CHINA
15 Shanghai-Hangchow-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.)
......
19a 2nd issue of same, 1914 20 Tientsin-Pukow Railway Supplement Loan, 1910
(Hongkong & Shanghai Bank)
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Yokohama Specie Bank, Railway Supplementary
Loan, 1910 (Y. 10,000,000)
593
5% £1,500,000 £1,500,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
""
220,599
220,599
""
32,834
29,185
7%
450,000
450,000
216,000
216,000
.......
5 %
3,000,000 3,000,000-
1,026,000
1,026,000
6,000,000
6,000,000
5,000,000
5,000,000
""
4,000,000
4,000,000
6%
3,200,000 3,200,000
5 %
25,000,000 25,000,000-
AREA AND POPULATION
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
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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 :—
Anhui Chekiang
Chihli
Fukien
...
Hunan
Hupeh
Kiangsi.
Kiangsu
Kuangsi
Kuangtung
Shantung..
Szechuen
Yunnan....
Shansi
Shensi
Kansu
....
Honan
Kweichow
Totals
....
Province.
Area,
square miles.
Estimated Population
Pop. per
square mile.
54,826
36,000,000
656
36,680
21,440,000
584
115,830
29,400,000
254
46,332
20,000,000
431
83,398
22,000,000
264
71,428
34,000,000
476
69,498
24,534,000
353
38,610
26,920,000
697
77,220
8,000,000
103
100,000
32,000,000
320
55,984
38,000,000
678
218,533
71,718,000
328
146,718
7,571,000
51
81,853
75,290
125,483
55,000,000
131
67,954
67,182
1,532,819 363,000
426,583,000
278
19,290,000
445,873,000
Manchuria (Chinese Estimate)
Total.......
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.
Of
The total number of foreigners in China was ascertained in 1915 to be 182,404. these, 101,589 were Japanese, 56,230 Russian, 8,641 British, 3,740 Germans, 3,300 Portu- guese, 4,716 Americans, and 1,649 French, other nationalities being represented by less than $2,300. The number of Europeans has been somewhat reduced by the great war, but it
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