STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK 101472 STATISTICAL AND HISTORICAL ANNUAL OF THE STATES OF THE WORLD FOR THE YEAR 1900 EDITED BY J. SCOTT KELTIE, LL.D. SECRETARY ΤΟ THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY HONORARY CORRESPONDING MEMBER OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETIES OF PARIS BERLIN, WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF I. P. A. RENWICK, M.A., LL.B. THIRTY-SEVENTH ANNUAL PUBLICATION REVISED AFTER OFFICIAL RETURNS London MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY JA Man sagt oft: Zahlen regieren die Welt. GOETHE. My colleague, Mr. Renwick, and myself have again to express our warmest acknowledgments to all who have so kindly cooperated with us in the production of another year's issue of the STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK. It is only by such co-operation that it is possible to maintain the work at the standard which it is admitted to have reached. In the present edition a considerable number of changes have had to be embodied, owing to rearrangements of territories in all parts of the world. The last shred of Independent Central Africa has disappeared in virtue of the latest Anglo-French arrangement. The British Niger region has been reorganised, and the French West African Territories rearranged. Other international arrangements in Africa, in America, in Asia, in the Pacific, have necessitated corresponding changes in the Year Book. The changes in the administration of Japan have led to the section on that country being almost re-written. Under the British Empire, both in the Mother Country and in the various sections of the Empire beyond the seas, important changes have had to be recorded Throughout the work all the statistics and other information have been brought up to the latest available date. There are four specially prepared maps showing (1) the Partition of NorthEast Africa; (2) the Reorganisation of British Nigeria and the French West African Territories; (3) the Political Partition of the Pacific; (4) the final arrangement of the Boundary between British Guiana and Venezuela. The new series of introductory tables cover several subjects of general interest. The navies have been thoroughly revised by the well-known naval authority, Mr. Fred T. Jane. Such are a few of the new features of the 1900 edition, which, it is hoped, will meet with the same friendly acceptance that has been accorded to its predecessors. OFFICE OF THE "STATESMAN'S YEAR BOOK," ST. MARTIN'S STREET, J. S. K. March 28, 1900. |