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APPENDIX IX.
Loans.
Balance outstanding
(a.) Sino-Japanese War Indemnity Loans
December 80, 1918. 1
1895.
Franco-Russian Government Loan of 400,000,000 fr.
8,350,558
1896,
1898.
Anglo-German Government Loan of £16,000,000 Anglo-German Government Loan of £16,000,000 12,385,000
9,571.500
(b.) Railway Loans—
British Peking Mukden Railway
1,400,000
Anglo-French: Peking Hankow Railway
4,750,000
Russo-Chinese: Chengting-Taiyan Railway
1,200,000
British Taokow-Chinghua Railway
560,000
Franco-Belgian: Lung-Hai Railway
5,000,000
Anglo-German Tientsin-Pukow Railway
7,750,000
British Shanghai-Nanking Railway
2.900,000
British Shanghai-Hangchow-Ningpo Railway
1,425,000
Anglo-American-Franco-German: Hukuang Railways
6,000,000
British Canton-Kowloon Railways
1,500,000
32,485,000
7,885,000
18,500,000
!
British sole interests
British joint interests
The above figures are given by Mr. S. F. Mayers in his mentorandum (Confidential Print 38784 of the 11th March, 1919).
To these may be added-
British Taokow-Chinghua Railway
ť
800,000
3,000,000
3,800,000
(c.) tieneral Loans—
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Balance oustanding
December 30, 1918.
£
British Birch, Crisp and Co.
Consortium First Reorganisation Loan
5,000,000
25,000,000
Consortium: Second Reorganisation Loan
1,000,000
First advance (Japanese)
1,000,000
Second advance (Japanese)
Third advance (Japanese)
1,000,000
1,000,000
Franco-Belgian Government Goid Loan, 1914
4,000,000
American-Japanese Grand Canal Loan American Wine and Tobacco Loan
1,200,000
6,000,000
44,200,000
To these should be added the Anglo-Danish Telegraph Company's Loan (Eastern Extension Company and Great Northern Telegrapli Company), 1911, of £5,000,000. of which the balance outstanding on the 31st December, 1918, was £458,336. and the numerous Japanese loans. A list of these is given in Sir J. Jordan's despatch No. 353 of the 25th July, 1918. These amount to the total of $24.810.000, of which €19,943,000 have been contracted since the war. They include the railway loans mentioned above, and the advances to the Second Reorganisation Loan. Besides these the principal Japanese loans are:
Loans (1903-1913) to the Hanyehping Company Asiatic Development Company Loan, 1915
€
3.200,000
500,000
Loan to Bank of Communications, 1917
500,000
Chibli Flood Loan. 1917
500,000
Grand Canal Loan (see above): Japanese share, 1917 Taihei Kumiai Arms Loan. 1918
500,000
1,400,000
Loan to Bank of Communications, 1918
2,000,000
Telegraph Administration Loan, 1918
2,000,000
Kirin-Heilungchiang Forest Loan, 1918
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8,000,000
British Sinyang-Pukow Railway
and the following Japanese railway loans (see China Year Book, 1919-1920'') :--
Kirin-Changchun Railway
Hsinmintun-Mukden Railway
Peking-Hankow Railway
Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway
Ssupingkai-Chengchiatun Railway
Ssupingkai-Chengchiatun Railway
Nanchang-Kiukiang Railway
Kirin-Changchun Railway
Kirin Changchun Railway
Kirin-Hueining Railway
? Peking-Suiyuan Railway
215,000
21,000
1,000,000
500,000
500,000
230,000
650,000
63,000
260,000
1,000,000
4,439,000
300,000
Sir J. Jordan, in his despatch No. 353 of the 25th July, 1918, gives the Kirin- Hueining loan as £2,000,000. In his despatch No. 546 of the 16th December, 1918, he adds
Four Manchurian Railways (Japanese)
Two railways in Shantung
on which £4,000,000 were advanced on the 22nd November, 1919.
£
15.000,000
7,000,000
22,000,000
The Annual Report on China for 1919 states that in 1917-1918 the Central Government borrowed between £20,000,000 and £30,000.000 from Japan. The most recent borrowings have been :-
1920 advance by Japanese Banks Marconi Wireless Loan (British) Vickers Aeroplane Loan (British)
900,000
600,000
1,800,000
The general loans offered for pooling in the New Consortium, the 13th October,
1920, were:-
By the British. French and Japanese groups--
Reorganisation Loan. 1913, further loan.
By the British and French groups—
Currency Reform and Industrial Development Loan, 1911.
By the American group-
Grand Canal Improvement Contract, 1917.
Continental and Commercial Trust and Savings Bank Loan, 1919.
Pacific Development Corporation Loan, 1919,
For Railway Loans similarly offered for pooling see Appendix IV.
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