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were 2,753.423 inhabitants in the Saar district and in these western 
ceded territories — Alsace-Lorraine, the Eupen-Malmedy district 
ceded to Belgium, and northern Schleswig-Holstein ceded to Den- 
mark. Again employing 45 pounds per capita, the sugar require- 
ments of the western ceded districts amounted to at least 61,952 
short tons or 43,783 short tons more than were produced by the 
Alsace-Lorraine factory. To cover this deficit Germany shipped 
sugar from the interior to the west and north so that the ceding of 
these territories would result in normal years in a potential net gain 
to the exportable surplus of the central districts of at least 43,783 
tons. The ceding of the eastern territories meant a potential loss of 
444.740 short tons to the exportable surplus of the nation. The dif- 
ference between the potential gains on the west and the potential 
losses on the east gives a grand total net loss of about 400,957 tons. 
This loss to Germany's exportable surplus is, roughly. 42.1 per cert 
of the average net exports during the period 1909-10 to 1913-14. 
(Table 41.) 
According to the data in Table 43, based upon the single season 
1912-13. the cessions of territory following the Versailles treaty 
resulted in a loss of about 20 per cent of the nation's sugar-beet area, 
about the same percentage of its potential sugar production, and 
approximately 42.1 per cent (probably 50 per cent; of its exportable 
surplus. 
Table 44. — Sugar: Approximate balance of the German Empire compared with 
that of the territory within the present boundaries of the Republic, 1912-13 l 
Description 
Empire of 
Germany 
Ceded dis- Germany, 
tricts and 1923 
the Saar boundaries 
Acreage planted 
Acres Acres 
278, 202 1, 074, 979 
Sugar beets worked ■ 
Sugar, in terms of raw sugar: 
Visible supply Sept. 1. 1912 ' 
Production at beet sugar factories 2 
Production at refineries and from molasses 2 
Imports 4 
Deficit of western "ceded territories" probably supplied by the 
central districts ; 
Short tons Short ions Short tons 
3, 665, .583 14. 679, 155 
Total supply from all sources. 
Gro^s exports refined and raw sugar 6 . 
Visible supply Aug. 31, 1913 ; 
t nacT'ounted for 
Deficit of western "ceded territories' 
central districts 5 
probably supplied by the 
Total 
Disappearance during year. 
163,064 
2,901,564 
81, 620 
2,803 
32,613 | 130,451 
561,296 i 2,340,268 
81,620 
2,803 I 
40. 
3, 149, 051 
637 
2, 552, 339 
« 1, 166, 478 
263, 169 
144,616 
1. 574, 263 
i 1,574,788 
400, 957 
23,772 
765.521 
210, 545 
40,980 
" - 
160,339 
L, 414, 449 
1 Sept. 1. 1912 to Aug. 31, 1913. 
1 Statistics supplied by Deutsche Zuckerindustrie Association. (See Table 43.) 
1 Visible suoply in "ceded territories" estimated to be 20 per cent of total for Empire. Deutsche Zuck- 
erindustrie, yol. 38, Xo. 42. Oct. 17. 1913, p. 927. 
4 Deutsche Zuckerindustrie, vol. 48, No. 6, Feb. 9, 1923. 
" : The deficit of the western "ceded districts" was supplied by a quantity equal to total imports plus 
shipments from territories now comprising the Republic of Gen 
Domestic disappearance included sugar consumed as human food, employed in industries, and held in 
storage elsewhere than at factories or official warehouses. 
6 The export from the "ceded districts" is approximated at the net surplus (.soeabove). 
