000
3,600,000
3,000,000
Head office: London. Branch offices in China: Hong Kong, Shanghai,
Hankow. Tientsin, Peking and Canton,
Mercantile Bank of India (Limited)—
Authorised capital
Paid-up capital
Reserve and undivided profits
£
3,000,000
1,050,000
1,227.638
Head office: London. Branch offices in China: Hong Kong and Shanghai,
Japanese Banks.
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 (Huai-Yeh Bank).
The Sino-Japanese Bank (Shanghai).
The Japan China Bank (Tsingtao).
The Bank of Manchuria.
The Chinese and Southern Bank (Kanan 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.
Philippine National Bank.
Sino-American Bank,
The Commercial and Industrial Bank of China (renamed Chinese American
Bank of Commerce).
French Bank.
Banque de l'Indo-Chine. Six branches in China,
Sino-French Bank.
Banque industrielle de Chine. Ten branches in China. (Failed, July 1921.)
Belgian Banks.
Banque belge pour l'Etranger.
Banque sino-belge.
?Crédit foncier d'Extrême-Orient.
Russian Bank.
Russo-Asiatic Bank. Thirteen branches in China. (Now under French protec-
tion and control.)
Dutch Bank.
Nederlandsche Handels Maatschappij.
German Bank.
Deutsch-Asiatische Bank. Six branches in China. (Closed.)
Chinese Banks.
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The principal Chinese banks doing foreign banking and exchange business
Bank of China.
Bank of Communications.
Shanghai Commercial and Savings Bank.
Bank of Canton,
Commercial Bank of China,
Ningpo Commercial Bank.
The principal banks, Chinese and foreign, have the right to issue currency notes.
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