

M:im:icLANDs. 



for 



guilders for the public debt, 0.481,61? 



finance, 9,341,457 guilders for payment* to m 



in compensation for the suppression of the 



guilders for the central administration of the colo- 

 nies, 22.697.752 guilders f. r the NVaterstaat, com- 

 m,r... tad iadustrv id 1.985,000 



guilders for the railroads and 50,000 guilders for 

 nnfbreatao 



Th. debt, nearly two thirds of which 



pays 24 per cent, ami the rest 8 per cent, interest, 



amounts! in 1M7 to 1.072,798.650 guilders, inelud- 



r railroad bonds assumed 



when the lines were transferred to the state, i.ut 



l .\000.000 guilders of paper in 

 The annual interest charge is 29,883,235 guilders. 

 and the sinking-fund charge and the .-. 



ig debt to 8 per cent, under the law of Dec, 



, ---, . . ; - .... . 



The Army and Navy. The main reliance for 



M of the country still rests on th- 

 listed soldiers. Besides these, 10,400 young men 

 are drawn into the service every year by const rip- 

 who serve, or their substitutes serve, twelve 

 > with the colors and six years long* 

 leave of absence. All other able-bodied cit 

 an- inscribed in the S. huttereven. or civil guard, 

 for ten years, and up to the age of fifty years every 

 man who can bear arms belongs to tin Landstorm* 

 The peace effective for 1897 was as follows; StafT. 

 806 officers; 46 battalions, 985 officers and 16,884 

 men: 16 squadrons and 3 depots, 143 officers and 

 8,098 men; 4 J1 batteries. 3 divisions of train, and :! 

 . i "-; lV r - md 'J.7-VJ in- n : !< -,.mpanir> of 

 fortress artillery, 217 officers and 1,976 men; 1 

 anies of artillery for armored forts, 15 officers 

 ami I ipanies of pontonniers. 14 <>11i- 



cers and 196 men; 2 torpedo companies. U < !li -r- 

 and 206 men ; 9 companies of engineers, 98 ofl'n-er 

 and 726 men; 3 sanitary-service companies. :j offi- 

 cers and 108 men; 1 corps of gendarmes. 1'J . 

 and 767 men; 2 companies in recruiting service for 

 the colonies, 13 officers and <; i J men; total, 1,882 

 officers and 26,97'J men. with 5,755 horses. 



The naval force consists of 13 armored or pro- 

 tected vessels, 12 ironclad monitors, 5 river gun- 

 boats, 22 gunboats, 37 torpedo boats, and 14 minor 

 vessels, besides 8 stationary hulks, 24 school ships, 

 and one torpedo transport: the total armament i- 

 879 guns and 33 torpedo ejectors. The crews num- 

 ber 6.918 men. A naval militia is drawn by con- 

 scription to serve a nominal terra of five years, but 

 all the men in actual service are recruited by en- 

 list n> 



Comninni ml ions. There were 1,680 miles of 

 railroads in operation on Jan. 1, 1897. The Gov- 

 ernment telegraph lines had a total length of 3,560 

 miles, with 12.G40 miles of wire. The number of 

 i sent in 1896 was 4,621,954, of which 2,427,- 

 intcrnaland 2.161,090 international paid 

 and 88,156 were official. The receipts 



708 



ding 662,029 francs of extraordinary ex- 

 penditure. The port office in 1896 forward, d TO 

 864.000 internal and 24.175.000 foreign letters, 86,- 

 650.000 internal and 6,645.000 foreign postal cards, 

 18O919.CX ' l .",.837,000 foreign printed 



inclosures, and 8^58,000 internal money orders and 

 letters of the value of 324.002,000 francs, and 548,- 

 000 foreign ones of the value of 107.750,000 francs. 

 Comment. The special imports in 1896 were 

 valued at 1.628,800,000 guilders, not including 

 6,700,000 guilders of specie, and the exports of Dutch 

 produce and manufactures at 1.336.100,000 guilders, 

 not including 1,300.000 guilders of specie. Of the 

 imports of merchandise 495.300.000 guilders were 

 alimentary articles, 608,700,000 guilders raw mate- 



rials, 267.000,000 guilders manufactured prod in 'is, 



-72^^,000 guilders miscellaneous merchandise. 



of the exports, 457,400,000 guilder consisted of ali- 

 mentary products, 464,200,000 j,Miildei - ,,f raw ma- 

 terials, 861,600,000 gllild< nufa.-lmvd ar 

 '.'.900,000 guilders of miscellaneous 

 product*. Tin- amount . D u'mlder-. \\ it h 

 the several foreign count ne- in 1M<; i- >h.\vn in 

 the foil, .w . which includes specie : 



COUNTRUS. 



Gennam 



(,.,-Ht I'.niaiu 



Sw.-.l.-n mi. I N,,|-wa> 



Roumania . . 

 Hair... 



Dutch East Indie*.. 



I'.nUsh |-:,,st In.h.-s 

 fi.it. -.1 Slat. 



< it her countries 



T-.lHl . 



805,700,000 

 174,100,000 



%floajx8 



M,000,000 



18,000,000 

 8,700^)00 



II.. MNI.IM. 



7,000^00 



I.^.^M..UIII 

 18,000,000 



879,700/W) 



vr.m.-ji.M.M. 



IIVI.INII.IHIII 



^500,000 



n,XMo 



B40Q.OOQ 



r,.s...,Mi 

 6^00,000 

 IJOO^OOO 



I...-MI.IKNI 





Navigation. During li"> : i. j:,i; , a il- 



iiiL' vessels, measuring 990,209 culiie met re-., and 

 9,597- . mea^urin.i; 'Jl.:: I".!")? euhi-- metres, 



entered at Dutch ports, and l.l ( .i" -ailinir vessels, 

 measuring 900,863 cubic metres, and !i.: 

 ers, measuring .iil.icmeit L <>f 



tin- arrivals 1,209 sailing vessels, ol nl'ic 



metre-, and !.<: : -ulie me- 



tres, and of the departures 1,115 sailing vessels, of 

 535,431 cubic metres, and .o,v. iteamers, of 11 

 847 cubic met re>. were \\ith cai-^oes. Tin- >ailin^ 

 vessels belonging to the Dutch mercantile n 

 among those entered numbered 607. of 'J77.1 1 -I cu- 

 bic metres; the Dutch steamers numlM n<i J.U'.i. of 

 5,467,415 cubic metres, and of the vessels cleared 

 662 sailing vessels, of 280,992 < -ul.ic metres, and 



steamers, of 5,472,647 cubic im-tr. 

 Dutch rctfi-try. The merchant marine ..n .Ian. 1, 

 of 440 sailing ships. ,.,,i,j t . 



metre-, ami 1?'J steamers, of .Vi.".sl7 -uhic me 1 



I he hutch i:a-t Indies. -Th,- Dutch posses- 

 sions in Asia comprise the colony of .lava and Ma- 

 dura and the outposts, which include Sin 

 parts of Borneo and New (Juim-a. the Kiau-Lingga 

 Arcliipela::". I'mnea, Ililliton. iVleli.-s, the \\ 

 Archipelago, and the min.r Sunda islands. The 

 area of Java and .Madura is .10,554 square ; 

 The jK.pulation in 1S:. "< 1,946, of whom 



were native Malay-. :, 1 

 257,4M Chinese. 16.569 Aral,-. ;i ,id :',.! 

 and others. The outposts have a total area of 

 s4i xjuare miles, with an enumerated population 

 of 8,3<8,219. Batavia, the capital of Java, has 1 1 4.- 

 566 inhabitants: Surakarta. 104,589; > 



.:: I'aleml.an^. in Sumatra. ::{.7><N : Uandjcr- 

 massin. in Borneo, 45,028. 



The Governor-General of the East Indies is Jonk- 

 heer ('. II. A. van d-r NVyck. apj.ointed in 

 The estimated revenue for 1897 was l'J7.; 

 guilders, of which 18.169,845 guilders were tin- 

 proceeds of sales of coffee, 117.iiHJ guilders from 

 cinchona, 17.110,000 guilders from tin. 15,15< 

 guilders from the farming of the opium monopoly. 

 17,389,000 guilders from the land tax or tithe.*- 

 000 guilders from the salt tax, 2,000,800 guilders from 

 posts and telegraphs. 10,577,000 guilders from rail- 

 roads, and 33.239,542 guilders from other so 

 The expenditures were estimated at 142,74*;-' :> 

 guilders. 



The merchandise imports of private persons into 



