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11 Hankow Canton Railway Redemption Loan, 1905
(Hongkong Government)
13
12 Honan Railway (Pekin Syndicate) Loan of 1905
Canton-Kowloon Railway Loan, 1907 (H. & S. Bank) 14 Tientsin-Pukow Railway Loan, 1908 (Hongkong,
& Shanghai and German Banks)
15 Shanghai-Hangchów-Ningpo Railway Loan, 1908
(Hongkong & Shanghai Bank)..
16 Gold Loan of 1 08 (Peking-Hankow Railway Redemp- tion) (Hongkong & Shanghai and French Banks). 17 Kirin-Changchun Railway Loan, 1909 (Y. 2,150,000) 18 Hsinmintun-Mukden Railway Loan, 1909 (Y.320,000) 19 "Birchal" Peking-Hankow Railway Redemption Loan, 1910 (London City & Midland Bank for Dunn, Fischer & Co.)
43% 5 %
1,000,000
440,000
700,000
700,00 1
""
1,500,000
1,500,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
""
1,500,000
1,500,0 0
99
5,000,000
5,000,000
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220,599
220,599
19
32,834
29,185
7%
450,000
450,000
19
216,000
216,000
...
5 %
3,000,000
3,000,000
1,026,000
1,026,000
6,000,000
6,000,000
99
5,000,000
5,000,000
"
4,000,00
4,000,000
6%
3,200,000
3,200,000
5 %
25,000,000 25,000,000
19a 2nd issue of same, 1914 20 Tientsin-Pukow Railway Supplement Loan, 1910
(Hongkong & Shanghai Bank)
21
Yokohama Specie Bank, Railway Supplementary
Loan, 1910 (Y. 10,000,000).:
22 Hukuang Railways Loan, 1911 (German, British,
French and American)
...
23 "Crisp" Loan, British, 1912 (prior charge on Salt
Revenue)
24 Belgian Loan, 1913 (French-Belgian, for construc-
tion of Haichow-Lanchow Railway)
25 Austro-German Gunboat Loan, 1913.. 26 Quintuple Reorganisation Loan, 1913 (later charge on Salt Revenue), English, French, German Japanese and Russian
AREA AND POPULATION
China proper, extending over 1,335,841 square miles, is divided into eighteen provinces. According to the latest official estimates the area and population of the various provinces are as follow:-
Province.
Pop. per
Area,
Estimated
square miles.
Population
square mile.
Anhui
54,826
36,000,000
656
Chekiang
36,680
21,440,000
584
Chihli
115,830
29,400,000
254
Fukien
46,332
20,000,000
431
Hunan
83,398
22,000,000
264
Hupeh
71,428
34,000,000
476
Kiangsi.....
69,498
24,534,000
353
Kiangsu
38,610
26,9 20,000
697
Kuangsi
77,220
8,000,000
103
Kuangtung
100,000
32,000,000
320
Shantung.
MAAL
55,984
38,000,000
678
Szechuen
218,533
71,718,000
228
Yunnan...
146,718
7,571,000
51
Shansi
81,853
Shensi
75,290
Kansu
125,483
55,000,000
131
Honan
67,954
Kweichow
67,182
Totals
1,532,819
426,583,000
278
Manchuria (Chinese Estimate)..
.363,000
19,290,000
Total.....
445,873,000
It is to be noted that the Chinese census, following all Oriental methods of calculation, is not to be. trusted. There is no subject on which foreign and native statisticians are more contentious than that of the Chinese population. Experts vary in their estimates between 250,000,000 and 450,000,000.
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