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CHINA
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)......
5% £3,000,000 £3,000,000
A
"9
1,026,000 1,026,000
"
6,000,000 6,000,000
"
4,000,000
25 Austro-German Gunboat Loan, 1913... 26 Quintuple Reorganisation Loan, 1913 (later charge on Salt Revenue), English, French, German Japanese and Russian
6 %
5,000,000 5,000,000
4,000,000 3,200,000 3,200,000
5%
25,000,000 25,000,000
24 Belgian Loan, 1913 (French-Belgian, for construc-
tion of Haichow-Lanchow Railway)
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.
Area, square miles.
Estimated Population
Pop. per
square mile
Anhui
54,826
37,000,000
675
Chekiang
36,680
22,690,000
19
Chibli
115,830
29,400,000
254
Fukien
46,332
20,000,000
431
Hunan
83,398
22,040,000
264
Hupeh
71,428
24,770,000
347
Kiangsi...
69,498
24,534,000
353
Kiangsu
38,610
26,920,000
697
Kwangsi
77,220
8,000,000
103
Kwangtung.
100,000
32,000,000
320
Shantung.
55,984
38,000,000
678
Szechuen
218,533
72,190,000
:30
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
420,115,000
232
Manchuria (Chinese Estimate).
363,000
19,290,000
Total.........
439,405,000
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.
The total number of foreigners in China was ascertained in 1917 to be 220,485. Of these. 144,492 were Japanese, 51,310 Russian, 8,479 British, 2,899 Germans, 2,297 Portuguese, 5,618 Americans, and 2,262 French, other nationalities being represented by 3,128. In spite of the war the number of Europeans has been increased since 1915, and the total of Japanese residents has risen by nearly fifty per cent. in the same period. The Chinese Maritime Customs compiled a table in 1917 which showed the number of commercial firms to be 7,055. Russia headed the list with 2,914, followed by Japan with 2,818, the United Kingdom with 655, America with 216, Germany with 132, France with 127, Portugal with 51, Italy with 42, Holland with 22, Austria-
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