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900

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