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“...Haikuan tael
for the past four years has been
Exchange per Haikuan tael— s. d.
1910 ..............................2 8f„
1911 ..............................2 8T%
1912 ..............................3 Of
1913 ..............................3 0£
Population of Consular district.—The Chinese population of Tientsin is
reckoned at about 800,000, that of Peking at 1,500,000. The population of the
district served by the port, i.e., Chihli, Shansi, Shensi and Kansuh, and parts
of Honan, Shantung, Manchuria and Mongolia, may be roughly estimated at
80,000,000.
The approximate number of British subjects in this Consular district is
1,300, exoluding the military forces....”
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