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 DIPLOMATIC REPRESENTATIVES — DEPENDENCIES 7S1

Length.

10 Fen. . = 1 Ts't67i (inch).

10 Ts'un. . = 1 Oh'ih (foot) = 14*1 English inches by treaty.

10 Ch'ih. . = 1 Chang = 2 fathoms

1 Li. , = approximately 3 cables.

In the tariff settled by treaty between Great Britain and China, the Chik of 14yV English inches has been adopted as the legal standard. The standards of weight and length vary all over the Empire, the CMh, for example, ranging from 9 to 16 English inches, and the Chang ( = 10 CMh) in proportion ; but at the treaty ports the use of the foreign treaty standard of C'/iz'^and Chang is becoming common.

Diplomatic Representatives.

1. Of China in Great Britain.

Envoy and Minister. — Liu Yuk-lin,

Councillor of Legation.— ^\\' ^o\w\M.cliQ?i\y Brown, C.M.G.

Secretary. — P. K. C. Tyan.

Second Secretary. — Yuen Kali Shuen.

Attaches. — Tung Chen-liu, Lao Til-ch'ing, Lio Ming-yi.

Commercial Attache. — Tsung Yu-huan.

2. Of Great Britain in China.

Envoy and Minister. — Sir John Jordan, G.C.I.E., K.C.B., K.C.M.G. Appointed October 26, 1906.

Councillor of Legation. — Vacant.

Secretaries.— Ron. E. S. Scott, M.V.O., T. H. Lyons and Sir S. Head, Bart.

Naval AttacJie.—Csi^t the Hon. H. G. Brand, M.V.O., R.N.

Military Attache. — Major D. S. Robertson.

Chinese Secretary. — S. Barton.

Commercial Attache. — William P. Ker.

Judge — Sir H. W. de Sausmarez (at Shanghai).

Assistant Judge. — F. S. A. Bourne, C. M.G.

There are British Consular representatives at Peking, Amoy, Canton (C.G,), Changsha, Chefoo, Cheng-tu (C.G.), Chinkiang, Chung-king, Foo- chau, Hang-cliau, Hankau (C. G. ), Harbin, Ichang, Kiukiang, Kiungchau, Mukden (C.G. ), Newchwang, Nanking, Pakhoi, Shanghai (C.G. ), Swatau, Teng-Yueh, Tien-tsin (C.G.), Wuchau, Wuhu, Yunnan-fu (C.G.).

Chinese Dependencies and Frontier Provinces.

Manchuria, lying between the province of Chihli and the Amur river, and extending from the Hingan mountains eastwards to Korea and the Ussuri river, has an area of about 363,610 square miles and a population probably of about 20,000,000, bat variously estimated at from 5,750,000 to 29,400,000. It consists of 3 provinces, Sheng-King or Feng-tien (area, 56,000 sq. miles; pop. 10,312,241), capital Mukden; Kirin (105,000sq. miles; pop. 6,000,000), capital Kirin ; and Heilung-chiang or the Amur province (203,000 sq. miles: pop. 1,500,000) -with Tsitsihar for its capitaL The population given above for Fengtien provinces is from an official Chinese statement of November, 1908, which also gives the agricultural population as, 2,520,14:',, and the cultivated area as 4,333,333 acres.