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GERMAN EMPIRE : — ALSACE-LORRA.INE

kilometers or 5,605 English square miles, into three Bezi/ke, or districts.

It is administratively divided

Area, English square miles

Population

Pop. per

Districts

1910 1905

sq. mile. 1910

Oberelsass

Unterelsass

Lothringen

1,354 1,848 2,403

517,865 700,938 655,211

512,079 686,695 615,790

308-6 379-2 272-6

Total.

5,605

1,874,014 1,814,564

334-3

In 1910 the population speaking German numbered 1,634,260, French 204,262. The number of foreign subjects was 76,386. The garrison (1910) consisted of 82,276 men. In 1910, 53-2 per cent, resided in towns of 2,000 inhabitants and upwards ; 46-8 per cent, in rural communes. Chief towns, Strassburg (178,891 inhabitants in 1910), the capital of Alsace-Lorraine ; Mlilhausen (95,041), in Oberelsass; and Metz (68,598), in Lothringen. Marriao-es, 1911, 13,071 ; births, 46,930 ; deaths, 34,081 ; surplus of births, 12 849. Of the births, 1,265 (2-70 per cent.) were still-born, and 3,181 (6 -8 per cent. ) were illegitimate.

Eeligion, Instruction, Justice, and Crime.— In i9io, there were

1,428,343 Catholics, 408,274 Protestants, 3,868 other Christians, 30,483 Jews.

There is a university (at Strassburg, see German Empire), and in 1910 18 Gymnasia, 3 Progymnasia, 6 higher Kealschulen, 11 Realschulen (4 united with gymnasia), 1 agricultural school, 1 technical school, 7 seminaries, 5 preparatory schools for teachers, 68 higher girls' schools, 2,852 elementary schools, 73 private elementary schools, 491 infant schools, 49 intermediate schools, 5 institutions for the deaf and dumb, 2 for the blind, 2 for idiots.

There is an Oberlandesgericht (Supreme Court) at Colmar, and six Landgerichte. In 1909, 13,421 persons were convicted of crime.

Finance. — Budget estimate for year ending March 31, 1912, 3,681,529/., expenditure * ordinary, 3,484,498/. ; extraordinary, 197,031Z., total, 3 681 529Z. More than half the revenue from customs and indirect taxes, one of the largest branches of expenditure, is for public instruction. Debt of 3 per cent, rentes in circulation to the amount of 1,265,022 marks, equivalent, if capitalised, to a debt of 42,167,000 marks.

Production and Industry.— Area under principal crops and yield in 1911 (1 hectare = 2-47 acres ; 1 metric ton = 2,204 lbs.) :—

Crops

Hectares Metric Tons

Wheat Rye. Barley

137,423 53,502 48,635

208,399 82,992 93,886

Crops

Hectares Metric Tons

Potatoes Oats. Hay.

93,154 116,407 189,805

670,390 175,855 803,681

wine

Vineyards, 1911, 28,440 hectares, yield, 164,839 gallons of tobacco, 1910, 1,482-46 hectares, yield, 3,S20 tons of dried tobacco ; hops, 1911, 3,'947 hectares, yield, 3,190 metric tons.

The cotton manufacture is the most important in Germany ; woollens are produced on a smaller scale. Mineral products, 1911, 17,754,571 metric