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CHINA
23 "Crisp" Loan, British, 1912 (prior charge on Salt
Revenue).......
19
18 Hsinmintun-Mukden Railway Loan, 1909 (Y.320,000) 5 %
"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)
21 Yokohama Specie Bank, Railway Supplementary
Loan, 1910 (Y. 10,000,000)
22 Hukuang Railways Loan, 1911 (German, British,
French and American)
£ 32,834 £ 29,185
7%
450,000 216,000
""
450,000 216,000 sque
5 % 3,000,000
3,000,000
אגן
1,026,000
""
1,026,000
""
6,000,000 6,000,000
เลย
""
5,000,000
5,000,000
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
5 % 25,000,000 25,000,000
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:---
Ти
29
6 %
4,000,000 3,200,000 3,200,000
4,000,000
Province.
Area,
Estimated
Pop. per
square miles.
Population
square mile
Anhui
54,826
37,000,000
675
Chekiang
36,680
22,690,000
194
Chihli
115,830
29,400,000
251
Fukien
46,332
20,000,000
434
Hunan
83,398
22,040,000
26
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
330
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 1918 to be 244,527. Of these, 159,950 were Japanese, 59,719 Russian, 7,953 British, 2,651 Germans, 2,417 Portuguese, 5,766 Americans, and 2,580 (including protéges) French, other nationali- ties being represented by 3,491. In spite of the war the number of Europeans has 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 1918 which showed the number of commercial firms to be 6,930. Japan headed the list with 4,483, followed by Russia with 1,154, the United Kingdom with 606, America with 234, Germany with 75, France with 156, Portugal with 43, Italy with 36, Holland with 24, Austria-
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