NOTEBOOK “μ” (“MU”)

The Statesman’s Year-Book, 1915 (London, 1915) (52nd year). Edited by J. Scott Keltie.

“The British Empire”, 1913- 14

Railways open

1 mile = 1.6 km.; 134 ✕ 1.6 = 214,400 km.; 130 ✕ 1.6 = 208.0771 ✕ 1.6 = 1,233.6 + 208 = 1,441 km.

Railways in the Dutch colonies (end of 1913)

| | 1,512 | miles | — | Java |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| | 209 | ” | | Sumatra “Dutch East Indies”, including Borneo and Celebes. |
| | |
| Σ= | 1,721 | ” |

1,721 ✕ 1.6 = 2,753.6 km.

Dutch West Indies (Curaçao, Surinam = Dutch Guiana)—no railways.

⋕ Neumann-Spallart, Surveys of World Economy , 1883-84. p. 508. “In Mauritius there has been no addition since 1882 to the two railways totalling 92 miles.”

Ibidem, p. 512 .

Four small colonial powers (Eleven countries)

British railways in Africa [1913]

United States

British Empire

Russia

Germany

France

Small colonial powers (Holland, Portugal, Belgium, Italy)

Rest of Europe

Japan

South America

Semi-colonies....

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Notes:
[1] So given in the Statesman’s Year-Book .— Ed .