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1426 THE STATESMAN'8 YEAR-BOOK, 1945 

MAC 

Macaulay Island (N.Z.), 429 

Macedonia, 983 

Macei6 (Brazil), 755 

Macerata (Italy), 1033 

— university, 1035 

McGill university (Canada), 342 

Machala (Ecuador), 852 

Mackay (Queensland), 386 

McKean Island (Pacific), 296 

McKeesport (Pennsylvania), 632 

Mackenzie (N.-W. Terr.) district, 347 

McMaster university (Ontario), 338 

McMurray dist. (Alberta), bitumen, 

327 

Macon (Georgia), 563 

Macouria (Guiana)-, 949 

Macqnarie Island (Tasmania), 403 

Madagascar, 908, 929 sqq 

— area and population, 908, 929, 931 

— British forces enter capital, 930 

— commerce, 932, 933 

— defence, 932 

— dependencies, 931 

— finance, 932 

— government, 930 

— governor, 930 

— money and banks, 933 

— ports, 933 

— production and industry, 932 

— religion, education, justice, 931 

— shipping and communications, 

933 

Madang (New Guinea), 431 

Madeira (Portugal), 1194, 1199 

— area and population, 1194 

Madhav college (CFjjain), 173 

Madina (Arabia), see Medina 

Madison ("Wisconsin), 659, 660 

Madras (India), city, 118, 134, 164, 

155 

*- port, 134, 156 

*~ University, 119, 155 

Madras (province), 111, 114, 154 tqq 

— agriculture, 128, 129, 155 

— area and population, 114,154 

— births and deaths, 116 

— communications and commerce, 

155 

— constitution and government, 

111, 154 

proclamation of governor, 154 

— education, 155 

— finance, 124, 125, 155 

MAI 

Madras (province), forests, 180, 155 


— justice and crime, 121, 155 

— land revenue, 124, 155 

tenure, 129 

— native states, 176 

— newspapers, etc., 121 


— religion, 117, 154 

— university, 119, 155 

Madras States (native), 176 

Madre de Dios (Peru), dept., 1177 

Madrid (Spain), province, 1275 

— town, 1275, 1276 


Madura (Netherlands East In.), 1121, 

1124 

— agriculture, 1124 


Madura (Madras), 118, 154 

Mafeking (Cape Province), 233 

Mafeteng (Basutoland), 230 

Magallanes (Chile), terr., 774 

— town, 775 

— wireless station, 780 

Magar race (Nepal), 1106 

Magdalena (Colombia), 809 

Magdeburg (Prussia), 96Q 

Magnitogorsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230, 1231 

Mahalla-el-Kubra (Egypt), 860, 861 

Mahe (French India), 909 

Mahe Island (Seychelles), 226 

Mahon (Baleares), wireless station, 

1278 

Maiana Island (Pacific), 297 

Maiao Is. (Fr. Oceania), 953 

Maidstone, population, 16 

Maiduru (Japan), shipyard, 1062 

Maikop (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Maimana (Afghan.), 694 

Maine, 491, 495, 582 sqq 

— agriculture, 583, 584 






— production, etc., 583, 584 

— religion and welfare, 583 

— representation, 491, 582 


Maine-et-Loire (France), dept., 885 

Mainland (Japan), 1056 

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MAI 

Mainland (Spitsbergen), 1148 

Mainz (Hesse), 960, 962 

Maio Is. (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

Maiquetia (Venez.), wireless station, 

1353 

Maitland (New South Wales), 369 

Majerba (Syria), 1318 

Majunga (Madagascar), 931, 932 

Makassar (Netherlands East Indies), 

1122 

Makatea Is. (Fr. Oceania), 953 

Makerere (Uganda), univ. coll., 213 

Makeyevka (U.S.S.R.). 1230 

Makhach-Kala(U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Makin, Little (Pacific), 297 

Malacca (Straits Settlements), 185 

Malaga (Spam), 1275 ; town, 1275 

Malaita Island (Pacific), 297 

Malakand (India), 177 

Malange (Angola), town, 1203 

Malaren Lake (Sweden), 1291 

Malatya (Turkey), vilayet, 1330; 

town, 1330 

Malay Archipelago (Portuguese possessions 

in), 1202, 1206, 1207 

Malay States, Federated, 189 sqq 

• agriculture, 190 

— area and population, 190 eqq 

commerce, 191 

communications, 191 

constitution and government, 

189, 190 

education, 190 

finance, 190 

high commissioner, 189 

justice and crime, 190 

money, etc., 192 

■ production, 190, 191 

British, 182 sqq 

— — Unfederated, 192 sqq 

Malaya, Straits Settlements, 184 sqq 

— area and population, 184, 185 

— commerce, 186 

— communications, 187 

— constitution and government, 184 





— justice and crime, 186 

— occupied by Japanese, 184 

— shipping, etc., 187 

INDEX 1427 

M"&.sr 

Malays (Sarawak), 98 

Maiden (Massachusetts), 588 

Maiden Island (Pacific), 300 

Maldive Islands (Ceylon), 99 

— sultan, 99 

Maldonado (Peru), 1177 

Maldonado (Uruguay), 1342 

— — town, 1342 

Malekula Is. (New Hebrides), 298 

Malerkotla (India), 178 

Malindi (Kenya), port, 212 

Malines, see Mechlin 

Malleco (Chile), 774 

Malmedy (Belgium), 729 

Malmo (Sweden), 1292 

Malmbhus (Sweden), province, 1290 

Malta, 86 sqq 




— constitution, 86 



— george cross, awarded the, 86 


— justice, 87 

— money, 88 

— production, 87 

Malwa (India), 166 

Man, see Isle of Man 

Manabi (Ecuador), 882 

Manado (Netherlands E. Indies), 

1121 

Managua (Nic), 1133, 1136; univ., 

1135 ; wireless station, 1136 

Mariahiki Island (Cook Is.), 428 

Manam Is. (New Guinea), 431 

Manamah (Bahrein), 710 

Manaos (Brazil), 755 

Manche (France), dept., 885 

Manchester, population, 16 ; univ., 

23, 24 

— Ship Canal, 68 

Manchester (N.H.), 607 

Manchukuo, 795 sqq ; Henry Pu-Yi 

crowned hereditary emperor, 

796 

Manchuria (Manchukuo), 795 sqq 

— agriculture and industry, 797 

— airports, 797 


— banking and currency, 797 




1428 THE STATESMAN'S TEAR-BOOK, 1945 

MAN MAR 

Manchuria (Matichukuo), communi- Manitowoc (Wisconsin), 660 

cations, 797 Manizales (Colombia), 808, 809 

— defence, 796 Mannheim (Baden), 960 

— education, 796 Manono Is. (Western Samoa), 434 

— finance, 796 Mans, Le (France), 887 

— government, 795 Mansfield, population, 16 

— justice, 796 Mansfield (Ohio), 624 

minerals, 797 Mansura (Egypt), 860, 861 

— posts, telegraphs, telephones, 797 Mantova or Mantua (Italy), 1033 

— railways, 797 Manuae (Cook Is.), 428 

Mandalay (Burma), 181, 182 Manus Is. (Bismarck Arch.), 432 

Mandi (India), state, 178 Manzanillo (Cuba), 822 

Mandinga (Panama), port, 1152 Maoris (N.Z.), 412sqq 

Mandingo race (Liberia), 937, 1077 Maracaibo (Venezuela), 1349, 1350, 

Mandwa (India), 171 1357 

Mangaia Island (Cook Is.), 428 ; Maracaibo Lake (Venezuela), 1352 

wireless station, 428 — wireless station, 1353 

Mangareva Is. (French Oceania), 953 Maracay (Venezuela), 1349, 1352; 

Mang-Oa (Annam), 913 wireless station, 1353 

Manhattan (ST. York), 498, 615 Marakei Island (Pacific), 297 

Manica district (Port. E. Af.), 1204 MaranhSo (Brazil), 755 

Maniema (Belgian Congo), 738 Maras (Turkey), town, 1330; 

Manikya Barman Bahadur, ruler vilayet, 1330 

(Tripura), 167 Marburg (Germany), university, 963 

Manila (Philippines), 676 Marches, the (Italy), 1032 

— captured by Japanese, 675 Mardin (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

— mint, 680 Mare Is. (California), navy yard, 510 

— re-occupied, 675 Mare" Island (French Pacific), 952 

Manipur (Assam), state, 143, 166 Margarita Is. (Venezuela), 1352 

Manisa (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 ; Marianne Islands (Pacific), 430, 1072 

town, 1330 Marib (Yemen), 706 

Manitoba, 303, 306, 308, 309, 331 Maribor (Yugoslavia), 1359 

sqq Marie-Galante Is. (Guadeloupe), 947 

— agriculture, 315, 316, 332 tqq Marii (U.S.S.R.), 1217 

— area and population, 307, 331 Marion (Ohio), 624 

— births, marriages, deaths, 308, Maritza (Bulgaria), coal, 770 

332 Mariupol (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

— communications, 332 Marlborough district (N.Z.), 414 

— constitution and govt., 303, 304, Marmara, sea of, 1329 

331 Marne (France), dept., 885 

— crops, 315, 316 Marne, Haute- (France), dept., 885 

— education, 308, 332 Maroni (Fr. Guiana), port, 948 

— finance, 310, 311, 332 — penal settlement, 948 

— forestry, 317, 332 Maronite sect (Cyprus), 100 

— lieutenant-governor, 306, 331 (Syria), 921 

— live stock, 316 Marosvaaarhely (Hungary), 1008 

— minerals, 332 Marquezas Is. (French Pacific), 953 

— production and industry, 315 sqq, Marrakesh (Morocco), 1099 sqq 

332 Marsa Fatma Eri (Eritrea), 1046 

— religion, 309 Marsa Matruh (Egypt), port, 868 

— representation, 304, 331 Marseilles (France), 887 ; faculties, 

— university, 332 891 

— wheat, 315 Marshall (Liberia), 1077 



Mil! 

Marshall Is. (Pacific), 430,1072,1073 

— now under control of U.S. navy, 

1073. 

Marshalltown (Iowa), 573 

Marta, Santa (Colombia), 809 

Martigny, fort. (Switzerland), 1309 

Martinique, 908, 949, 950 


— government, education and production, 

949 


Maryborough, (Queensland), 386 

Maryborough (Victoria), 319 

Maryland (Liberia), 1077 

Maryland (U.S.A.), 491,495,584 aqq 





— government, 58* 


— production and industry, 517, 586 



— shipping, 586 

— tobacco, 517, 577 


Masai Province (Kenya), 209 

— races, 209 

Masaka (Uganda), 213 

Masaya (Nicaragua), 1133 

Masbate Is. (P.I.), 676 

Mascara (Algeria), 919 

Maseru (Basutoland), 230 

Mashi (S.W. Africa), 465 

Mashonaland, 235 

Maskat (Oman), see Muscat 

Mason City (Iowa), 573 

Massachusetts, 491, 495, 587 sqq 


— area and pop., 495, 587, 588 


— crops, 589 




— naval station, 510 

— production, industry and commerce, 

517, 589, 590 

— religion and welfare, 588, 589 


— tobacco, 517, 589 

— universities, 588 

INDEX 1429 

MEC 

Massawah (Eritrea), 1046 

Massillon (Ohio), 624 

Matabeleland, 235 

Matadi (Belgian Congo), 740 

Matagalpa (Nicaragua), 1133 

Matanzas (Cuba), 822 

Matera (Italy), 1033 

Mateur (Tunis), 925 

Matrah (Arabia), 707 

Matto Grosso (Brazil), 755, 760 

— diamonds, 760 

Matu (Sarawak), 93 

Maturin (Venezuela), 1349 ; wireless 

station, 1353 

Maui Island (Hawaii), 668 

Mauke Island (Parry Island), 428 

Maule (Chile), province, 774 

Mauritania (Fr. "W. Africa), 908, 

937, 938, 943, 944 

— area and population, 908, 937, 

943, 944 

Mauritius, 219 sqq 

— area, population, etc., 220 





— dependencies, 221 




— money, weights and measures, 221 


221 

Mayaguana Island (Bahamas), 278 

Mayagiiez (Porto Rico), 671 

Mayence, see Mainz 

Mayenne (France), dept., 885 

Mayo (Eire), 474 

Mayotte Island (French), 934 

Mayurbhanj state (India), 167 

Mazabuka (&. Rhodesia), 240 

Mazagan (Morocco), 1099 

Mazar-i-Sharif (Afghanistan), 694 

Mbabane (Swaziland), 235 

Mbale (Uganda), 213 

Meath (Eire), 473 

Mecca (Arabia), 702, 704 sqq 

— legislative assembly in, 704 

Mechlin (Belgium), 730 

Mecklenburg, 957 

Mecsek Mountain (Hungary), coal, 

1011 




MKD MID 

Medan (Dutah East Indies), 1122 Meurthe-et-Moselle (Fiance), dept., 

Medellin (Colombia), 808, «09 885 

— university, 810 Meuse (France), dept., 885 

Medford (Massachusetts), 588 Mevli (India), 172 

Medford (Oregon), 629 ' Mewar (India), 178 

Medicine Hat (Canada), 326 Mexicali (Mexico), 1086 

Medina, El (Arabia), 702 sqq ' Mexico, 1085 aqq 

Medinet-el-Fayum (Egypt), 860 — agriculture, 1089 

Medjerdah valley (Tunis), 925 —area and population, 1086, 1087 

Meerut (India), 118, 163 —banking, 1092 

Meknes, 1099, see Mequinez — city, 1087 

Mekran (Baluch.), 145 — constitution and government, 

Melbourne, 379 1085, 1086 

— mints, 363, 384 — commerce, 1091 

Melilla (Spanish N. Africa), 1275, — defence, 1089 

1284 — federal finance, 1088, 1089 

Melitopol (U.S.S.B.), 1230 —money, weights and measures, 

Melo (Uruguay), 1342 1092, 1093 

Melos (Greece), 985 — president, 1085 

Meluan (Sarawak), 93 —production and industry, 1089, 

Memphis (Tennessee), 499, 642 1090, 1091 

Memramcook (New Brunswick), 833 .^-religion, education and justice, 

Mendoza (Arg.), 714 ; town, 715 1088 

Meng-Chiang, area and population, — shipping and communications, 

800 1091, 1092 

Mengo (Uganda), 213 — universities, 1088 

Mengtsz (China), port, 785 —war with Germany, iltaly and 

Mequinez or iMeknes (Morocco), Japan, 1086, 1086 

1099 Mexico City, 1087, 1080, 1091 

Mercedes (Uruguay), 1342 — university, 1088 

Merida (Mexico), 1087 Meiica (Yugoslavia), lead, 1362 

Merida (Venezuela), 1349; town, Miami (Florida), 495, 561 

1349 ; university, 1350 Michael, king of Rumania, 1215 

Meriden (Connecticut), 555 Michigan, 495, 615, 690 sqq 

Meridian (Mississippi), 596 — agriculture, 515, 592 

Merina tribe (Madagascar), 931 —area and population, 495, 590, 591 

Merionethshire, 14 — education, 590, 591 

Merksem (Belgium), 730 — finance, 592 

Merowe (Anglo-Egyptian Sudan), 255 —forests, 592 

Mersin (Turkey), 1330 — government, 590 

Merthyr Tydfil, population, 16 — governor, 590 

Merv (Turkmenistan), 1261 — minerals, 592 

Meshed (Persia) (Iran), 1167, 1168, —production and industry, 515, 692 

1170, 1172 - public lands, 515 

— wireless station, 1172 — religion and welfare, 591 

Mesopotamia, see Iraq — representation, 491,590 

Messenia (Greece), 983 — university, 591 

Messina (Sicily), 1033, 1085 — wheat, 592 

— town, 1032 Michoacaan (Mexico), state, 1087 

— university, 1035 Michurinsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Meta (Colombia), 809 Middle Congo Colony (Fr. Congo), 

Metz (France), 887 , 928 

Meudon (France), observatory, 891 Middlesbrough, population, 16 



INDEX 1431 

MID MOO 

Middlesex, 14 Miri (Sarawak), oilfield, 98 

Middletown (New York), 615 — wireless station, 93 

Middletown (Ohio), 624 Mirs Bay (Hong Kong), 104 

Midlothian, Scotland, 18 Misiones territory (Argentina), 714 

Mieres (Spain), 1275 Miskolc (Hungary), 1008, 1011 

Mikado (Emperor), Japan, 1053 Misr, see Egypt 

Mikindani (Tanganyika), 263 Mississippi, 491, 496, 595 sqq 

Mikkeli (Finland), 875 —agriculture, 515, 517, 596 

Milan (Milano) (Italy), 1033 ; town, — area and population, 496, 595, 596 

1035; university, 1035 — cotton, 517, 596 

Milanaus tribe (Sarawak), 93 — education, 595, 596 

Mildura (Victoria), 379 — finance, 596 

Milford (Delaware), 557 — government, 595 

Millsburg (Liberia), 1077 — governor, 595 

Milwaukee (Wisconsin), 498, 660 — production and industry, 515, 517, 

Minas (Uruguay), 1342 596, 597 

Minas Geraes (Brazil), 755, 756 ; — public lands, 515 

coffee, 758 ; mining, 759 — religion and welfare, 596 

Mindanao Is. (P.I.), 676, 677 —representation, 491, 595 

Mindoro Is. (P.I.), 676 — rice, 596 

Miahou (China), 784 — university, 596 

Minia (Egypt), see Minya Missolonghi (Greece), 983 

Minicoy Is. (Laccadives), 156 Missoula (Montana), 600 

Minneapolis, 498, 593 Missouri, 491, 495, 597 sqq 

— federal bank, 531 — agriculture, 598, 599 

— university, 593 — area, population and education, 

Minnesota, 491, 495, 593 sqq 495, 597, 598 

— agriculture, 515, 517, 594 — cotton, 517, 598 

— area and population, 495, 592, 593 — finance, 598 

— education, 593, 594 — government, 597 

— finance, 594 — governor, 597 

— government, 593 — production and industry, 517, 598, 

— governor, 593 599 

— production and industry, 515,517, — religion and welfare, 598 

594 — representation, 491, 597 

— public lands, 515 — tobacco, 517, 598 

— religion and welfare, 594 — university, 598 

— representation, 491, 593 — wheat, 598 

— tobacco, 517 Misurata (Tripolitania), 1044 

— university, 594 Mitchell (South Dakota), 639 

— wheat, 517, 594 Mit Ghamr (Egypt), 860 

Minot (N. Dakota), 622 Mitiaro Island (Cook Islands), 428 

Minsk (White Russia), 1230, 1232, Mitre Island (Pacific), 297 

1251 ; university, 1232 Mitu (Colombia), 809 

Minufiya (Egypt), 861 Mitubisi yard (Japan), 1062 

Minusinsk basin (Siberia), coal, 1265 Mizda (Tripolitania), 1044 

Minya (Egypt), 860, 861 Mlanje (Nyasaland), 222 

Miquelon Is. (Fr. Atlan.), 908, 950 Mobile (Alabama), 542 ; port, 543 

— area and population, 908, 950 Mocha (Arabia), 706 

— governor, 950 Mocoa (Colombia), 809 

Miranda (Venezuela), state, 1349 Modeliarpeth (French India), 909 

Mir Ghulam Khan, Jam (Las Bela), Modena (Italy), 1033 ; univ., 1035 

167 Mogadiscio (Ital. Somaliland), 1047 




MOG 

Mogador (Morocco), 1099 

Mogilov (White Russia), 1230, 1251 

Mohales Hoek (Baautoland), 230 

Mohammed Zahir Shah (Afghanistan), 

694 

Moheli Island (Comoro Islands), 

931 

Mohuru Point (Tanganyika), 260 

Moi tribes (Annam, etc.), 913 

Moji (Japan), 1057 

Moka-pagi nu-Muvadu (India), 172 

Mokgosi, Bamalete chief, 232 

Mokhotlong (Basutoland), 230 

Moknine (Tunis), 925 

Mokpo (Korea), port, 1069 

Moldavia (Rumania), 1215 

Molenbeek St. Jean (Brussels), 730 

Molise (Italy), province, 1032 

Molndal (Sweden), 1292 

Molokai Island (Hawaii), 668 

Molucca Islands (Moluccoes)(N.E. I.), 

1121 

Mombasa (Kenya), 210, 211 

— Old Port (Kenya), 212 

Monaco (principality), 1095 


— prince, 1095 

Monaco (town), 1095 

Monagas (Venezuela), state, 1349 

Monaghan (Eire), 474 

Moncton (New Brunswick), 333 

Mongalla (Sudan), 212 

Mongolia, 799, 800 


— trade, 799 

Mongolia, Outer, 800 


— industries, 800 

— parliament, 800 

— railway, proposed, 800 

Mongol-Buryat Republic, 1264 

Mongu (Northern Rhodesia), 240 

Monmouthshire, 14 

Mono Island (Pacific), 297 

Monrovia (Liberia), 941, 1077, 1079 

— bank, 1080 

Mons (Belgium), 730 

Montana, 491, 496, 599 sqq 


— area, population and education, 

496, 599, 600 

— finance, 600, 601 

— gold, 601 

MOB 

Montana, government, 599 


— Indian reservations, 600 

— mining, 518, 601 

— production and industry, 515, 

517, 601 

— public lands, 515, 599 



— silver, 518, 601 


— wheat, 517, 601 

Montana region (Peru), 1180 

Montclair (N.J.), 609 

Monte Carlo (Monaco), 1095 

Monte Cristi (Dominican Repub.), 

prov., 849 

Montego Bay (Jamaica), 281 

Montenegro, 1356 

Monterey (Mexico), 1087 

Montevideo (Uruguay), 1342, 1343 

— town, 1342,1343 


Montgomery (Alabama), 542 

Montgomeryshire, 14 

Montifcristi (Ecuador), hats, 855 

Montijo (Panama), port, 1152 

Montpelier (Vermont, U.S.A.), 649 

Montpellier (France), 887 ; univ., 890 

Montreal (Canada), 307, 342 ; fur 

auctions, 319 ; university, 

342 

Montreuil (France), 887 

Montserrado (Liberia), 1077 

Montserrat Is. (W.I.), 284, 285 

Moorea Island (Fr. Oceania), 953 

Moose Jaw (Canada), 344 

Mopti (Fr. Sudan), 943 

Moquegua (Peru), dept., 1177 ; town, 

1177 

Moradabad (India), 118, 163 

Morant Cays (West Indies), 281, 283 

Moravia, Bohemia and, protectorate 

of, 827, 829 

Moravska (Czechoslovakia), 830 

Moravska (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Moray (Scotland), 18 

Morbihan (France), dept., 885 

Morcegos (Post-India), 1206 

More og Romsdal (Norway), 1140 

Mo'relia (Mexico), town, 1087 

Morelos (Mexico), state, 1087 

Mormugao (Goa), mines, 1206 



INDEX 1433 

MOR MUW 

Mornag (Tunis), 925 Mozambique (Portuguese E. Africa), 

Morocco, 907, 1096 sqq 1202, 1204, 1205 

— agriculture, 1101, 1102 — area and population, 1202, 1204 

— area and population, 907, 1098, —governor-general, 1206 

1099 — port, 1205 

— commerce, 1102 — production, 1205 

— currency, weights and measures, — railways, 1205 

1104 Muang-Thai, see Thailand 

— defence, 1101 Mubarraz (Nejd), 704 

— education, 1099, 1100 Mubende (Uganda), 213 

— finance, 1100, 1101 Mudanya (Turkey), 1327 

— government, 1096 sqq. Mufulira (Northern Rhodesia), 240 

— justice, 1100 Mugla (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

— production and industry, 1101, Muhammad, H.H. (Negri Sembilan), 

1102 189 

— shipping and communications, Muhammed Riza Pahlevi, shah 

1103, 1104 (Persia) (Iran), 1166 

— sultan, 1096 Muhammerah (Persia) (Iran), 1167 

— university, 1099 Muhamrah (Iran), see Mohammera 

Morocco, French zone, 1098 sqq Muharraq (Bahrein Is.), 709, 710 

Morocco (Spanish), 1284, 1285 Mukah (Sarawak), 93 

Morocco, Spanish zone, 1098 sqq Mukden (Manchuria), 796 

Morocco, Tangier zone, 1098 sqq Miilheim-on-Euhr (Prussia), 960 

Protocol (1928), 1097 Mulhouse (France), 887 

Morondava (Madagascar), 931 Multan (India), 118, 159 

Mortlock Is. (Solomon Is.), 433 Miinchen-Gladbach (Prussia), 960 

Morvi (India), 179, 180 Muncie (Indiana), 571 

Moscow (U.S.S.R.), 1229, 1230, Munich (Bavaria), 960, 962, 963 

1232 — technical high school, 962 

— university, 1232 •— university, 963 

Moselle (France), 885 Munster (Eire), area and pop., 

Moshi Mwanza (Tanganyika), 260 474 

Mosquitia, La (Honduras), 1002 — religion, 474 

Mosquito Indians (Nicaragua), 1133 Munster (Prussia), 960 ; univ., 963 

Mossamedes (Angola); town, 1203 Muntafiq (Iraq), 1022 

Mossi tribes (Upper Volta), 937 Murcia (Spain), 1275, 1276 ; silk, 

Most (Czechoslovakia), 831 ; coal, 1280 ; town, 1275, 1276,1280 ; 

831 university, 1276 

Mostaganem (Algeria), 919 Mures (Rumania), 1217 

Mostar (Yugoslavia), 1359 Murmansk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Mosul (Iraq), 1022, 1025 ; oil, 1025 Murut race (Borneo), 91 

Motagua (Guatemala), bananas, 993 Murut race (Sarawak), 93 

Motherwell, population, 18 Murzuk (Libya), 1044 

Moulmein (Burma), 181 Mus (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

Mount Allison (New Brunswick), Muscat and Oman, 215, 707, 708 

univ., 333 — area and population, 707 

Mount Athos (Greece), 984 — trade, 707 

Mount McKinley national park Muskegon (Michigan), 591 

(Alaska), 665 Muskogee (Oklahoma), 627 

Mount Titano (San Marino), 1271 Mussau Is. (Bismarck Arch,), 432 

Mount Vernon (New York), 615 (New Ireland), 433 

Mouscron (Belgium), 730 Mutankiang (China), 795 

Moyobamba (Peru), 1177 Muwaila (Hejaz), 705 



1434 THE STATESMAN'S YEAR-BOOK, 1945 

MUZ NEB 

Muzo (Colombia), emerald mines, Napier (New Zealand), 414 

811 Naples (Napoli) (Italy), 1033, 1035; 

Mycenae (Greece), 885 town, 1035; university, 1035 

Myggbukta (Greenland), wireless Napo-Pastaza (Ecuador), 852 

station, 1147 Naricual (Venezuela), coalmine, 1352 

Mysore (India), 114, 118, 176,177 Narino (Colombia), 809 ; gold, 811 

— area and population, 114, 177 Narrogin (W. Australia), 398 

— education, 177 Nashua (New Hampshire), #07 

— government, 176, 177 Nashville (Tennessee*), 499, 641, 642 

— production, 177 — Fisk univ., 642 

— town, 118 Nasirabad tahsil (Balndhistan), 144 

— university, 119, 177 Nassau (Bahamas), 278 

Mytilene (Greeee), S83 Nassau (Cook Islands'), 428 

Mytiechehi (U.S.S.R.), 1230 Nassjo (Sweden), 1292 

Naswadi (India), 171 

Nabha

INDEX 1435 

NBB KBT 

Nebraska, government, 601, 602 Netherlands, The, government es- 

— governor, 602 tablished in London, 1110 

— Indian reservations, 602 — invaded by Germany, 1110 

— production and industry, 515, —justice and crime, 1114 

517, 608, 604 — Leiden university closed by 

— public lands, 515, 602 Germany, 1114 

— religion and welfare, 603 — money, weights and measures, 

— representation, 491, 602 1119 

— university, 602 — overseas territories, 1120 

— wheat, 517, 603 — partial liberation of country, 1111 

Nedounkadou (Fr. India), 909 —production and industry, 111-6, 

Nefta (Tunis), 925 1117 

Negri Sembilan (Fed. Malay Skates), — provinces, 1112 

189 sqq ; ruler, 189 — queen, 1108 

Negrito race (Andamans), 141 — religion, 1113 

Negros Is. (Philippines), 676 — representative bodies, suspension 

Neiba (Dominican Repub.), salt, by Reich of all, 1110 

848 — shipping, etc., 1117 

Neiva (Colombia), 809 — towns, 1112 

Nejd (Arabia), 703, 704 {see also — universities, 1114 

Hejaz and Nejd, kingdom of) Netherlands Borneo, 1121 

Nelson (British Columbia), 329 — area and population, 1121 

Nelson (New Zealand) district, 414 Netherlands Curacao, 1129 

— town, 414 — area and population, 1129 

Nepal, 1106 sqq Netherlands East Indies, 1121 sqq 

— appointment of envoy extra- — area and population, 1121 

ordinary and minister pleni- — Chinese in, 1121 

potentiary to the Court of St. — government organization set ^up 

James, 1934, 1106 in Brisbane, 1121 

— area and population, 1106, 1107 — invaded by Japanese, 1121 

— constitution, 1106 Netherlands Guiana, 1127 sqq'A [see 

— defence, 1107 also Surinam) 

— religion, 1107 — acting governor, 1127 

— ruler, 1106 —area and population, 1127 

— rupee, 1107 Netherlands-India, see Netherlands 

— trade, 1107 East Indies 

Nepalese in Sikkim, 179 Netherlands Indies, 1120 sqq 

Neravy (French India), 909 Netherlands West Indies, 1127- sqq 

Nes (Iceland), 1016 (see also Surinam and Curacao) 

Nestorians (Persia) (Iran), 1167 — air service, 1128 

Netherlands, The, 1108 sqq Nettapacom (Fr. India), 909 

— agriculture, 1116 Neuch&tel (Switz.), 1303, 1305 

— air forces co-operating with Allied — town, 1306, 1307 

air forces, 1115 —university, 1307 

— area and population, 1111, 1112 Neuenburg, see Neuehatel 

— banking and credit, 1118, 1119 Neuilly-sur-Seine (France), 887 

— commerce, 1117 Neuquen (Argentina), 714 

— communications, 1117, 1118 Nevada, 491, 496, 604 sqq 

— defence, 1114, 1115 — agriculture, 515, 605 

— education, 1113, 1114 — area and pop., 496, 603, 604 

finanee, 1114 — education, 605 

government and constitution, — finance, 605 

1108 sqq — government, 604 




NEV NEW 

Nevada, governor, 604 Newcastle, Greater (New South 

— mining, 518, 605, 606 Wales), 369 

— production and industry, 518, 605, New Castle (Delaware), 557 

606 New Castle (Pennsylvania), 632 

— public lands, 515 Newcastle-on-Tyne, population, 16 ; 

— religion and welfare, 605 college, 23 

— representation, 491, 604 Newchwang (China), port,- 785 

— silver, 518, 605 Newfoundland and Labrador, 273, 

— university, 605 302 sqq 

— wheat, 605 — area and population, 274 

Nevis Island (W. Indies), 284, 285 —bill for suspension of constitution, 

Nevsky (U.S.S.R.), 1236 274 

New Amsterdam (Brit. Guiana), — commissioners, 274 

271 — communications, etc., 276 

Newar race (Nepal), 1106 — constitution and government, 273, 

Newark (Delaware), 557 274 

Newark (New Jersey), 498, 609 — fishing, 276 

Newark (Ohio), 624 — governor, 274 

New Admiralty dockyard (U. S. S. R.), — imports and exports, 275 

1236 — production, 275 

New Bedford (Massachusetts), 499, — religion and education, 274, 275 

588 — revenue and expenditure, 275 

New Britain (Connecticut), 555 — shipping, 275, 276 

New Britain Is. (Ifcw Guinea), 432 — sites leased to U.S.A., 276 

New Brunswick, 303 sqq, 333, 334 New Georgia Island (Pacific), 297 

— agriculture, 314 sqq, 334 New Glasgow (Nova Scotia), 335 

— apples, 316 New Guinea (mandated territory), 

— area and population, 306, 333 430 sqq 

— births, etc., 307 — administrator, 431 

— commerce and communications, — area and population, 431, 432 sqq 

334 —ports, 433 

— constitution and government, 333 —production, 431 sqq 

— crops, 314, 316, 333 New Guinea, British, see Papua, 408 

— education, 309, 333 sqq 

— finance, 334 — North Eastern, 431 

— forestry, 334 " New Hampshire, 491, 495, 606 sqq 

— fruit farming, 316 — agriculture, 608 

— lieutenant-governor, 333 — area and population, 495, 606, 607 

— live-stock, 316 — education, 607 

— mining and minerals, 334 — finance, 607, 608 

— production and industry, 314 sqq, — government, 606 

334 — governor, 606 

— religion, 308 — naval station, 510 

— representation, 303, 333 — production and industry, 608 

— university, 333 — religion and welfare, 607 

— wheat, 315 — representation, 491, 606 

Newburgh (New York), 615 — shipping, 527 

New Caledonia, 908, 951 sqq — university, 607 

— area and population, 908, 951 New Haven (Conn.), 499, 555 

— dependencies, 952 — Yale university, 555 

— government, 951 New Hebrides (Pacific), 298, 908, 

— governor, 951 952 

— occupied by U.S.A. troops, 952 — area and population, 908 



INDEX 1437 

NEW NEW 

New Ireland Is. (New Guinea), 432, New South Wales, education, 370 

433 — factories, 375 

New Jersey, 491, 495, 608 sqq — family endowment act, 371 

— agriculture, 610 — finance, 372, 373 

— area, population and education, — governor, 368 

495, 609, 610 — imports and exports, 359 sqq, 376, 

— finance, 610 377 

— government, 608, 609 — industrial arbitration, 372 

— governor, 609 — inhabited houses, 351 

— production and industry, 610, 611 —justice and crime, 371, 372 

— religion aDd welfare, 610 — local government, 368 

— representation, 491, 609 — mines and minerals, 374, 375 

— universities, 610 — production and industry, 373 sqq 

New Kowloon (China), 106 — railways, 361, 376 

New Mexico, 491, 496, 610 sqq — religion, 370 

— agriculture, 515, 613 — representation, 349, 368 

— area, population and education, — social aid service* 371 

496, 612 — tramways, 362, 376 

— constitution and government, 611, —unemployment relief, 372 

612 — university, 370 

— cotton, 517, 613 —widows' pensions, etc., 371 

— finance, 611, 612, 613 New Territories (Hong Kong), 106 

— governor, 612 Newton (Massachusetts), 588 

— mining, 518, 613 New "Westminster (Brit. Columbia), 

— production and industry, 515,613 329 

— public lands, 515 New York (city), area and pop., 498, 

— religion and welfare, 612 614, 615 

— representation, 491, 612 — federal bank, 531 

— university, 612 — university, 615 

— wheat, 613 New York (state), 491, 495, 613 sqq 

Newnham college, Cambridge, 24 — agriculture, 617 

New Orleans (Louisiana), 498, 580 — area and population, 495, 614, 615 

— university, 581 —constitution and govt., 613, 614 

New Plymouth (N. Zealand), 414 — education, 615, 616 

Newport (Mon.), population, 16 — finance, 616", 617 

Newport (R.I.), 635; naval stn., —governor, 614 

511 — local government, 614 

Newport (Shrops.), college, 24 — naval station, 511 

Newport News (Virginia), 652 — port, 617 

New Providence Island (W.I.), 277 — production, etc., 617 

New Rochelle (N.Y.), 615 — religion and welfare, 616 

New South Wales, 347, 367 sqq (see — representation, 491, 614 

also Australia, Common- — shipping, 528, 529, 617 

wealth) — tobacco, 517 

— agriculture, 373, 374 — universities, 615, 616 

— area and population, 351, 368, 369 New Zealand, 292, 411 sqq 

— banking and credit, 377 — agriculture, 422 

— births, marriages, deaths, 351, 369 — area and population, 413, 414 

— commerce, 359, 360, 376, 377 — civil aviation, 426 

— communications, 361, 362, 376, — commerce, 424 sqq 

377 — customs, 419 sqq 

— constitution and govt., 348, 349, — defence, 420, 421, 422 

367 sqq — dependencies, 413, 427 sqq 



1.438 THE STATESMAX'S TEAR-BOOK, 1945 

NEW 

New Zealand, education, 415, 416 

— finance, 418, 419, 420 

— government and constitution, 411, 

412, 413 

— governor-general, 412 

— justice and crime,, 416 

— mandate, 430 

— Maoris, 412 sqq 

— money and credit, 427 

— navy, 45> 46, 421, 422 

— prime minister, etc., 412 


sqq 

— religion, 415 


426, 427 

— social services, etc., 416 sqq 

— tariff reciprocity with Australia, 

358 


— wool, 424 

Ngotshe (Natal), 458 

Niagara Falls (New York), 615 

Niamey (French "West Africa), 944 

Nicaragua, 1132 sqq 




— constitution and govt., 1132,1133 



— money and banking, 1136. 1337 

— president, 1132 


1135 

— religion, education and justice, 

1133 


1136 

— war against Axis powers, declaration, 

of, 1132 

— wireless stations, 1136 

Nice (France), 887; observatory, 

891 

Nicobar Islands, 114, 141, 142: 

— area and population, 11,4, 142. 

— occupied by Japanese, 142 


Nicosia (Cyprus), 100 

Nictheroy (Brazil), 755 

Nidwalden, see Unterwald 

Nievre (France), de.pt., 885 

Nigde (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

NON 

Niger Colony (French West Africa), 

908, 937, 938, 944 

— area and population, 908, 937,944 



Nigeria, 241 sqq 

— area and population,- 242. 



— constitution, 241, 242 

— education and religion, 243, 244 





Nightingale Island: (Atlantic), 225, 

226 

Niigata (Japan), 1057 

Niihau. Island (Hawaii), 668 

Nikolaev (Ukraine), 1249 

Nikolaiev(U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Nikopol (CJ.S;S.R.), 1230, 1236 

Nile, Blue (Sudan), 255 

Nile district, West (Uganda), 213 

— river, navigation, 258 

Nimes (France), 887 

Ningpo (China), port, 785 

Ningshia (China), 784 

Ningsnia (China), 784 

Ninigo Is. (Pacific), 432 

Nippon, see Japan 

Nish (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Nissan Island (Bismarck Arch.), 432 

Nissau (Solomon Is.), 433 

Nisiro (Mgeav), 1047 

Nistru, (Rumania), 1217 

Nisyros (iEgean), 1047 

Nitra (Czechoslovakia), 830 

Niuatobutabu (Tonga), 299 

Niuchwang, see Newehwang 

Niue Island (Cook.Islands),, 428, 429 

Niuafo'ou (Tonga), 299 

Niulakita (Pacific Is.), 296 

Niutao Island (Pacific Is.), 296 

Nizhninovgorod (now Gorky) 

(U.S.S.R.), 1230, 1232 


Nizhny Tagil (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Nkana (Northern Rhodesia), 240 

Nkata (Nyasaland), 222 

Noginsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Nome (Alaska), 665 ; gold, 666 

Nonouti Island (Pacific), 297 



INDEX 1439 

NOB NOR 

Nord (France), dept., 885 North Dakota, production and iu- 

Nordland (Norway), 1140 dustry, 515, 622, 623 

Nord-Trbndelag (Norway), 1140 — public lands, 515 

Norfolk, 14 — religion, 622 

Norfolk (Virginia), 499, 652 ; naval — representation, 491, 621 

station, 510 — university, 622 

Norfolk Island (Australia), 291 — wheat, 517, 622 

Norrbotten (Sweden), province, 1291 North East Land (Spitsbergen), 1148 

Norristown (Pennsylvania), 632 North Holland (Netherlands), 1112 

Norrkoping (Sweden), 1202 North Island (New Zealand), 413 

Norte de Santander (Colombia), 809 North Providence (Rhode Island), 

North Africa, see Algeria, Cyrenaica, 635 

Tripoli, Tunis, etc. North Sea fisheries (German), 971 

Northam (W. Aust.), 398 North Tonawonda (New York), 615 

Northampton, population, 16 Northern Frontier Prov. District 

Northampton (Mass.), Smith college, (Kenya), 209 

588 Northern Ireland, 5, 73 sqq 

Northamptonshire, 14 —acts concerning, 73 

North Australia (Territory), 406 sqq — area and population, 74, 75 

— administrator, 406 — births, marriages, deaths, 75 

— area and population, 406, 407 — boundary, 73, 74 

— commerce, 408 — communications, 77, 78 

— finance, 407 — constitution, 73, 74 

— government, 406 — education, 75 

— production and industry, 407, 408 —electorate, 5, 6, 73, 74 

North Battleford (Canada), 344 — finance, 76 

North Borneo, British, 91 sqq — governor, 74 

North Brabant (Netherlands); 1112 —justice, 75 

North Carolina, 491, 495, 618 sqq — local government, 74 

— agriculture, 517, 620 — national insurance, 77 

— area and population, 495, 618, — parliament, 74 

619 — production, 76, 77 

— communications, 620 — religion, 75 

— cotton, 517, 620 — representation of the people act, 

— fiducation, 619 75 

— finance, 619, 620 Northern Rhodesia, see Rhodesia, 

— government, 618 Northern 

— governor, 618 Northern Territories (Gold Coast), 

— ports, 527 251 

— production and industry, 517, 620 — area and population, 250 

— religion and welfare, 619 Northern Territory (Australia), 351, 

— representation, 491, 618 406 sqq 

— shipping, 528 — area and population, 351, 406, 407 

— tobacco, 517, 620 — commerce, 408 

— university, 619 —defence, 354 sqq 

North Dakota, 491, 495, 621 eqq — finance, 358, 359, 407 

— agriculture, 515, 622 — government, 406 

— area and pop., 495, 621, 622 — imports and exports, 358 sqq 

— education, religion and welfare, — inhabited houses, 351 

622 —justice, 352 

— finance, 622 —pensions, etc., 351, 352 

— government, 621 production and industry, 407,408 

-— governor, 621 — railways, 362 




NOR NUG 

Northfield (Minnesota), 594 Norway, liberation of parts of 

Northumberland, 14 country, 1140 

North-West Frontier Agencies, etc. — money, weights and measures, 

(India), 177 1148 

North-West Frontier Prov. (India), — pauperism, 1143 

111, 112, 114, 116, 124, 156 — production and industry, 1144 

— area and population, 114, 156 — puppet government of Germany 

— births and deaths, 116 repudiated, 1139 

— education, 157 — schools for Norwegian children in 

—■ finance, 125 the United Kingdom, 1142 

— forests, 130 — shipping, 1146 

— government, 112, 156 —university, 1142 

— governor, 157 Norwich, population, 16 

— justice, 121 Norwood (Ohio), 624 

— land revenue, 124, 129 Nossi-Be Is. (Madagascar), 931 

tenure, 124, 129 Nottingham, pop., 16 

— newspapers, 121 — university college, 24 

— political agencies, etc., 177 Nottinghamshire, 14 

— proclamation by governor, 156 Noumea (New Caledonia), 951 

— religion, 117 — College La Perouse, 951 

North-West Territories (Canada), Nova-Goa (Port. India), 1206 

303, 306, 347 Nova Lisboa (Angola), 1203 

— area and population, 306, 307, Novara (Italy), 1033 

347 Nova Scotia, 303, 335 sqq 

— constitution and government, 306, — agriculture, 314, sqq 337 

347 — area and population, 306, 335 

— religion, 309 — births, marriages, deaths, 307, 335 

Norwalk (Connecticut), 555 — colleges, 336 

Norway, 1137 sqq ' — commerce and communications, 

— agriculture, 1144 337 

— Antarctic Continent Dependency, — constitution and govt., 304, 335 

1149 — crops, 315, 316 

— area and population, 1140, 1141 — dairying, 337 

—• army and air force co-operating — education, 309, 336 

with British, 1144 — finance, 336 

— new.irmy formed in Great Britain, — fruit, 316, 337 

1144 —justice and crime, 336 

— British Minister accredited to — lieut. -governor, 305, 335 

Norwegian govt, in London, — live stock, 316 

1150 — mines and minerals, 316, 317, 337 

— commerce, 1146 — production and industry, 314 sqq, 

— communications, 1147 337 

— constitution and government, — religion, 308 

1138 eqq — representation, 303, 335 

currency, credit and banking, — wheat, 315 

1147, 1148 Novi Sad (Yugoslavia), 1359 

— defence, 1143, 1144 Novocherkassk (TJ.S.S.R.), 1230 

— dependencies, 1148, 1149 Novorossisk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

— education and religion, 1141,1142 Nuble (Chile), province, 774 

— finance, 1143 Nueva Esparta (Venez.), state, 1349 

— invaded by Germany, 1139 Nuevo Leon (Mexico), state, 1087 

justice and crime, 1142 Nuguria (Bismarck Arch.), 432 

— king, 3, 1137 Nuguria Is. (New Ireland), 433 



NUI 

Nui Island (Pacific), 296 

Nukahiva (Oceania), 953 

Nukualofa (Tonga), 299 

Nukufetau Island (Pacific), 296 

Nukulaelae Island (Pacific), 296 

Nukumanu Is. (Solomon Is.), 433 

Nukunauls. (Gilbert Is.), 297 

Nukunono Islands (Pacific), 429 

Nuoro (Italy), 1033 

Nuremberg or Niirnberg (Bavaria), 

960 

Nusa (New Ireland), 432 

Nushki Niabat (Baluchistan), 144 

Nyanza Province (Kenya), 209 

Nyasaland Protectorate, 222 sqg 


— communications, 223, 224 






Nyiregyhaza (Hungary), 1008 

Nykbpiug (Sweden), 1292 

Nyland (Finland), 875 

Nyniegen (Netherlands), 1112 

Oahu (Hawaii), 668 

Oakland (California), 499, 549 

Oak Park Village (111.), 568 

Oaxaca (Mexico), 1087 ; town, 1087 

Obeid, El (A.-E. Sudan), 255 

Oberhausen (Prussia), 960 

Obwalden, see Unterwald 

Occidental section (Paraguay), 1160 

Ocean Island (Pacific), 296 

Oceania (Brit.), 82, 291 sqq 

Oceania (French), 908, 953 sqq 


Odense (Denmark), 838 

Odessa (U.S.S.R.), 1230, 1232, 1249 


Oeno (Pitcairn), 300 

Offaly (Eire), 473 

Ofu Island (Samoa), 683 

Ogasawarajiina (Bonin Is.), 1056 

Ogbomosho (Nigeria), 243 

Ogden (Utah), 647 

Ogdensburg (New York), 615 

O'Higgins (Chile), 774 

Ohio, 491, 495, 623 sqq 

— agriculture, 491, 517, 625 


INDEX 1441 

ONT 

Ohio, education, 624 





625 



— tobacco, 517, 625 


— wheat, 517, 625 

Oil Is. (Mauritius), 221 

Oise (France), dept., 885 

Okayama (Japan), 1057 

Oki (Japan), 1056 

Oklahoma, 491, 496, 626 sqq 

— agriculture, 515, 517, 627, 628 


— cotton, 517, 627 

— education, religion and welfare, 

627 




— mining, 628 

— production and industry, 515, 517, 

627, 628 

— public lands, 515 



, — wheat, 517, 627 

Oklahoma City, 499, 627 

Okmulgee (Oklahoma), 627 

Olafsfjbrdur (Iceland), 1016 

Oldenburg (Germany), 957 

Oldham, population, 16 

Olean (New York), 615 

Olomouc (Czechoslovakia), 830 

Olosega Island (Samoa), 683 

Olt (Rumania), 1217 

Olten (Switzerland), 1306 

Olvmpia (Washington), 654 

Omaha (Nebraska), 499, 602 

Oman (Arabia), 702, 707 

Omdurman (A.-E. Sudan), 255 

Omsk(U.S.S.R.), 1230, 1265 

Omuta (Japan), 1057 

Onotoa Island (Pacific), 297 

Ontario, 302, 337 sqq 

— agriculture, 314 sqq, 339 

— apples, 316 


— births, marriages, deaths, 307 

3 A 




OST 

Ontario, communications, 340 

— constitution and government, 302, 

337, 338 

— crops, 315 sqq 

— dairy output, 816 

— defence, 311 sqq 

— education, 309, 338 

— finance, 310, 338, 339 

— forestry, 340 

— lieutenant-governor, 338 

— live stock, 316, 839 

— mining, 316, 339 

— production and industry, 314 sqq, 

339 

-r- religion, 308 


— tobacco, 316 


— wheat, 315 

Ontong Java Islands (Pacific), 297 

Opland (Norway), 1140 

Opobo (Nigeria), 244 

Oporto (Port.), 1195 

Oradea (Rumania), 1218 

Oran (Algeria), 919 ; town, 919 

Orange (New South Wales), 369 

Orange, East (New Jersey), 609 

Orange Free State Province, 437, 

440, 462 *}} 

— administrator, 463 



— coal, 448 


— constitution and govt., 437 eqq, 

464 

— cotton, 448 




— gold, 448 

— local government, 440 

— minerals, 449 

■— production and industry, 465 

— provincial council, 439 

— railways, 450 

— religion, 463, 464 

— representation, 437 sqq 

— wheat, 447 

Ordjonikidze (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Ordu (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

Orebro (Sweden), 1291 

— town, 1292 

OSH 

Oregon, 491, 496, 628 sqq 


— area, population and education, 

491, 496, 628, 629 











— wheat, 517 

OrekKovo-Zuevo(TJ.S.S.R.), 1230 

Orense (Spain), province, 1275 

Oriental region (Ecuador), 851 

Oriente (Cuba), province, 822 

Orissa (India), 114, 157 sqq 

— area, population and religion, 158 





— finance, 125, 158 

— forests, 130 

—■ governor, 158 


— land revenue, 124, 129 

— newspapers, 121 

—• proclamation by governor, 158 


Orizaba (Mexico), 1087 

Orjonikidze (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Orjonikidzegrad(U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Orkney Isles, population, 18 

Orlando (Florida), 561 

Orleans (France), 887 

Orne (France), dept, 885 

Oro El (Ecuador), province, 852 

Orrefors (Sweden), 1297 

Orsk(U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Orsono (Chile), 774 

Oruro (Bolivia), 746 

— town, 746, 747 


OryolfU.S.S.R.), 1239 

Osaka (Japan), 1057 


Oscarsborg (Norway), fort, 1143 

Oshkosh (Wisconsin), 660 

Oshogbo (Nigeria), 243 



INDEX 1448 

OSL PAL 

Oslo (Norway), formerly Kristiania, 

town, 1140, 1141 


Oslofjord (Norway), fort, 1142, 1143 

OsmaniaUniv. (Hyderabad), 119 

Ossipeosk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Ossyek (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Ostend (Belgium), 730 

Ostergbtland (Sweden), prov., 1290 

Ostersunrt (Sweden), 1292 

Ostfold (Norway), 1140 

Ostpreussen, 958 

Ostrava (Czechoslovakia), 830, 831 

Oswego (New York), 615 

Otago (N.Z.), dist., 414 


Otaru (Japan), 1057 

Ottawa (Canada), 307, 338 


Ottumwa (Iowa), 573 

Otuzco (Peru), cocaine, 1180 

Ouahigourya (Fr. Sudan), 943 

Oudh, see United Provinces 

Oudtshoorn (Cape Colony), 455 

Ouezzan (Morocco), 1099 

Oujda (Morocco), 1099 

Oulgaret (French India), 909 

Oulu (Uleaborg) (Finland), 875 

— town, 876 

Ouolof tribes (Senegal), 937 

Outer Mongolia, 800 

Ovambo race (S.-W. Africa), 466 

Overysel (Netherlands), 1112 

Oviedo (Spain), prov., 1275 

— town, 1276 


Owensboro' (Kentucky), 578 

Oxford, population, 16 


Oxford Home-Students, society of, 

24 ; women's colleges, 24 

Oxfordshire, 14 

Oyapoc (French Guiana), 948, 949 

Oyo (Nigeria), 243 

Paarl (Cape Colony), 455 

Pacelli, Eugenio (Pius XII), 1210 

Pachuca (Moxico), 1087 

Pacific Islands (Br.), 291 aqq, 429 sqq 

■ high commissioner, 295 

Pacidc Islands (French), 908, 947 

sqq 

— area and population, 908, 947 sqq 

Pacific Islands (Japanese mandate), 

1072 

Padang (Neth. East Indies), 1122 

Paderborn (Germany), 962 

Padua or Padova (Italy), 1033 


Padueah (Kentucky), 578 

Paernu (Estonia), see Parnu 

Pago Pago (Samoa), naval station, 682 

Pahang (Fed. Malay St.), 189 sqq 

— ruler, 189 

Pahlavi (Persia) (Iran), 1167, 1170 

Paisley, population, 18 

Paita (New Caledonia), 952 

Pakhoi (China), port, 785 

Palanpur State (India), 178 

Palapye Road (Bechuanaland), 232 

Palasni (India), 171 

Palasvihir (India), 172 

Palau or Pelew Is. (Westn. Carolines), 

430, 1079 

Palawan Is. (Philippines), 676 

Palembang (Netherlands East Indies), 

1121 


Palencia (Spain), province, 1275 

Palermo (Sicily), 1033, 1035 

— town, 1035 


Palestine, 195 sqq 

— administration, 195, 196 


— air mail service, 204 

— antiquities, 199 


— banking and currency, 205 


— commerce, 203, 204 

— communications and shipping, 

204 

— constitution, 195,196 


— finance, 200, 201 

— government, 195, 196 

— high commissioner, 195 

— immigration, 197 

— Jewish agency, 196 

— Jewish colonies, 201, 202 

— justice, 199, 200 


— municipalities, 196 

— national home, Jewish, 195, 196 

— naturalisation of foreigners, 197 




PAL 

Palestine, Ottoman code superseded, 

200 

— posts and telegraphs, 204, 205 

— production and industry, 201 sqq 


— university (Jerusalem), 199 

— weights and measures, etc., 205 

Palitana (India), 179, 180 

Palma (Baleares), 1275 

Palmas, Las (Canary Islands), 1275, 

1284 

Palmerston Island (Cook Is.), 428 

Palmerston North (New Zealand), 

414 

Pamplona (Spain), 1275 

Panama, 1151 sqq 

—."area and population, 1152 

— canal and canal zone, 496, 808, 

1156 sqq 

finance, 1157 

— commerce, 1154, 1155 


— finance, 1153, 1154 


— justice, 1152, 1153 



— proposed new constitution, 1152 

— provisional president, 1152 



— towns, 1152 


— war declared on Axis powers, 

1151, 1152 

— wireless stations, 819 

Panama Canal and Zone, 496, 808, 

1156 sqq 




— indemnity, 808 

Pa-nan (China), 784 

Panay Island (Philippines), 676; 

town, 676 

Pandu (India), 170 

Pandu Mewas (India), 171 

Panevezys (Lithuania), 1258 

Pangim (Goa), 1206 

Panth Piploda (India), 111, 114 

Pantalavdi (India), 171 

Papeete (Tahiti), 963 

Paphos (Cyprus), 100 

PAS 

Papua, Territory of, 291, 408 sqq 


— government, 409 sqq 

— occupation and evacuation by 

Japanese, 409 

Para (Brazil), 755, 758, 759; dockyard, 

758 ; rubber, 759 

Paraguari (Paraguay), dept., 1160 

Paraguay, 1159 sqq 

— acting president, 1160 


— boundary dispute, 1160 



—• constitution and government, 

1159, 1160 


— defence, 1161, 1162 

— language, 1161 

— money and credit, 1164, 1165 

— peace treaty signed, 746, 1160 


1163 


1161 


— war declared on Germany and 

Japan, 1160 

Parahyba (Brazil), 755 ; town, 755 

Parana (Argentina), 714 ; town, 715 

Parana (Brazil), 755 

coal, 759 

Parao (Caroline Is.), 1072 

Pardubice (Czechoslovakia), 830 

Paris (France), 887 sqq 

— faculties, etc., 891 



ParitBuntart Malaya), 187 

Parkersburg (West Virginia), 657 

Parkes (N.S.W.), 369 

Parma (Italy), 1033 

— town, 1036 


Paro (Bhutan), 744 

Parry Island (Cook Islands), 428 

Partabgarh (India), 178 

Pasadena (California), 549 

Pas-de-Calais (France), dept., 885 

Pasir Mas (Malava), 193 

Pasir Puteh (Malaya), 193 

Paso, El (Texas), 644 

Passaic (New Jersey), 609 



INDEX 1445 

PA8 PER 

Passau (Germany), 962 Peniche (Portugal), lace, 1199 

Pasto (Colombia), 809 Pennsylvania, 491, 495, 631 sqq 

— university, 810 — agriculture, 517, 633 

Patagonia (Chile), 778 — area, population and education, 

— coal, 719 491,-495, 631, 632 

Patan (Nepal), 1107 — finance, 633 

Paterson (New Jersey), 499, 609 — government, 631 

Patiala (India), state, 178 —governor, 631 

Patmo (JEgean), 1047 — minerals, 633 

Patmos (jEgean), 1047 — naval yard, 511 

Patna (India), 118, 119, 148 ; univ., — production and industry, 517 sqq, 

119, 148 633 

Patras (Greece), 983 — religion and welfare, 632, 633 

Patriarchs of Antioch, 1317 —representation, 491, 631 

— Constantinople, 984 — tobacco, 517, 633 

— Jerusalem, 198 — universities, 632 

— Serbia, 1360 — wheat, 517, 633 

Patricia (Canada), dist., 338 Penonome (Panama), 1152 

Paucartamho district (Peru), coffee, Penrhyn Island (Cook Islands), 428 

s 1180 Pensacola (Florida), 561 

Paulpietersburg (Natal), 458 — naval air station, 510 

Pavia (Italy), 1033 Pentecost Is. (New Hebrides), 298 

— town, 1035 Penza (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

— university, 1035 Peoria (Illinois), 499, 568 

Pawtucket (Rhode Island), 635 Perak (Fed. Malay State), 189 sqq 

Paynesville (Liberia), 1077 — ruler, 189 

Paysandu (Uruguay), 1342 ; town, Perene District (Peru), cocoa, 1180 ; 

1342 coffee, 1180 

Paz, La (Bolivia), 747; univ., 747 Perim Island (Red Sea), 89 

Pazarjik (Bulgaria), 767 Perlis (Unfed. Malay State), 192 

Pearl Harbor (Hawaii), naval air sqq 

station, 510 ; navy yard, 510 — ruler, 193 

Pe"es (Hungary), 1008; coal, 1011; Perm (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

military dist., 1011 ; univ., Pernambuco (Brazil), 755 

1009 Pernik (Bulgaria), coal mines, 770 

Pedregal (Panama), port, 1152 Peros Banhos Is. (Mauritius), 221 

Pedro Cays (West Indies), 281, 283 Perovo (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Peebles, Scotland. 18 Perpignan (France), 887 

Peekskill (New York), 615 Persia, see Iran 

Peel (Isle of Man), 78 Perth (Scotland), population, 18 

Peian (China), 796 Perth (W. Australia), 398 ; mint, 

Peiping (China), see Peking 363 

Peking (now Peiping) (China), 785, Perth Amboy (New Jersey), 609 

792 Peru, 1175 sqq 

Pelew Is. (Pacific), 430 — agriculture and industry, 1179, 

Pella (Greece), 983 1180 

Peloponesse (Greece), 983 — area and population, 1176, 1177 

Pemba Island (Zanzibar), 215 — boundary treaties and disputes, 

— clove industry, 217 733, 760, 794, 1177 

— wireless station, 218 —commerce, 1181, 1182 

Pembrokeshire, 14 — communications, 1182, 1183 

Penang (Straits Settlements), 184 — constitution and government, 

sqq; Island, 185 1175, 1176 




PER PIS 

Peru, defence, 1179 Philadelphia (Perm.), 498, 632 

— education and justice, 1178 — federal bank, 531 

— finance, 1178, 1179 — naval yard, 510 

—» money and credit, 1183 — port, 527 

— moratorium, 1179 Philippeville (Algeria), 919 

— new constitution, 1175 Philippine Commonwealth, 496 

departments, 1177 675 aqq 

— president, 1176 — area and population, 496, 676 

— religion, 1178 — banking and coinage, 680 

— shipping, 1182 — commerce, 679 

— universities, 1178 — defence, 677 

— weights and measures, 1183, 1184 — education, 677 

Perugia (Italy), 1033 ; town, 1035; — finance, 678 

university, 1035 ■ — government, 675, 676 

Pesaro (Italy), town, 1033 — invaded by Japanese, 675 

Pescadores Islands (Japan), 1056, —justice, 676, 677 

1071 — navy yard, 510 

— area and population, 1056 — new constitution, 675, 676 

Pescara (Italy), 1033 — president, 675 

Peshawar (India), 118, 156, 696 —production and industry, 678, 67ft 

Pesterzsebet (Hungary), 1008 — religion, 677 

Petah Tiqva (Palestine), 197 — shipping, etc., 679 

Petange (Luxemburg), 1083 — university, 677 

Peten (Guatemala), timber, 993 Philippopolis (Bulgaria), 767 

Peterborough, Soke of, 14 Phthiotis (Greece), 983 

Peter I Island (Antarctic), 1149 Phn6m-Penh (Cambodia), 914 

Peter II, king (Yugoslavia), 1355 Phocis (Greece), 983 

Petersburg (Alaska), 665 Phoenix (Arizona), 543 

Petersburg (Virginia), 652 ' Phoenix Islands (Pacific), 296 

Petra (Trans-Jordan), 206 Piacenza (Italy), 1033 

Petrograd (now Leningrad) Piatigorsk(U.S.S.R.), 1230 

(U.S.S.R.), 1230 Piauhy (Brazil), state, 755 

Petroleum, naphtha, natural gas, Pichincha (Ecuador), prov., 852 

and oil-yielding regions— Piedmont (Italy), 1032, 1039 

Argentina, 719 Papua, 410 — mining, 1039 

Azerbaijan, Persia (Iran), —silk culture, 1040 

1252 1170 Pietermaritzburg (Natal). 441, 458 

Bolivia, 749 Peru, 1180 Piet Relief (Swaziland), 235 

Borneo, 91 Poland, 1189 Pilar (Paraguay), dept., 1161 

Canada, 317, Rumania, 1220 Pillzhum (Ecuador), silver, 855 

334 Russia, 1252 Pimpladevi (India), 172 

China, 790 sqq Pimpri (India), 172 

Colombia, 811 Sarawak, 93 Pinar del Rio (Cuba), 822 

Dominican Re- Syria, 1318 — town, 822 

pub., 847 Trinidad, 287 Pine Bluff (Arkansas), 546 

Ecuador, 855 U.S.A., 519, Pines, Isle of (French Pacific), 952 

Gt. Britain, 54 and see Pinkiang (China), 796 

India, 132 states, etc. Piotrkow (Poland), 1187 

Iraq, 1025 Venezuela, Pirasus (Greece), customs, 992 

Mexico, 1090 1351 Pisa (Italy), 1033,1035 ; univ., 1035 

Petropavlovsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 Piscopi (.ffigean), 1047 

Petrovgrad (Yugoslavia), 1359 Pishin (Baluchistan), 144 

Petrozavotsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 | Pistoia (Italy), 1033 



PIT 

Pitcairn Island (Pacific), 300 

Pitesti (Rumania), 1217 

Pittsburg (Kansas), 576 

Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania), 498, 632 

Pittsfield (Massachusetts), 588 

Pitzewo (China), 1072 

Piura (Peru), dept., 1177 ; town, 

1176, 1177 

Pius XII, 1210 

Plauen (Saxony), 960 

Plevna or Pleven (Bulgaria), 767 ; 

town, 767 

Ploesti (Rumania), 1218 

Plovdiv (Bulgaria), district, 767 ; 

town, 767 

Plymouth (Montserrat), 285 

Plymouth, population, 16 

Plzen (Czechoslovakia), 830 

Pocatello (Idaho), 566 

Podoisk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Podrinye (Yugoslavia), antimony, 

1362 

Poicha (India), 172 

Pointe-a-Pitre (Guadeloupe), 947 

Pointe-des-Galets (Reunion), 934 

Pointe-Noire (French Equat. Africa), 

928 

Poitiers (France), univ., 890 

Pola (Italy), 1033 

Poland, 1185 sqq 



— commerce, 1189, 1190 


— Crimea conference and the provisional 

government, 1187 

— currency and banking, 1190 

— defence, new army, 1188 

home army disbanded, 1188 




— invaded by Germany, 1186 


— liberated by Russia, 1186 

— Lublin provisional government, 

1187 

— partition, fourth, 1186 

— port, 1190 


—• production and industry, 1189 



INDEX 1447 

POR 

Poland, social insurance, 1188 

— territory re-gained, 958 


Poltava (U.S.S.R.). 1230 

Poltoratsk (Turkmenistan), 1261 

Polygyros (Greece), 983 

Ponape (Caroline Islands), 1072 

Ponca City (Oklahoma), 627 

Ponce (Porto Rico), 671 

Pondichery (French India), 909 ; 

port, 910 

Ponta Delgada (Portugal), 1195 

Pontevedra (Spain), province, 1275 ; 

wireless station, 1278 

Pontiac (Michigan), 591 

Poona (India), 118, 150 

Poopo, Lake (Bolivia), salt at, 749 

Popayan (Colombia), 808, 809; univ., 

810 

Porbandar (India), 180 

Porlamar (Venezuela), wireless stn., 

1353 

Portage la Prairie (Canada), 331 

Portalegre (Portugal), 1194 

Port Antonio (Jamaica), 281 

Port Arthur (China), 1072 

Port Arthur (Texas), 644 

Port Augusta (S. Australia), 395 

Port-au-Prince (Haiti), 998 sqq 

Port Bell (Uganda), 214 

Port Blair (Andamans), 141 

Port Castries (St. Lucia), 291 

Port Chester (New York), 615 

Port Cornwallis (Andamans), 141 

Port Darwin (N. Territory, Australia), 

407 

Port de Paix (Haiti), 998 

Port Dickson (Fed. Malay States), 

191 

Port Elizabeth (Cape Col.), 441, 

455 

Port Gentil (French Congo), 928 

Port Harcourt (Nigeria), 244, 245 

Port Herald (Nyasaland), 223, 1205 

Port Huron (Michigan), 591 

Portland (Maine), 582 

Portland (Oregon), 499, 629 

Portland, South (Maine), 583 

Port Limon (Costa Rica), 816, 819; 

wireless stn., 819 

Port Louis (Mauritius), 220 

Port Lyautey (Morocco), 1099 

Port Maria (Jamaica), 281 




POR 

Port Moresby (Papua), 409, 410 


Porto (Portugal), 1193 

Porto Alegre (Brazil), 755, 756 ; 

university, 756 

Porto Edda (Albania), 701 

Portobello (Panama), 1152 

Porto Maurizio (Italy), see Imperia 

Port of Spain (Trinidad), 286 

Port Keitz (Kenya), 212 

Port Said (Egypt), 860, 861, 868 

Portsmouth, population, 16 

Portsmouth (New Hampshire), 607 

navy yard, 510 

Treaty of, 1056 

Portsmouth (Ohio), 624 

Portsmouth (Virginia), 652 

Port Sudan (A. -E. Sudan), 255, 258 ; 

salt, 257 

Port Swettenham (Fed. Malay 

States), 191 

Port Tudor (Kenya), 212 

Port Weld (Fed. Malay States), 191 

Portugal, 1192 sqq 



1195 

— banking, money, weights and 

measures, 1200, 1201 

— colonies and dependencies, 1202 

sqq 

— commerce, 1199, 1200 

— constitution, 1192, 1193 

— defence, 1197, 1198 

— education, 1195, 1196 

— finance, 1196, 1197 


— new concordat with Vatican, 

1195 



1199 




Portuguesa (Venezuela), state, 1349 

Portuguese Africa, 1202 sqq (see also 

Angola and Mozambique) 

— area and population, 1202 sqq 

— Asia, 1202 sqq 

area and population, 1202 sqq 

— China, 1202 

area and population, 1202 

PRI 

Portuguese India, 1202 sqq 

j- area and population, 1202 sqq 

— Oceania, 1202 

area and population, 1202 

Posadas (Argentina), 714 

Posen or Poznan (Poland), town, 118? 

Posen (Prussia), territory ceded, 958 

Potchefstroom (Transvaal), 460 ; 

univ. coll., 443 

Potenza (Italy), 1033 

Poti (Georgia), 1254 

Potosi (Bolivia), 746, 747 

— town, 747 


Potsdam (Prussia), 960 

Poughkeepsie (New York), 615 

Poznan (Poland) town, 1187 (see also 

Posen) 

Prague (Czechoslovakia), 831 

univ., 830 

Praha (Czechoslovakia), 831 

univ., 830 

Prahova (Rumania), petrol, 1220 

Praia (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

Praslin Is. (Seychelles), 226 

Piasov (Rumania), 1217 

Pratap Singh Malvendra Bahadur, 

ruler (Nabha), 178 

Pratapsingh, Shri, ruler (Kolhapur), 

175 

Pfesov (Czechoslovakia), 830 

Presburg (Czechoslovakia), see 

Bratislava 

Preston, population, 16 

Pretoria (Transvaal), 441, 460 


Preveza (Greece), 983 ; town, 983 

Pribilof Islands (Alaska), seal 

fisheries, 666 

Prince Albert (Canada), 344 

Prince Charles Foreland (Spitsbergen), 

1148 

Prince Edward Island, 303, 306, 308, 

339 sqq 

— agriculture, 315 nqq, 340 


— births, marriages, deaths, 308 

— commerce and communications, 

341 


339 

— crops, 315 sqq, 341 




PRI 

Prince Edward Island, finance, 340 

— legislative assembly, 839 

— lieutenant-governor, 339 


sqq 

— religion, 308, 340 


— wheat, 315 

Prince George (B. Columbia), 329 

Prince Rupert (British Columbia), 

329 

Princeton University (N.J.),-610 

Principe Is. (Portugal), 1202, 1203 


Prokopyevsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Prostejov (Czechoslovakia), 830 

Protectorates, British, 82 

Providence (Rhode Is.), 499, 635 

Providence Island (Seychelles), 226 

Province Wellesley (Penang), 185 


Provo (Utah), 647 

Prussia, 957 sqq 


— coal, 970 

— iron and steel, 970 

— live stock, 970 

— manufactures, 971 sqq 


sqq 

— territory lost, 958 

— universities, 962, 963 

Prussia, East, 958 

territory ceded, 958 

— West, 958 

territory ceded, 958 

Prut (Rumania), 1217 

Przemys'l (Poland), town, 1187 

Pskov (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Pudukkottai state (India), 176 

Puebla (Mexico), 1087; town, 1087 

Pueblo (Colorado), 552 

Pueblo Indians (New Mexico), 612 

Puerto Armuelles (Panama), 1152 

Puerto Ayacucho (Venezuela), 1349; 


Puerto Barrios (Guatemala), 995 ; 


Puerto Cabello (Venezuela), wireless 

station, 1353 

Puerto Cabezas (Nicaragua), port, 

1136 

Puerto Carreflo (Colombia), 809 

INDEX 1449 

PUN 

Puerto Cortez (Honduras), 1002 

Puerto Montt (Chile), wireless 

station, 780 

Puerto Mutis (Panama), 1152 

Puerto Plata (Dominican Repub.), 

845 

Puerto Rico, 670 sqq 

— area,' population and education, 

496, 671 

■— customs district, 528 


— finance, 671, 672 



— production, industry and commerce, 

672 

— representation, 671 



Puerto Sal (Honduras), coconuts, 

1003 

Puertoviejo (Ecuador), 852 

Puget Sound (Washington), naval 

station, 510 

Pukapuka 1. (Cook Islands), 428 

Pulautien (China), 1072 

Pulo Cambing (Timor), 1206 

Pulo Jako (Timor), 1206 

Punakha (Bhutan), 744 

Punjab, 114,159 sqq 


— area, population and religion, 

117, 159 


— commerce, etc., 160 



— factories, 161 

— finance, 125, 161 


—•government and constitution, 108 

sqq, 159 



— land revenue, 124, 129, 160 

tenure, 129 

— native states, 114 

— newspapers, etc., 121 


— Teligion, 117, 159 

— tea, 130 


Punjab Hill (India), 114 

3 A 2 




PUN RAB 

Punjab States, 114, 177 Quebec, wheat, 315, 343 

— rulers, 177 — wool, 343 

Puno (Peru), dept., 1177 ; town, Quebec (town), 307, 342 

1177 Queens (New York), 498, 615 

Punta Arenas (now Magallanes) Queen's university (Belfast), 75 

(Chile), 775, 780 Queen's university (Ontario), 338 

Punta Lobos (Peru), guano, 1180 Queensland (Australia), 347, 351, 

Puntarenas (Costa Rica), prov., 816 ; 384 sqq (see also Australia, 

town, 817 Commonwealth) 

Putumayo prov. (Colombia), 809 — agriculture, 388 

Puy-de-D6me (France), dept., 885 — area and population, 351, 386 

Pyeng-Yang (Korea), 1067 — banks, 390 

Pygmies (Uganda), 213 — births, marriages, deaths, 386 

Pyrenees, Basses-(France), dept., 885 — charities, pensions, etc., 387 

Pyrenees, Hautes-(France),dept,885 —commerce and shipping, 389, 390 

Pyre'ntes-Orientales (France), dept., — constitution and government, 384, 

885 385 

Pyrgos (Greece), 983 — education, 387 


Qacha's Nek (Basutoland), 230 —governor, 385 

Qalyubiya (Egypt), 861 — inhabited houses, 351 

Qasim (Arabia), 700 — justice and crime, 387 

Qatar (Arabia), 709 — production and industry, 388, 389 

— sheikh, 709 — railways, 361 

Qena (Egypt), 861 ; town, 861 — religion, 387 

Quang-nam mines (Annam), 913 — representation, 349, 385 

Quarryville (New Brunswick), 334 — university, 387 

Quebec, 302, 342 sqq Queenstown (Cape Province), 455 

— agriculture, 314 sqq, 343 Quelimane (Port. East Africa), port, 

— apples, 316 1205 

— area and population, 306, 342 Que Que (8. Rhodesia), 237 

— births, marriages, deaths, 307 Querftaro(Mexico),1087; town, 1087; 

— constitution and government, opals, 1090 

302, 303, 341, 342 Quetta (Baluchistan), 144 

— commerce and communications, — staff college, 144 

343 Quezaltenango (Guatemala), 992 ; 

— crops, 315, 316, 343 wireless stn., 1005 

— dairying, 316 Quflat Al Udhr (Yemen), 706 

— education, 309, 342 Quibdo (Colombia), 809 

— finance, 310, 311, 342, 343 Quilicura (Chile), wireless stn., 7S0 

— forests, 343 j Quiney (Massachusetts), 588 

— fruit, 316 » / Quintana Roo (Mexico), state, 1087 

— fur farms, 343 ' Quiquio (Paraguay), mines, 1163 

— legislature, 303 sqq, 341,342 Quisqueya Is. (Dominican Repub.), 

— lieutenant-governor, 341 845 

— live stock, 316 Quito (Ecuador), 852 ; univ., 852 

— mining and minerals, 316, 343 Quittah (Gold Coast), see Keta 

— production and industry, 314 sqq, Quiyndy (Paraguay), dept., 1160 

343 • Qunfuda (Hejaz), port, 704 

— religion, 308 Quthing (Basutoland), 230 

— representation, 304 sqq, 341 

— tobacco, 316 Rabat (Morocco), 1099 

— universities, 342 Rabaul (New Britain), 432 



BAB 

Rabbit Island, 1329 

Rabigh (Hejaz), 705 

Racine (Wisconsin), 660 

Radhanpur (India), 179, 180 

Radnorshire, 14 

Radom (Poland), 1187 

Ragusa (Italy), 1033 

Raiatea I. (French Oceania), 953 

Raika (India), 172 

Raipur (India), 152 

Raivavae Is. (French Oceania), 953 

Rajkot (India), 179, 180 

Rajpipla (India), 167, 170 

Rajpur (India), 172 

Rajputana (India), area, etc., 178 

— native states, 114, 178 

Rakahanga Island (Cook Is.), 428 

Raleigh (North Carolina), 619 

Ralick Is. (Pacific), 1072 

Ramie (Palestine), 197 

Rampur (India), 173 

Rampura (India), 171 

Ramsey (Isle of Man), 78 

Ranchi (India), 148 

Randers (Denmark), 838 

Rangoon (Burma), 181, 182 ; univ., 

182 

Rapa Island (French Pacific), 953 

Rapid City (S. Dakota), 639 

Rarotonga Island (Cook Islands), 

428 


Ras Gharib (Egypt), 868 

Rashin (Korea), 1069 

Raso Is. (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

Ravenna (Italy), 1033 

Rawa (Solomon Is.), 433 

Rawalpindi (India), 118, 159 

Rawson (Argentina), 714 

Reading, pop., 16 ; university, 24 

Reading (Pennsylvania), 499, 632 

Recife (Brazil), 755 

Red Deer (Canada), 326 

Redonda Is. (West Indies), 284 

Regensbnrg (Bavaria), 962; college, 

962 

Reggio di Calabria (Italy), 1033 

Reggio Emilia (Italy), 1033 

Regiao da Seira dos Aimores (Brazil), 

755 

Regina (Canada), 307, 344 

Regina (Guiana), 956 

Rei Is. (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

INDEX 1451 

BHO 

Reims (France), 887 

Reirson(Cook Is.), 428 

Reitz, port (Kenya), 212 

Rejaf (Uganda), 214 

Rejang river (Sarawak), 93 

Remseheid (Prussia), 960 

Rendova Island (Pacific), 297 

Renfrew (Scotland), 18 

Rengan (India), 171 

Renkuni (Netherlands), 1112 

Rennell Island (Pacific), 297 

Rennes (France), 887 ; agric. school, 

892; univ., 890 

Reno (Nevada),605 

Resht (Persia) (Iran), 1167 

Resistencia (Argentina), 714 

Rethymno (Greece), 983; town, 

983 

Reunion Is., 908, 934, 935 




— governor, 935 i 

— landing of Fighting French troops, 

935 



Rewa (India), state, 167 

Rewa Kantha Agency (India), 171, 

172 

Reykjavik (Iceland), 1016; univ., 

1017 

Rezekne (Latvia), 1257 

Rheden (Netherlands), 1112 

Rheims, see Reims 

Rheinfelden (Switzerland), 1311 

Rhin, Bas (France), dept., 885 

Rhin, Haut (France), dept., 858 

Rhode Island, 491, 495, 634 aqq 







— ports, 527 






Rhodes (jEgean), 1047, 1048 

Rhodes univ. coll. (S. Africa), 443 




RHO BOS 

Rhodesia, 235 sqq Rio Negro (Argentina), terr., 714 

— Northern, 239, sqq Rio Negro (Uruguay), 1342 

agriculture, 240 Rios, Los (Ecuador), 852 

area and population, 240 Ripley agricultural college, 24 

communications, 240 Ritchie Archipelago (Andamans), 141 

education, 240 Riukiu Islands (Japan), 1056 

government, 239 Rivera (Uruguay), 1342 

governor, 240 River Cess (Liberia), 1077 

production, 240 Riyadh (Arabia), oasis, 702 ; town, 

— Southern, 235 sqq 704 

agriculture, 238 Eize (Turkey), 1330 

area and population, 236 Road Town (Virgin Islands), 286 

commerce, 238 Roanoke (Virginia), 652 

communications, 239 Roatan (Honduras), 1002 

education, 237 Robertsport (Liberia), 1077 

finance, 237 Rocha (Uruguay), 1342 ; town, 1342 

government, 235, 236 Rochdale, population, 16 

governor, 236 Rochester (New Hampshire), 607 

justice, 237 Rochester (New York), 498, 615 

mining, 238 Rockford (Illinois), 568 

production, 238 Rockhampton (Queensland), 386 

Rhodope (Greece), 983 Rocktown (Liberia), 1077 

Rhondda, population, 16 Rodi (Rhodes) (JEgean), 1047 

Rhone (France), dept., 885 Rodrigues Is. (Mauritius), 221 

Rhone Valley forts (Swiss), 1310 Rogaland (Norway), 1140 

Riau-Lingga Archipelago (Neth. Roma (Italy), 1034 j governor, 1032; 

Indies), 1121 univ., 1035 (see also Rome) 

— area and population, 1121 Romania (Rumania), 1215 sqq 

Riberalta (Bolivia), 746 Rombo Is. (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

Richmond (New York), 498, 615 Rome (Italy), 1034, 1035 ; univ., 

Richmond (Virginia), 499, 651, 652 1035 

federal bank, 531 Rome (see and church of), 1209 sqq 

Richmond Bay (Prince Edward area and population, 1209 

Island), oysters, 340 concordat with Italy (1929), 

Rieti (Italy), 1033 1209 

Rift Valley province (Kenya), 209 currency, 1212 

Riga (Latvia), 1257 ' sacred college of cardinals, 1211 

Rimatara Is. (French Oceania), 953 sqq 

Riobamba (Ecuador), 852 congregations, 12*12 

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), 755, 758, 761 supreme pontiff, 1210 

— coffee, 758 Rome (New York), 615 

— education, 756 Rong-pa, see Lepcha 

— naval dockyard, 758 Ronongo Island (Pacific), 297 

— port, 761 Ronse (Belgium), 730 

— production, 758, 759 Roodeport-Maraisburg (Trnsvl.), 460 

— town, 755 Rooseudaal (Netherlands), 1112 

— university, 756 Roosevelt, Franklin Delano, presi- 

Rio de Oro (Sp. Af.), 1284 dent (U.S.A.), 488 

— area and population, 1284 Rorschach (Switzerland), 1306 

Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil), 755 Rosario (Argentina), 715 

Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), 755; Roscommon (Eire), 474 

coal, 759 ; education, 756 Rose Island (Western Samoa), 434 

Rioja, La (Argentina), prov., 714, 719 Roseau (Dominica), 290 



ROS 

Eosetta (Egypt), 861 

Ross and Cromarty, Scotland, 18 

Ross Dependency (N.Z.), 427 

Rosslare (Eire), port, 480 

Rostock (Mecklenburg), 960, 963 


Rostov-on-Don (U.S.S.R.), 1230, 

1247 

Roswell (New Mexico), 612 

Rotherham, population, 16 

Rotterdam (Netherlands), 1112, 1113 

— school of commerce, 1112 

Rotuma Island (Fiji), 293 

Roubaix (France), 887 

Rouen (France), 887 

Roulers (Belgium). 730 

Rovigo (Italy), 1034 

Roxburgh, Scotland, 18 

Royal Holloway college, Egham, 24 

Royal Oak (Michigan), 591 

Royesville (Liberia), 1077 

Ruanda-Urundi (Belg. Congo), 260, 

742 

Rubber-producing regions— 

Andaman Is., Colombia, 811 

141 French Cols., 

Annam, 916 912,914,928, 

Belgian Congo, 932, 941 

739 Gold Coast, 250 

Bolivia, 749 Liberia, 1078 

Brazil, 759 Madagascar, 932 

British Borneo, Malay States, 

91 193 

British Guiana, N.E.I., 1124 

270 Nicaragua,1135 

Brit. Solomon Panama, 1154 

Islands, 298 Philippine Is., 

Cambodia, 914 676 

Ceylon, 97 Thailand, 1323 

Cochin China, Venezuela, 1351 

912 W. Africa, 250 

Rufisque (Senegal), 947 

Rumania, 1215 sqq 



— armistice with Russia, 1216 

— banking, etc., 1222, 1223 



1216, 1217 

— defence, 1219, 1220 


— king, 1215 

INDEX 1453 

BUS 

Rumania, local government, 1217 


1221 

— radio stations, 1222 


1218,1219 

— restoration of territory to Russia, 

1216 

— shipping, etc., 1221, 1222 

— war record, 1216 

Rumelia, Eastern, 765 

Rupert's Land (Canada), 302 

Rurutu Island (French Pacific), 953 

Ruschuk (Russe) (Bulgaria), town, 

767 

Russe (Bulgaria), 767 

Russell Island (Pacific), 297 

Russia (Soviet Federated Socialist 

Republic) (Union of Soviet 

Socialist Republics), 1224 sqq 

— agriculture, 1237 sqq 


— army, 1234,1235, 1236 

— autonomous regions, 1229 sqq 

— autonomous republics, 1225 sqq 

■— banking, 1241 

— central executive committee, 1228 

sqq 

— commerce, 1239 sqq 


— communist party, general secretary, 

1228 


1224 sqq 

— congress of Soviets, 1225 sqq 

— constituent republics, 1225 sqq 

— defence, 1234 sqq 

— education, 1231 sqq 


— invasion by Germany, 1229 

— justice and crime, 1232 sqq 

— money, weights and measures," 

1242 

— navy, 1236, 1237 

— people's commissars, 1227 sqq 


sqq 

— release from German rule, 1229 



— state committee of defence, 

establishment of a, 1227 




1454 THE STATESMAN'S TEAB-BOOK, 1945 

EUS ST. 

Russia, White (Soviet Socialist Re- St. George (New Brunswick), quarpublic), 

1229, 1251, 1252 ries, 334 

— agriculture, 1252 St. George's (Grenada), wireless stn., 

— area and population, 1251 289 

— universities, 1252 St. Gilles (Brussels), 730 

Ruthenia (Czechoslovakia), 829 St. Gothard(Switzerland),fort., 1309 

— area and population, 829 St. Helena (Atlantic), 224 sqq 

— education, 830 — area and population, 224 

Rutlandshire, 14 — education, 224 

Rutland (Vermont), 650 — government, 224 

Ryazan (U.S.S.R.), 1230 —governor, 224 

Rybinsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 —production, 225 

Ryburg (Switzerland), 1311 St. Helens, population, 16 

Rzhev (U.S.S.R.), 1230 St. Hilda's college, Oxford, 24 

St. Hugh's college, Oxford, 24 

Saarbriicken (Germany), 980 St. Jean (Brussels), 730 

Saarland (Germany), 957 St. John (Antigua), 285 

Saba (Yemen), 706 St. John (Canada), 307, 333 

Saba Island (Neth. W.I.), 1129 St. John (Virgin Is., U.S.A.), 674 

Sabadell (Spain), 1275 St. John's (Newfoundland), 275 

Sacavem (Portugal), 1198 St. John's Cape (Newfoundland), 

Sachin (India), 167, 170 277 

Sacramento (California), 499, 549 St. Joseph (Missouri), 598 

Sada (Yemen), 706 St. Joseph's college (New Bruns- 

Sa da Bandeira (Angola), 1203 wick), 333 

Sado Islands (Japan), 1056 St. Josse-ten-Noode (Brussels), 730 

Sae Is. (Bismarck Archipelago), 432 St. Kitts Island (West Indies), 284, 

Safad (Palestine), 197 285 

Safaga (Egypt), port, 868 St. Laurent-du-Maroni (F. Guiana), 

Sam (Morocco), 1099 948 

Sagauli, Treaty of (Nepal), 1106 St. Louis (Missouri), 498, 598 

Saginaw (Michigan), 591 — federal bank, 531 

Sahara, 924 St. Louis (Reunion), 934 

— Spanish, 1284 St. Louis (Senegal), 939 

Saharan Oases (Algeria), 918 St. Lucia Island (West Indies), 288, 

Saharanpur (India), 118, 163 289, 290 

Saigon (Cochin-China), 911 — site leased to the U.S.A., 290 

St. Andrews University, 24 St. Luiz (Brazil), 755 

St. Ann's Bay (Jamaica), 281 St. Marie Island (Madagascar), 931 

St. Barthelemy Is. (Guadeloupe), 947 St. Martin Is. (Curacaco), 1129 

St. Benoit(Reunion), 934 St. Martin Island (Guadeloupe), 

St. Boniface (Canada), 331 947 

St. Brandon Is. (Mauritius), 221 St. Mary Island (Gambia), 246 

St. Christopher, see St. Kitts St. Maure des Fosses (France), 887 

St. Croix (Virgin Is., U.S.A.), 674 St. Maurice (Switzerland), fort, 1309 

St. Cyr (France), mil, school, 892 St. Michel (Finland), 875 

St. Denis (France), 887 St. Nicolas (Belgium), 730 

St. Denis (Reunion), 934 St. Ouen (France), 887 

St. Etienne (France), 887 St. Paul (Minnesota), 499, 593, 594 

St. Eustatius Is. (Curacao), 1129 St. Paul (Reunion), 934 

St. Francois Island (Seychelles), 226 St. Petersburg, see Leningrad 

St. Gallen (Switz.), 1303, 1305; St. Petersburg (Florida), 561 

town, 1306 St. Pierre (Reunion), 934 



INDEX 1455 

ST. SAN 

St. Pierre and Miquelon Is. (French Salvador, president, 1267 

America), 908, 950 — production, 1268 

— area and population, 908, 950 — religion, education and justice, 

— governor, 950 1267 

St. Pierre Island (Seychelles), 226 — shipping and communications, 

SanSalvadorIsland(WestIndies),278 1269 

St. Thomas (Virgin Is., U.S.A.), — university, 1267 

673, 674 ; wireless station, 672 — wireless station, 1269 

St. Vincent Is. (West Indies), 288, Saraar Is. (Philippine Islands), 

289 676 

Saintes, Les, Is. (Guadeloupe), 947 Samara (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Saipan (Marianne Is.), 1072 Samarai (Papua), 409 

Saiyid Said bin Taimur, sultan — wireless station, 410 

(Oman), 707 Samarang (Java), 1122 

Sakai (Japan), 1057 Samarkand (Uzbekistan), 1230, 1261 

Sakaka (Nejd), 704 Samoa, Territory of Western (late 

Sakalava race (Madagascar), 931 German Samoa), 291, 430, 434, 

Sakhalin (Japanese), 1056, 1071 435 

— area and population, 1056, 1071 — administration, 434, 435 

Salaga (Gold Coast), 250 — area and population, 434, 435 

Salamaua (N.E. New Guinea), 431 Samoan Islands (American), 496, 

Salamanca (Spain), 1275; town, 1275, 682, 683 

1276 ; university, 1276 — area and population, 496, 683 

Sal and Boa Vista Is. (Cape Verde — naval yard, 510 

Is.), 1202 Samos (Greece), 983 

Sale" (Morocco), 1099 Samshui (China), port, 785 

Sale (Victoria), 379 Sarnsun (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 ; 

Salem (India), 118, 154 town, 1330 

Salem (Oregon), 629 San'a (Yemen), 706 

Salerno (Italy), 1034 San Andres (Colombia), 809 

Salford, population, 16 San Antonio (Texas), 499, 644 

Salirua (Nyasaland), 222 San Antonio de los Cobres (Arg.), 

Salina (Kansas), 576 ; univ., 576 714 

Salisbury (Maryland), 585 San Carlos (Venezuela), 1349 

Salisbury (Rhodesia), 237, 1205 San Cristobal (Ecuador), 852 

Salonika (Thessaloniki) (Greece), 983, San Cristobal (Venezuela), 1349; 

984 ; free zone, 984 ; town, wireless station, 1353 

983, 984 San Cristoval Island (Pacific), 297 

Salote, queen (Tonga), 299 Sancti Spiritus (Cuba), 822 

Salta (Argentina), 714 Sandakan (Borneo), 91 

Saltillo (Mexico), 1087 Sandema (Gold Coast), 250 

Salt Lake City (Utah), 499, 647 San Diego (California), 499, 512, 

Salto (Uruguay), 1342 ; town, 1342 549 

Salvador, 1267 sqq — naval station, 510 

— agriculture, 1268 Sandusky (Ohio), 624 

— area and population, 1267 Sandviken (Sweden), 1292 ; iron, 

— commerce, 1269 1296 

— constitution and government, Sandwich Islands (N. Pacific), see 

1267 Hawaii 

— defence, 1268 Sandwich Islands (S. Atlantic), 267, 

— finance, 1268 298 

■— money, weights and measures, San Felipe (Venezuela), 1349 

1269, 1270 San Fernando (Venezuela), 1349 




SAN 

San Francisco (California), 498, 549, 

551 

— federal bank, 531 

— trade and port, 551 

San Franciscode Macoris (Dominican 

Repub.), 845 

San Giovanni di Medua (Albania), 701 

San Ignacio (Paraguay), dept., 1160 

Sanjeli (India), 171 

San Jos6 (California), 549 

(Costa Rica), 816; town, 817 

(Guatemala), port, 995 

(Uruguay), 1342 ; town, 1342 

San Juan (Argentina), 714; mines, 

719 

San'Juan (Porto Rico), 671 

San Juan (Venezuela), 1349 

San Juan del Norte (Nicaragua), 

port, 1136 

San Juan del Sur (Nicaragua), port, 

1136 

Sankiang (China), 796 

San Luis (Argentina), 714 

San Luis Potosi (Mexico), 1087 

San Marino, 1271 ; frontier, 1271 


San Martin (Peru), dept., 1177 

San Miguel (Paraguay), copper, 1163 

(Salvador), 1267 

San Pedro (Paraguay), dept., 1160 

San Pedro de Macoris (Dominican 

Repub.), town, 845 

San Pedro Sula (Honduras), 1002 

San Salvador (Bahamas), 278 

San Salvador (Salvador), 1267 

Sansane-Mangu (Togo), 945 

San Sebastian (Spain), 1275 

San Tome Is. (Portug. Africa), 1202, 

1203 



Sant (India), 167, 170 

Santa Ana (Salvador), 1267 

Santa Barbara (Honduras), 1004 

Santa Catharina (Brazil), 755, 759 ; 


Santa Clara (Cuba), 822; town, 

822 

Santa Cruz (Argentina), 714 

(Bolivia), 746; town, 746 

Islands (Pacific), 297 

Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canaries), 

1276, 1284 

SAR 

Santa Elana Peninsula (Ecuador), 

oil, 854 

Santa Fe (Argentina), prov., 714, 

718 ; town, 715 ; university, 

715 

Santa Fe (New Mexico), 612 

Santa Isabel (Fernando Po), 1285 

Santa Luzia Is. (Cape Verde Is.), 

1202 

Santa Marta (Colombia), 809 

Santander (Colombia), provs., 809 

Santander (Spain), prov., 1275 

town, 1275 

Santarem (Portugal), 1194 

Santa Rosa (Argentine), 714 

(Honduras), 1002 

Santiago (Chile), 774, 780 

— town, 775, 780 

Santiago (Panama), 1152 

Santiago (Spain), 1275, 1276 


Santiago de Cuba, 822 

Santiago del Estero (Argentina), 

714; town, 715 

Santiago de los Oaballeros( Dominican 

Repub.), town, 845 ; wireless 

station, 848 ' 

Sant 'Iago Is. (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

Santiago-Zamora (Ecuador), 852 

Santo Domingo (now Ciudad Trujillo) 

(Dominican Repub.), 845; 


Santo Tomas (Philippines), univ., 

677 

Santos, Los (Panama), 1152 

Santuao (China), port, 785 

San Vicente (Salvador), 1267 

Sao Antao (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

Sao Jorge (Port. India), 1206 

Sao Luiz (Brazil), 755 

Sa6ne-et-Loire (France), dept., 885 

Safine, Haute (France), dept., 885 

Sao Nicolau (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

Sao Paulo (Brazil), 765, coffee, 758 ; 

education, 756; town, 755, 756 

Sao Paulo de Loanda (Port. "West 

Africa), 1203 

Saorstat Eireann, see Eire 

Sao Salvador (Brazil), 765 

Sao Vicente (Cape Verde Is.), 1202 

Sapele (Nigeria), 244 

Sapporo (Japan), 1057 

Saraburi (Thailand), 1321 



INDEX 1457 

SAR SCO 

Sarande (Albania), 701 Savannah (Georgia), port, 565 

Saratok (Sarawak), 93 Savanna la Mar (Jamaica), 281 

Saratov(U.S.S.R.), town, 1230 ; uni- Save (Dahomey), 942 

versity, 1232 Savoie (France), dept., 885 

Sarawak (Borneo), 93 ; area and Savoie, Haute (France), dept., 885 \\ 

population, 93; occupied by Savona (Italy), 1034 ... 

Japanese, 93; trade, 93; Savusavu (Fiji), wireless station, 

wireless stations, 93 295 

Sarajevo (Yugoslavia), 1359 Sawai Man Singh Bahadur, [ruler 

Sardinia, 1032, 1039 ; raining, 1039 (Jaipur), 179 

Sarikei (Sarawak), 93 Saxony, 957 

Sark and Brechou, government, 79 — area and population, 957 

— occupied by Germany, 79 — coal, 970 

— population, 19 Sayam, see Siam 

Sarpsborg (Norway), 1141 Scarborough, population, 16 

Sarthe (France), dept., 885 Scarpanto (iEgean), 1047 

Saseho (Japan), 1057; naval sta., Schaerbeek (Brussels), 730 

1062; shipyard, 1062 Schaffhausen (Switzerland), 1303, 

Saseno, Island of, 1049 1305 

Saskatchewan (Canada), 302, 303, — town, 1306 

314, 345 sqq Schaumburg-Lippe, 957 

— agriculture, 315 sqq, 345 — area and population, 957 

— area and population, 306, 307, 344 Schellenberg (Liechtenstein), 1081 

— births, marriages and deaths, 307 Schenectady (N.Y.), 615 

— communications, 345 Schiedam (Netherlands), 1112 

— constitution and government, 344 Schlesien, see Silesia 

— crops, 315 sqq, 345 Schleswig (Slesvig), 837 

— education, 309, 344 Schouten Is. (New Guinea), 431 

— finance, 345 Schweitz, see Switzerland 

— legislative assembly, 344 Schweizerhalle (Switzerland), salt, 

— lieutenant-governor, 344 1311 

— live stock, 316 Schwyz (Swiss canton), 1303, 1305 

— mining, 345 Scotland, agricultural holdings, 64 

— police, 313 — agriculture, 53 sqq 

— production and industry, 315 sqq, —area, 11, 17, 18, 53 sqq 

345 — births, marriages and deaths, 20 

— religion, 308 — burghs, 11, 18 

— representation, 303, 344 — canals, 69 

— university, 344 — cities and towns, 18 

— wheat, 315, 345 — councils, 11 

Saskatoon (Canada), 307, 344 — counties, 18 

Sassandra (Ivory Coast), 941 — criminals, 28, 29 

Sassari (Italy), 1034, 1035; uni- — crops, 52 sqq 

versity, 1035 — education, agricultural, 53 

Sasstown (Liberia), 1077 elementary, 25, 26 

Satu Mare (Rumania), 1218 secondary, 25 

Saudi Arabia, 703 sqq ; king, 703; university, 23, 24 

break with Axis powers, 704 — electorate, 5, 6 

Saugor (India), 152 —fisheries, 55 

Saumur (France), 892 — houses, 19 

Savage, or Niue Is. (Pacific), 428 — illegitimacy, 19 

Savaii (Western Samoa), 434 — justice and crime, 28, 29 

Savannah (Georgia), 563 — language, 12 




SCO 

Scotland, local government, 11 

taxation, 39, 40, 41 

— national insurance, 29 sqq 

— parish and other councils, 11 

— parliamentary representation, 5, 6 

— pauperism, 36, 37 

— police, 28 

— population, 17 sqq 

burghs, 18 

counties, 17 

— post office savings hank, 72 

— property assessed, 40 



— wheat, 53 

Seranton (Pennsylvania), 499, 632 

Scutari (Albania), 699 

Seattle (Washington), 498, 655 

Sebasteia, see Sivas 

Sebastopol (O.S.S.R.), 1230; dockyard, 

1236 

Sedalia (Missouri), 598 

Segboru^ (Dahomey), 942 

Segou (French West Africa), 943 

Segovia (Spain), province, 1275 

Seine (France), dept., 885 

Seine-et-Marne (France), dept., 885 

Seine-et-Oise (France), dept., 885 

Seine-Inferieure (France), dept., 885 

Seishin (Korea), poit, 1069 

Sekia el Hamra (Spanish Sahara), 

1284 

Sekondi (Gold Coast), 247 

Selalang (Sarawak), 93 

Selangor (Fed. Malay States), 189 

— area and population. It0 

— ruler, 189 

Selebes (Celebes) (Neth. E. Indies), 

1121 


Selkirk, Scotland, 18 

Selukwe (S. Rhodesia), 237 

Semipalatinsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230,1260 

Sendai (Japan), 1057 

Senegal, 908, 936, 937, 938, 939, 940 


939 



Senta (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Seoul (Korea), 1067, 1069 ; port, 

1069 

Seraing (Belgium), 730 

SHA 

Serbia (Yugoslavia), 1356 sqq 

— Germans expelled by Russians, 

1357 

— invaded by Germany, 1357 

Sergipe (Brazil), 755 

Sergo (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Serowe (Becliuanalanct), 232 

Serpukhov (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Serres (Greece), 983 ; town, 983 

Setif (Algeria), 919 

Setubal (Portugal), 1194, 1195 ; fishing, 

1198 

Sevastopol (U.S.S.R), dockyard, 

1236; town, 1236 

Sevilla (Spain), prov., 1275 ; naval 

yard, 1281; town, 1275, 1276 ; 

university, 1276 

Sevres, Deux (France), dept., 885 

Seychelles Islands, 226 sqq 

— area, 226 




— population, 227 


Seydisfjordur (Iceland), 1016 

Seyhan (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

Seyyid Khalifa bin Harub, sultan 

(Zanzibar), 215 

Sfax (Tunis), 924 

s'Gravenhage, see Hague 

Shabani (S. Rhodesia), 237 

Shati sect (Zanzibar), 216 

Shahjahanpur (India), 118, 163 

Shahpura (India), 178 

Shahrig (Baluchistan), 144 

Shaikh Othman (Aden), 89 

Shaker Heights (Ohio), 624 

Shakhty (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Shamanism (Tibet), 798 

Shan States (Burma), 181, 183 



— land revenue, 182 

— silver, 183 

Shanghai (China), 784, 785 ; central 

mint, 793 ; textile mills, 790 ; 

port, 785 

Shanor (India), 171 

Shansi (China), prov., 784 ; Muhammadans 

in, 786 ; iron, 790 

Shantung (China), 784 

Shapour (Persia) (Iran), 1170 



INDEX 1459 

SHA SIN 

Shaqra (Nejd), 704 Siena (Italy), 1034,1035; university, 

Sharqiya (Egypt), 861 1035 

Shasi (China), port, 785 Sierra Leone (colony), 250 sqq 

Shawaf, the (Yemen), 706 — area and population, 251 

Shawnee (Oklahoma), 627 — education, 251 

Sheboygan (Wisconsin), 660 —peninsula, 251 

Shechem (Palestine), see Nablus Sierra Leone (protectorate), 253 

Sheffield, pop., 16 ; univ., 24 — area and population, 252 

Shengiin (Albania), port, 701 — haematite, 253 

Shensi (China), 784; iron, 790; Siglufjordur (Iceland), 1016 

petroleum, 790 Signakh (Georgia), 1264 

Shepparton, Victoria, 379 Siliora (India), 171 

Sherbro Island (Sierra Leone), 251 Siirt (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

Sherbrooke (Quebec), 342 Sikang (China), 784 

Sheridan (Wyoming), 663 Sikasso (French Sudan), 943 

Sherifian Empire (Morocco), 1096 sqq Sikhs (Baluchistan), 117, 143 

s'Hertog*nhosch (Netherlands), 1112 Sikhs (India), 117 

Shetland Isles, population, 18 Sikkim, 114, 179 

Shibin-el-K6m (Egypt), 861, 862 — area and population, 179 

Shigatse (Tibet), 798 — production, 179 

Shikoku Is. (Japan), 1056 Silesia (Czechoslovakia), 829 

Shillong (Assam), 143 — education, 830 

Shimonoseki (Japan), 1057 Silesia, Upper (Ger.), 958 

Shingishu (Korea), port, 1069 — manufactures, 971 

Shiraz (Persia) (Iran), 1167 —mines, 970 

— wireless station, 1172 Silhouette Island (Seychelles), 226 

Shire (Nyasaland), 222 Simanggang (Sarawak), 93 

Shizuoka (Japan), 1057 Simbor (Port. India), 1206 

Shkoder (Albania), 699 Simeon II, king of Bulgaria, 765 

Sholapur (India), 118, 150 Simferopol ([J.S.S.R.), 1230 

Shorariid (Baluchistan), 142 Simi (Synii) (jEgean), 1047 

Shortiand Island (Pacific), 297 Simla (India), 159 

Shreveport (Louisiana), 580 Simpson Harbour (Pacific), 432 

Shrivbara (India), 172 Sinai (Egypt), 861 

Shropshire, 14 Sinaloa (Mexico), state, 1087 

Shumen (Bulgaria), 767 Sinauen (Libya), 1044 

Shuya (U.S.S.R.), 1230 Sind (India), area, population, re- 

Sialkot (India), 118, 159 ligion and education, 114, 

Siam (now Thailand), see 1320 sqq 116, 117, 124, 125, 162, 163 

Sianouk, king (Cambodia), 914 — communications, 163 

Siauliai (Lithuania), 1258 — finance, 125 

Siberian Regions (U.S.S.R.), 1264, —forests, 130 

1265 — governor, 162 

— area and population, 1264, 1265 — irrigation, 162 

Sibi (Baluchistan), 144 —justice and crime, 162 

Sibiu (Rumania), 1217, 1218 — land revenue, 124, 129 

Sibu (Sarawak), 93 ; wireless station, — newspapers, 121 

93 — production and industry, 162 

Sicily (Italy), 1032 Sindhiapura (India), 171 

Sidibel-Abbes (Algeria), 919 Singa (A.-E. Sudan), 255 

Sidi Barrani (Egypt), 868 Singapore (Straits Settlements), 184 

Sidi Mohammed, sultan (Morocco), sqq 

1096 — area and population, 185 




SIN SON 

ingapore (Straits Settlements), Smuts, J. C, field-marshal, prime 

births and deaths, 185 minister, Union of S. Africa, 

— commerce, 186 429 

— communications, 187 Smyrna (Izmir) (Turkey), vilayet, 

— defence, 186 1330,1335 

— education, 185 — town, 1330, 1335 

— finance, 186 Snares Is. (New Zealand), 427 

— justice and crime, 186 Society Islands (Fr. Oceania), 953 

— money, weights and measures, 187 Sbdermanland (Sweden), prov., 1290 

— municipality, 184 Sbdertalje (Sweden), 1292 

— occupied by Japanese, 184 Sofala region (Port. East Africa), 

— population, 185 1204 

— naval base and harbour, 186 Sofia (Bulgaria), 767; university, 

— Baffles college, 184 766 

— shipping, 187 Sogn og Fjordane (Norway), 1140 

— trade, 184 SohSg (Egypt), 861 

— wireless station, 187 Soleure, see Solothurn 

Si-ning (China), 784 Solingen (Prussia), 960 

Sinjrani, Western (Baluchistan), 144 Solium (Egypt), port, 868 

Sin-Kiang (China), dependency, 784, Solna (Sweden), 1292 

799 Solomon Islands (Australian de- 

— Mohammedans in, 799 pendency, late German New 

Sinnamary (Guiana), 949 Guinea), 430, 433 

Sino (Liberia), 1077 Solomon Islands (British), 297, 298 

Sinop (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 Solomon Islands (Mauritius), 221 

Sioux City (Iowa), 573 Solothurn (Switzerland), 1303, 1305 ; 

Sioux Falls (South Dakota), 639 town, 1306 

Siracusa (Sicily), 1034 Solun (Mongolia), 800 

Sir-Darya (Uzbekistan), 1262 Somali Coast, British and French, 

Sirmur (India), state, 178 _ see Somaliland 

Sirohi (India), 178 ' Somali tribes (Kenya), 209 

Sitka (Alaska), 665 Somaliland (French). 908, 936 

Sivas (Turkey), vilayet, 1320 ; town, — area and population, 908, 936 

1330 — governor, 936 

Six Islands (Mauritius), 221 Somaliland (Italian), 1046, 1047 

Skaraborg (Sweden), province, 1291 — area and population, 1046 

Skelleftea (Sweden), 1292 — successful invasion by British 

Skien (Norway), 1141 Imperial troops, 1046 

Skoplye (Yugoslavia), 1359 Somaliland Protectorate (British), 

Skbvde (Sweden), 1292 228 

Skypanie, see Albania area and population, 228 

Slavyansk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 governor, 229 

Slesvig territories, 837, 958 production, 229 

Sligo (Eire), 474 Sombor (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Sliven, see Slivno Sombrero Island (West Indies), 285 

Slivno (Bulgaria), 767 Somersetshire. 14 

Slovakia (republic), 828 aqq Somersworth (New Hampshire), 607 

— president, 828 Somerville (Massachusetts), 499, 588 

— prime minister, 828 Somerville college, Oxford, 24 

Slovenia (Yugoslavia), 1356 Somes (Rumania), 1217 

— mining, 1362 Somme (France), dept., 885 

Smethwick, population, 16 Sondrio (Italy), 1034 

Smolensk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 Sonora (Mexico), state, 1087 



INDEX 1461 

SON SPA 

Sonsonate (Salvador), 1267 South Carolina, naval yard, 510 

Sooohow (China), port, 785 — ports, 527 

Soria (Spain), province, 1275 — production and industry, 517, 638 

Soriano 'Uruguay), 1342 — religion and welfare, 638 

Sor-Trbndelag (Norway), 1140 — representation, 491, 637 

Sosnowieo (Poland), 1187 —shipping, 528 

Sotavento (Cape Verde Is.), group, — tobacco, 517, 638 


Sourabaya (Java), 1122 South Dakota, 491, 495, 639 sqq 

Sousse (Tunis), 925 — agriculture, 515, 517, 640 

South Africa (British), see Basuto- — area, population and education, 

land, Bechuanaland, Cape Colony, 495, 639, 640 

Natal, Orange Free State, Rhode- — finance, 640 

sia, Swaziland, Transvaal, etc. — gold, 518, 639 

Union of (q.v.), 437 sqq — government, 639 

Southampton, population, 16 ; univ. — governor, 639 

coll., 24 — mining, 518, 640 

South Australia, 347, 391 sqq (see —productionandindustry, 517, 518, 

also Australia, Common- 640 

wealth) —public lands, 515 

— aboriginals in, 392 — religion and welfare, 640 

— agriculture, 394 — representation, 491, 639 

— area and population, 351, 392, 393 — university, 640 

— banks, 395 — wheat, 517, 640 

— births, marriages, deaths, 351, 392 Southend-on-Sea, population, 16 

— commerce, shipping and com- South Georgia (S. Atlantic), 267 

munieations, 395 South Grafton (N.S.W.), 369 

— communications, 362 South Holland, province, 1112 

— constitution and govt., 347, 348, South Island (New Zealand), 413 

391, 392 South Jutland Provinces (Denmark), 

— education, 393 837 

— finance, 394 Southland, Otago (N.Z.), 414 

— governor, 391 South Orkneys (S. Atlantic), 267 

— imports and exports, 358, 359, South Pacific Is. (N.Z.), 427 sqq 

395 Southport, population, 16 

— inhabited houses, 351 Southport (Queensland), 386 

— justice and crime, 393 South Portland (Maine), 583 

— land tenure, 394 South Sea Mandated Territories 

— pensions, 351, 393 (Japan), 1056/1057 

— production and industry, 394 — area and population, 1056, 1057 

— railways, 362 South Shetlands (South Atlantic), 

— religion, 393 267 

— representation, 348, 349, 391 South Shields, population, 16 

— university, 393 South-West Africa (Protect.), 465 sqq 

South Bend (Indiana), 499, 571 Southern Rhodesia, see Rhodesia, 

South Carolina, 491, 495, 637 sqq Southern 

— agriculture, 638 Soviet Central Asia, 1259 sqq 

— area, population and education, Soviet Socialist Republics, Union of, 

495, 637, 638 _ 1224 sqq 

— constitution and government, 637 Spain, 1272 sqq 

— cotton, 517, 638 — agriculture, 1279 

— finanee, 638 — area and population, 1274 sqq 

— governor, 637 — banking and credit, 1282, 1283 




SPA &UJB 

Spain, colonies, etc., 1284 sqq (see Stamford (Connecticut), 555 

also Spanish Zone (Morocco), Stampalia (JSgean), 1047 

1099 sqq) Stanislawow (Poland), town, 1187 

— commerce, 1280 sqq Stanley (Falkland Islands), 267 

— communications, 1282 Stanley Falls (Belgian Congo), 740 

— defence, 1278, 1279 Stanley Pool (Belgian Congo), 738 

— education, 1276 Stanleyville (Belgian Congo), 738, 

— finance, 1277, 1278 741 

— government and constitution, Stara Zagora (Bulgaria), 767 

1272 sqq Starbuck Island (Pacific), 300 

— justice and crime, 1276, 1277 State Barge Canal (N.Y.), 617 

— leader of the empire (caudillo), Stavanger (Norway), 1141 

1272 Stawell (Victoria), 379 

— local government, 1274 Stegi (Swaziland), 235 

— money, weights, measures, 1283 Steiermark, see Styria 

— old age pensions, etc., 1277 Stellenbosch univ. (S. Africa), 443 

— production and industry, 1279 sqq Stettin (Prussia), 960 

— religion, 1276 Steubenville (Ohio), 624 

— shipping and navigation, 1281 Stewart Island (N. Zealand), 413 

— universities, 1276 Stirling (Scotland), 18 

Spanish Africa, 1098 sqq, 1284 Stockholm (Sweden), 1290, 1922 

Spanish Guinea, 1284 , — academy of commerce, 1292 

Spanish Town (Jamaica), 281 — port, 1298 

Spanish Zone (Morocco), see under — town, 1290, 1292 

Morocco Stockport, population, 16 

Sparta (Greece), 983, 985 Stockton-on-Tees, population, 16 

Spartanburg {South Carolina), 637 Stoke-on-Trent, population, 16 

Spezia (Italy), 1037 ; naval command, Straits Settlements, 184 sqq (see 

1037 ; town, 1037 also Malay States, Federated) 

Spitsbergen, 1148 — dependencies, 185 sqq 

— area and population, 1148 Strasbourg (France), 897 

Split (Yugoslavia), 1359 — faculties, 890 

Spokane (Washington), 499, 655 — university, 890 

Springfield (Illinois), 568 Stuart (Northern Territory, Aus- 

— (Massachusetts), 499, 588 tralia), 406 

— (Missouri), 598 Stuttgart (Wurttemberg), 960, 962 

— (Ohio), 624 Suakin (A.-E. Sudan), 255 

Springs (Transvaal), 441, 460 Subotica (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Sri Jaya Ohamaraja Wadiyar Baha- Suceva (Kumania), 1217 

dur, ruler (Mysore),. 177 Sucre (Bolivia), 746 ; univ., 747 

Srinagar (Kashmir), 118, 175 Sucre (Venezuela), state, 1349 

Staffordshire, 14 Suda, Al (Yemen), 706 

Stalin, Field-marshal J. V., chair- Sudan, see Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 

man of council of people's Sudan (French), 908, 936, 937, 943 

commissars, 1227 ; genl. secy. sqq 

of U.S.S.R. communist party, —area and population, 908, 937, 

1228 943 

Stalingrad (U.S.S.K.), 1230, 1247 — governor, 943 

Stalino (Yuzovka) (U.S.S.R.), 1230, Sudetenland (Germany), 827, 957 


Stalinobad (Tajikistan), 1230, 1262 — joined to Germamy, 827 

Stalinsk (U.S.S.K.), 1230 Suez (Egypt), 861; town and port, 

Stalingorsk (U.S.S.K.), 1230 861, 868 



SUE 

Suez Canal, 868, 869 

shares, 42 

Suffolk, East and West, 14 

Suisse, see Switzerland 

Suiyuan (Mongolia), 784 

Suket (India), state, 178 

Sulaiman Badaru '1-alam Shah, 

ruler (Trengganu), 194 » 

Suleimani (Iraq), 1022 

Sultanabad (Persia) (Iran), 1167, 

1169 

Sumatra (Neth. E. Indies), 1121 sqq 


— coal, 1124 

— railways, 1125 

Summerside (Prince Edward Is.), 340 

Sumy (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Sunday Island (New Zealand), 429 

Sundbyberg (Sweden), 1292 

Sunderland, population, 16 

Sundsvall (Sweden), 1292 

Superior (Wisconsin), 660 

Surat (India), 118 

Surgana (India), 170 

Surinam (Neth. W. Indies), 1127 sqq 


Surrey, 14 

Sussex, East and West, 14 

Sutherland (Scotland), 18 

Suva (Fiji), 293 


Suwarrow Is. (N.Z.), 428 

Svalbard (Spitsbergen), 1147 

Sverdlovsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230, 1232; 

univ., 1932, 1247 

Sverige, see Sweden 

Svizzera, see Switzerland 

Swahili race and language, 209 

Swansea, population, 16 ; univ. 

college, 24 

Swat (India), 177 

Swatow (China), port, 785 

Swaziland (South Africa), 234 sqq 


— communications. 235 





Sweden, 1287 sqq 



1292 

INDEX 1463 

SYR 

Sweden, banking and credit, 1299 

— commerce, 1297, 1298 


— constitution and govt., 1289, 

1290 

— defence, 1294, 1295 

— finance, 1293, 1294 


— king, 1287 

— money, weights and measures, 

1300 


1296, 1297 

— religion and education, 1292 



Swift Current (Canada), 344 

Swindon, population, 16 

Switzerland, 1302 sqq 


— area and population, 1305,"1306 

— banking and credit, 1312 

— cantons, 1303 sqq 

— capital punishment abolished, 

1308 




1302 sqq 

— defence, 1309, 1310 

— education, 1307, 1308 

— finance, 1308, 1309 



1313 

— president of confederation, 1304 


1311 

— religion, 1306, 1307 

— social insurance, 1308 


Sydney (New South Wales), 369 

— banks, 363 


— port, 376 


Sydney (Nova Scotia), 835" 

Sydney Island (Pacific), 296 

Sydney Mines (Nova Scotia), 335 

Syed Alwi, ruler, Perlis, 193 

Symi (.ffigean), 1047 

Syra (Greece), 983 

Syracuse (New York), 499, 615 




STR . TAN 

Syracuse (Sicily), see Siracusa Tahaa Island (French Oceania), 953 

Syria and Lebanon, 1316 sqq Tahiti Is. (French Oceania), 963 

— agriculture, 1317 Taichu (Formosa), 1070 

— area and population, 1316, 1317 Tail (Hejaz), district, 702 

— boundaries, 1316 Taihoku (Formosa), 1070 

— commerce, 1318 Taikyu (Korea), 1067 

— communications, 1318, 1319 Taima (Arabia), 702 

— currency, banking and weights Tairisn (Formosa), 1070 

and measures, 1319 Taipa Island (Macao), 1206 

— defence, 1317 Tairend, tee Dairen 

— finance, 1317 Taiwan, see Formosa 

— independence proclaimed, 1316 Taizz (Yemen), 706 

— presidents, 1316 Takoradi (Gold Coast), 249 

— production and industry, 1317, Taku (China), dockyard, 789 

1318 Takutea (Cook Islands), 428 

— religion and education, 1317 Talasea (New Britain), 432 

— war declared on Germany and Talca (Chile), prov., 774; town, 

Japan, 1316 775 

Syzran (U.S.S.R), 1230 Talcahuano (Chile), 775; wireless 

Szatmarnemek (Hungary), 1008 station, 780 

Szechuon, Western (Tibet), 798 Tallinn (U.S.S.R.), 1255 

Szechwan (China), province, 784 Tamale (West Africa), 247, 250 

Szeged (Hungary), 1008, 1009, 1011 Taman Island (Pacific), 297 

— university. 1009 Tamatave (Madagascar), 931 sqq 

Sz6kesfehevar (Hungary), 1011 Tamaulipas (Mexico), state, 1087 

Szemao (China), port, 785 Tambov (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Szombathely (Hungary), 1011 Tamil race (Ceylon), 95 

Tammerfors (Finland), 876 

Tabacundo (Equador), 855 Tampa (Florida), 499, 561 

Tabar Is. (New Guinea), 433 Tampere, see Tammerfors 

Tabasco (Mexico), state, 1087 Tampico (Mexico), 1084, 1091 

Tabiteuea Is. (Gilbert Is.), 297 Tampin (Malay States), 187 

Tabora (Tanganyika), 260 Tamworth (New South Wales), 369 

Tabou (Ivory Coast), 941 Tanala race (Madagascar), 931 

Tabriz (Persia) (Iran), 1167, 1169, Tandil (Argentina), 713 

1170 Tanga (Tanganyika), 260, 263 

— wireless station, 1172 Tanga Is. (New Ireland), 433 

Tachira (Venezuela), state, 1349 Tanganika (Belgian Congo), 738 

Tacna (Peru), dept., 1177; town, Tanganyika Territory, 259 sqq 


Tacoma (AVashington), 499, 655 — communications, 263 

Tacuarembo (Uruguay), dept., 1342 ; — defence, 262 

town, 1342 — education, 260, 261 

Tadzhik Soviet Socialist Republic, — finance, 261 

1225, 1229, 1259 — government, 259, 260 

Tadzhikistan, republic (U.S.S.R.), —governor, 263 

1262, 1263 — production and industry, 262 

— area and population, 1262 — trade and shipping, 262 

— education, 1262 Tangier (Morocco), 1097 sqq, 1102 sqq 

— production, 1262, 1263 agriculture, 1102 

Tafahi (Tonga), 299 area, 1101 

Taganrog (U.S.S.R.), 1230 commerce, 1102 

Tagant (Mauritania), 943 education, 1100 



TAN 

Tangier (Morocco), finance, 1101 

justice, 1100 

— — languages, 1099 

new juridical regime, 1098 

occupation by Spanish Khalifan 

troops, 1097 

population, 1098 

posts, etc., 1103 

production and industry, 1102 

protocol (1928), 1097 

railways, 1103 

shipping, 1103 

statute, 1097 

Tanna Island (Pacific), 293 

Tannu-Tuva Republic, 801 

Tanta (Egypt), 860, 861 ; mosque, 

862 

Tao An (Mongolia), 800 

Taoism (China), 786 

Tapanoeli (Sumatra), 1121 

Taranaki district (N.Z.), 414 

Taranehi race (China), 799 

Taranto (Italy)* 1034 

Tarapaca (Chile), 774 

Tarawa Island (Pacific), 297 

Tarhuna (It. Africa), 1044 

Tarija (Bolivia), 746 ; town, 746 

Tarn (France), dept., 885 

Tarn-et-Garonne (France), dept., 885 

Tarragona (Spain), province, 1275 

Tartus (Syria), 1316 

Tashauz (Turkmenistan), 1261 

Tashi-cho-dzong (Bhutan), 744 

Tashi Namgyal, ruler (Sikkim), 179 

Tashkent (Uzbekistan), 1230, 1232, 

1261, 1262; univ., 1232 

Tasman Is. (Solomon Is.), 433 

Tasmania, 347, 402 sqq (see also 

Australia, Commonwealth) 



— births, marriages, deaths, 351, 

403 

— commerce, shipping, etc., 357 sqq, 

405,406 


— constitution and govt., 348, 402, 

403 


■— governor, 402 

— imports and exports, 358 

— inhabited houses, 351 


INDEX 1465 

TEE 

Tasmania, old age pensions, 404 


405 

— railways, 361, 362 



— revenue, 404 


Tasso Island (Sierra Leone), 251 

Tatau (Sarawak), 93 

Tau (Western Samoa), 434, 683 

Tauu Is. (Solomon Is.), 433 

Tavastehus (Finland), 875 

Taveuni (Fiji), wireless station, 

295 

Tawila (Yemen), 706 

Tayeh (China), iron, 790 

Taza (Morocco), 1099 

Tazhikistan, see Tajik 

Tchad, Lake (Fr. Sudan), 943 

Te Au-o-tu (Cook Islands), 428 

Tebicuari (Paraguay), 1162 

Tegucigalpa (Honduras), 1002 

Tehran (Persia) (Iran), 1167, 1170 

— wireless 1 station, 1172 

Tehri (India), 178 

Tekirdag (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

Tela (Honduras), 1002 

Tel-Aviv (Palestine), 197 

Telbes (Siberia), iron, 1265 

Telemark (Norway), 1140 

Temesvar (Rumania), 1217 

Temuco (Chile), 775 

Tenedos (jEgean), 1329 

Tengyueh (China), port, 785 

Tennessee, 491, 496, 641 sqq 




— cotton, 517, 643 





642, 643 


■—• representation, 491, 641 

— tobacco, 517, 643 


Tephii race (Bhutan), 743 

Tepic (Mexico), town, 1087 

Teplice (Czech.), 831 

Teramo (Italy), 1034 




TER 

Ternate (Netherlands East Indies), 

1121 

Terni (Italy), 1034 

Terre Ad&ie, 954 

Terre Haute (Indiana), 571 

Territoire de Commandement (Algeria), 

918 

Teruel (Spain), province, 1275 

Teso district (Uganda), 213 

Tessin, see Ticino 

Tetuan (Morocco), 1099 

Texas, 491, 496, 643 sqq 




644 

— cotton, 517, 646 




— helium, 646 


645, 646 




— wheat, 517, 646 

Teyateyaneng (Basutoland), 230 

Thailand (formerly Siam), 1320 sqq 



— commerce, 1323, 1324 


1320, 1321 

— defence, 1322, 1323 


— king, 1320 


1325, 1326 


— religion and education, 1322 


1324, 1325 

— treaty of alliance with Japan and 

declaration of war on Great 

Britain and the U.S.A., 1321 


Therezina (Brazil), 755 

Thesprotia (Greece), 983 

Thessaloniki (Salonika) (Greece), 983 

Thessaly (Greece), 983, 987 

Thompson Is. (existence doubtful), 

1149 

TLi. 

Thrace (Greece), 983 

Three Rivers (Quebec), 343 

Thun (Switzerland), 1306 

Thurgau (Swiss canton), 1303, 1305 

Thurgovie, see Thurgau 

Thuringia, 957 


Thursday Island (Queenland), 390 

Tiberias (Palestine), 197 ; medicinal 

springs, 203 

Tibet, 798 


— dalai lama, 798 

Ticino (Swiss canton), 1303, 1305 

Ticopia (Brit. Solomon Islands), 298 

Tientsin (China), 784, 785 

— Italian Concession of, 1049 

— port, 785 

Tierra del Fuego (Argentina), 714 

Tierra del Fuego (Chile), 775 

Tiflis (Georgia), 1230, 1232, 1253; 

univ., 1232 

Tigre (Eritrea), 1046 • 

Tigre' and Tigry languages (Eritrea), 

1046 

Tihua (China), 784 

Tihwafu (Sin-Kiang), 799 

Tiko (Nigeria), 244 

Tilburg (Netherlands), 1112, 1113 

Tilos (JSgean), 1047 

Tim language (Togo), 944 

Timaru (New Zealand), 414 

Timbuktu (Fr. Sudan), 943 

Tirais (Rumania), 1217 

Timisioara (Rumania), 1218 

Timor Archipelago (Netherlands East 

Indies), 1121 


Timor (Portuguese), 1202,1206, 1207 


1207 


Tinkisso river (Fr. Guinea), gold, 940 

Tinputz (Solomon Is.), 433 

Tipperary (Eire), 474 

Tirana (Albania), 699 

Tirnoular (French India), 909 

Tiroubouvane (French India), 909 

Titicaca (Bolivia) lake, 750 

Tito, Marshal, 1358 

Tizi Ouzon (Algeria), 919 

Tlaxcala (Mexico), state, 1087 ; town, 

1087 



TLB 

Tlemeen (Algeria), 919 

Tobago (West Indies), 277, 286, 

288 

Togo (French Togoland), 908, 944, 

945 


945 

— commissioner, 945 

Togoland (British), 264, 265, 952 eqq 

Togoland (French), see Togo 

Tohoku university (Japan), 1058 

Tokaj (Hungary), wines, 1012 

Tokat (Turkey), vilavet, 1330 

Tokelau Is. (New Zealand), 429 

Tokioor Tokyo, 1057 ; univ., 1058 

Toledo (Ohio), 499, 624 ; univ., 624 

Toledo (Spain), province, 1275 

Tolima (Colombia), 809 ; gold, 811 

Toluca (Mexico), 1087 

Tomsk (Siberia), 1230, 1232, 1265 ; 

univ., 1232 

Tondaiman, Rajagopala, raja (Pudukottai), 

176 

Tonga Islands (Pacific), 299, 300 





— queen, 299 

Tongareva I. (Cook Islands), 428 

Tongatabu Island (Pacific), 299 

Tongsa (Bhutan), 744 

Tongsa Penlop (title) (Bhutan), 744 

Tonk (India), 178 

Tonking(Fr. Indo-China), 908, 915 


— products, 915 

Tbnsberg (Norway), 1141 

Toowoomba (Queensland), 386 

Topeka (Kansas), 576 

Tor (Egypt), port, 868 

Torino, see Turin 

Toro (Uganda), 213 

Toronto (Canada), 307, 338 ; university, 

338 

Torreon (Mexico), JL0S7 

Torres Straits (Thursday Is.), 390 

Torrington (Connecticut), 555 , 

Tortoise Islands, see Galapagos 

Tortola Island (West Indies), 287 

Torun (Poland), 1187 

Tottenham, population, 16 

Touggourt (Algeria), 918 

INDEX H67 

TRE 

Toulon (France), 887 

Toulouse (France), 887 

— univ., 890 

Tourane (Annam), 913 

Tourcoing (France), 887 

Tournai (Belgium), 730 

Tours (France), 887 

Townsville (Queensland), 386 

Toyohasi (Japan), 1057 

Trabzon (Turkey), vilayet, 1330, 

1336 ; town, 1330 

Trail (Brit. Columbia), 329 

Transjordan, 205 sqq 

— agreement with British government, 

206 




—• high commissioner, 206 

— legislative council, 206 

Transkeian Territories (Cape Colony), 

454 

Transvaal, Province of, 437, 438, 

469 sqq 




460 

— coal, 449 


439, 460 

— copper, 449 


— education, 442, 443, 461 

— finance, 461, 462 

— gold, 449, 462 

— local government, 439, 440 



462 

— provincial council, 439, 440 

— railways, 450, 451 



— tin, 449 

— towns, 441, 460 


Trapani (Italy), 1035 

Trarza (Mauritania), 943 

Travancore (India), 114, 176 


— tea, 130 

Treasury Island (Pacific), 297 




TRB 

Trebizond or Trabzon (Turkey), vilayet, 

1330, 1336 ; town, 1330 

Treinta-y-Tres (Uruguay), 1342; 

town, 1342 

Trelleborg (Sweden), 1292 

Trengganu (Malaya), 192, 193, 194; 

ruler, 194 

Trento (Italy), 1034 

Trenton (New Jersey), 499, 609 

Treviso (Italy), 1034 , 

Tribhubana BirBikramruler(Nepal), 

1106 

Trichinopoly (India), 118, 154 

Trieste (Italy), 1034; univ., 1035 

Trikkala (Greece), 983 ; town, 983 

Trinidad (Bolivia), 746 

Trinidad (Colorado), 552 

Trinidad (Uruguay), 1342 

Trinidad (West Indies), 277, 286 sqq 


— asphalt, 287 

— defence bases leased to U. S. A., 288 



— imports and exports, 287 

Trinity college (Dublin), 475 

Hartford (Conn.), 555 

Tripoli (Italian Africa), 1043 sqq 


— captured by British forces, 1044 

— town, 1044 sqq 

Tripolis (Syria), 1317 

Tripolitania (Italian Africa), 1043 

sqq 

Tripolitsa (Greece), 983 

Tripura (India), state, 167 ; tea, 131 

Tristan da Cunha Is. (Atlantic), 225, 

226 

— area, 225 


Trivandrum (India), 118 

Trnava (Czechoslovakia), 830 

Trois Freres Island (Mauritius), 221 

Trollhattan (Sweden), 1292 

Troms (Norway), province, 1140 

Tromso (Norway), 1141 

Trondelag, Nord (Norway), 1140 

TiODdelag, S6r, 1140 

Trondheim (Norway), 1141 

Troy (New York), 615 

Troyes (France), 887 

Trucial Sheiks, 708, 709 

Trujillo (Honduras), 1002 

TUB 

Trujillo (Peru), 1176, 1177 ; univ., 

1178 

Trujillo (Venezuela), state, 1349 ; 

town, 1349 

Truk (Caroline Is.), 1072 

Truman, H. S. (vice-president, 

U.S.A.), 488, 489 

Truro (Nova Scotia), 335 

Tsetinye (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Tsi-nan (China), 784 

Tsing-tao (China), 784; port, 785 

Tsushima Is. (Japan), 1056 

Tuamotu Islands (French Oceania), 

953 

Tubingen (Wurttemberg), univ., 963 

Tubuai Islands (French Oceania), 953 

Tucopia Island (Pacific), 297 

Tucson (Arizona), 544; univ., 544 

Tucuman (Argentina), province, 714 ; 

town, 715 ; university, 715 

Tacupita (Venezuela), 1349 

Tudor (Kenya), port, 212 

Tula (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Tulcan (Ecuador), 852 

Tulear (Madagascar), 931 

Tulsa (Oklahoma), 499, 627 

Tumbes (Peru), dept., 1177 ; town, 

1177 

Tunceli (Turkey), 1330 

Tungan (China), 796 

Tunghua (China), 796 

Tungnrahua (Ecuador), prov., 852 

Tunis, 907, 908. 924 sqq 


— area and population, 907, 908, 924, 

925 

— bey, 934 



— defence, 896, 897, 925 



— French resident-general, 924 



926 



Tunja (Colombia), 808, 809 

Turgai(TJ.S.S.R.), 1260 

Turin (Torino) (Italy), 1034 ; university, 

1035 

Turkana district (Kenya), 209 



TUR 

Turkestan (Chinese), 799 

Turkestan (Russian), 1259 

Turkey, 1327 sqq 


— air service, 1335 


1331 

— banking and credit, 1337, 1338 

— caliphate abolished, 1327 

— ceded territory, 1329 

— commerce, 1336, 1337 



1328, 1329 

— defence, 1334, 1335 

— education, 1331, 1332 

— European numerals made obligatory, 

1332 

— finance, 1333, 1334 

— grand national assembly, Angora, 

1328 

— Islam no longer state religion, 

1331 

— justice, 1332, 1333 

— Kamutay, composition of the, 

1328, 1329 

— Latin alphabet introduced, 1332 


1338 

— name of Atatiirk given to the 

first president ; other titles 

abolished, 1327 



1336 

— prohibition of clerical garb, 1331 


— second five-year plan (1936), 1336 


1337 

— treaty of Lausanne, 1329 

— universal suffrage, 1328 


— vilayets, 1330 


Japan,1328 

Turki race (Sin-Kiang), 799 

Turkmenistan (U.S.S.R.), 1225,1229, 

1260, 1261 


1260, 1261 



INDEX 146$ 

ULA 

Turks Is. (West Indies), 277, 283, 

281 

Turku (Finland), 876 ; univ., 876 

Turku-Pori (Abo-Bjorneborg) (Finland), 

875 

Turnhout (Belgium), 730 

Tuscany (Italy), 1032,1039 

Tuskegee institute (Alabama), 542 

Tuticorin (India), port, 134 

Tutuila Is. (Western Samoa), 434, 

682, 683 


Tuxpan (Mexico), air line, 1092 

Tuxtla Gutierrez (Mexico), 1087 

Twillingate (Newfoundland), 274 

Tynemouth, population, 16 

Tyosen (late Chosen), see Korea 

Tyrone (N. Ireland), 73, 75 

Tyumen (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Ubangi (Belgian Congo), 738 

Ubangi-Shari Colony (French Congo),- 

908, 925 


Uccle (Brussels), 730 

Uchad (India), 171 

Uckfield college, 24 

Udaipur (Mewar), state (India), 178 

Uddeholm (Sweden), iron, 1296 

Uddevalla (Sweden), 1292 

Udine (Italy), 1035 

Ufa(U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Uganda protectorate, 212 sqq 



— currency, etc., 214 




— revenue, etc., 214 

Uitenhage (Cape Colony), 455 

Ujpest (Hungary), 1008 

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic,, 

1225, 1229, 1249, 1250 




— education, 1249, 1250 


— industry, 1250 

—; railways, 1250 

— towns, 1249 

9 Ulan Bator Hoto (Mongolia), 799 



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THE STATESMAN'S TEAB-BOOK, 1945 

Ulan-Ude (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Uleaborg (Finland), 875 ; town, 876 

Ulster (Eire), area and population, 

474 


Ulyanovsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Umaid Singhji Bahadur, ruler (Jodhpur), 

178 

Umboi Is. (Bismarck Archipelago), 

432 

Umbria (Italy), 1032 

Umea (Sweden), 1292 

Umeta (India), 171 

Umtali (Rhodesia), 237 

Unfederated Malay States, 192 sqq 

Union or Tokelau Islands (Pacific), 

429 

Union City (New Jersey), 609 

Union of South Africa, 437 sqq 


— banks, 451 

— commerce, 449, 450 


sqq 

— defence, 446, 447 


— finance, 445, 446 

— governor-general, 439 

— high commissioner, 440 

— justice, 444, 445 

— mandate, 465 sqq 

— money, weights and measures, 452 

— old age pension act, 445 

— prime minister, etc., 439 

— production and industry, 447 sqq 

— provinces, 437 sqq, 440, and see 

under their names 

— provincial councils, 439 

finance, 445, 446 


— shipping, etc., 450, 451 


Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 

1224 sqq {see also Russia) 

United Kingdom, see Great Britain, 

England and Wales, etc. 

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 

111, 112,114, 125, 128, 129, 

163 sqq 




— communications, 165 , 

UNI 

United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, 


— finance, 124, 164, 165 





— land revenue, 124, 129, 164, 165 

tenure, 129 

— newspapers, 121 

— proclamation by governor, 163 


— religion, 117. 164 


United States, 487 sqq (see also component 

states, under names) 

— agriculture, 515 sqq ^ 


— army, 507 sqq 

— Asiatics in, 494, 498 

— banks in, 531 sqq 

— cabinet, 490 

— Canadian ambassador in, 304 

— canals, see Dalles and Celilo, Erie, 

Nicaragua, Panama, Sault Ste. 

Marie, and State Barge 

— canned goods, 521 

— Chinese in, 494, 498 

— coinage, 534 sqq 

— commerce, 523 sqq 

— communications, 527 sqq 

— congress, 487 sqq 

— conscription, 508 sqq 


sqq 

— cotton, 521 sqq 

— currency and credit, 534 sqq, 


— elections, 487 sqq 

— exports, 524 sqq 

— federal finance, 504 sqq 

— fisheries, 524 sqq 

— food products, 616 sqq 

— foreign-born population, 494 sqq 

— foreign possessions, etc., see Guam, 

Hawaii, Panama, Philippines, 

Porto Rico, etc. 

— forests and forestry, 518 

— gold reserve act, 1934, 535 

— health and social welfare, 503, 504 

— house of representatives, 490 sqq 

—' imports, 525 sqq 

— iron and steel, 519, 523 



INDEX 1471 

UNI UTA 

United States, Japanese in, 494, Urbino (Italy), 1035 


— justice and crime, 502, 503 Urfa (Turkey), vilayet, 1330.; town, 

— manufactures, 519 1330 

— mining, 518, 519 Urga (Mongolia), 800 

— motor vehicle output, 521 Urgel, bishop of, 906 

— national defence, 507 sqq Uri (Swiss canton), 1303, 1305 

— national guard, 507 sqq Uribia (Colombia), 809 

— naval and air bases, leases for, 511 Uruguay, 1341 sqq 

— naval yards, 510 — agriculture, 1341 

— navy, 510 sqq — area and population, 1342, 1343 

— negroes in, 494 — banking and credit, 1346 

franchise, 491 —commerce, 1345, 1346 

— occupations of the people, 519 sqq —constitution and government, 

— petroleum, 519 1341, 1342 

— population, 494 sqq — defence, 1344 

foreign and foreign-born, 494 — finance, 1343, 1344 

sqq [see also separate states) — justice, 1343 

movement of, 497 sqq money, weights and measures, 

— presidents and vice-presidents, 1346, 1347 

488, 489 — president, 1342 

inauguration date, 487, 488 — production and industry, 1344, 

— religion, 499, 500 1355 

— senate, 490 sqq — religion and education, 1343 

— silvtir purchase act, 1934, 534 — shipping and communications, 

— state finance, 507 1346 

representatives, 491 — university, 1343 

— states and territories, 491 sqq, — war declared on Germany and 

541 sqq, 663 sqq Japan, 1342 

— territories, 493 sqq, 664 sqq Urumchi (Sin-Kiang), 799 

— tobacco, 517 Urumiah (Persia) (Iran), lake navi- 

— universities, 501 sqq gation, 1171 

— Yellowstone park, 662 Urundi (Belgian Congo), 260 

University City (Missouri), 598 Ushuaia (Argentine), 714 

Unterwald or Nidwalden and Ob- Usman Ali Khan, nizam of 

walden (Switzerland), cantons, Hyderabad, 174 

1303, 1305 Utah, 491, 496, 647 sqq 

Upolu Is. (Western Samoa), 434 —agriculture, 515, 648 

Upper Buchanan (Liberia), 1077 — area and population, 496, 647 

Upper Darby (Pennsylvania), 632 — constitution and government, 647 

Upper Nile prov. (A.-E. Sudan), 257 — education, 647, 648 

Upper Senegal and Niger (French), — finance, 648 

950 {see also French Sudan) — gold, 648 

Upper Silesia (Czechoslovakia), 958 — governor, 647 

Upper Silesia (Germany), 958 — mining, 518, 648 

Upper Silesia (Poland), 958 — production and industry, 515, 

Upper Volta (Fr. West Af,), 937 518, 648 

Uppsala (Sweden), 1290 — public lands, 515, 648 

— town, 1292 — religion and welfare, 648 

— university, 1292 — representation, 491, 647 

Ur of the Chaldees (Iraq), 1026 — silver, 648 

Uraga (Japan), shipyard, 1062 — university, 648 

Uralsk (Kazakh S.S.R.), 1230, 1260 — wheat, 648 




UTI 

Utica (New York), 499, 615 

Utrecht (Natal), 458 

Utrecht (Netherlands), 1112 

— town, 1113 


Uusimaa (Finland), 875 

Uvea Is. (French Pacific), 952 

Uzbekistan (Uzbek Soviet Socialist 

Republic), 1225, 1229, 1261, 

1262 




Vaasa (Finland), 875, 876 

Vadhyawan (India), 172 

Vaduz (Liechtenstein), 1081 

Vaitupu.Island (Pacific), 296 

Vajiria (India), 171 

Vakhtapur (India), 172 

Valais (Swiss canton), 1303, 1305 

Valdivia (Chile), 774 

forests, 778 

— town, 775 


Valencia (Spain), 1275, 1276 

— town, 1276 


Valencia (Venezuela), 1349 

— cotton mills, 1352 

Valladolid (Spain), province, 1275 

— town, 1275, 1276 


Valle (Colombia), 809 

Vallecas (Spain), 1275 

Valletta (Malta), 87 

Valmiera (Latvia), 1257 

Valona (Albania), 690, 701 

Valparaiso (Chile), 774, 779; town, 

775, 780; university, 775 ; 


Van (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 

Vancouver, Greater (Brit. Columbia), 

329 

Vancouver Island (British Columbia), 

329 

— town, 307 

Vanern, Lake (Sweden), 1291 

Vanmala (India), 171 

Vanua Levu Island (Fiji), 293 

Var (France), dept, 885, 899; silk, 

899 

Varberg (Sweden), 1292 

VKN 

Vardarska (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Varese (Italy), 1034 

Varesh (Yugoslavia), 1362 

Varmland (Sweden), prov., 1291 

Varna (Bulgaria), 767 

Varnoli Moti (India), 172 

Varnoli Nani (India), 172 

Varnol Mai (India), 172 

Vasa, see Vaasa 

Vasan-Sewada (India), 171 

Vasan-Virpur (India), 171 

Vassar College (New York), 616 

Vasteras (Sweden), 1292 

Vasterbotten (Sweden), prov., 1291 . 

Vasteruorrland (Sweden), province, 

1291 

Vastervik (Sweden), 1292 

Vastmanland (Sweden), province, 

1291 

Vasurna (India), 172 

Vatican City, the, 1209 sqq 

— coinage, etc., 1212 

— concordat with Italy, 1209 

— concordat with Portugal, 1195 

— independent sovereignty recognized, 

1209 

Vattern, Lake (Sweden), 1291 

Vaucluse (France), dept., 885 

Vaud (Swiss canton), 1303,1305 

Vaupes (Colombia), 809 

Vavau Islands (Tonga), 299 

Vavitu Island (Fr. Oceania), 961 

Viixjo (Sweden), 1292 

Vega, La (Dominican Repub.), prov., 

845 

Vel. Kikinda (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Vella Lavella Island (Pacific), 297 

Velsen (Netherlands), 1112 

Vendue (France), dept., 885 

Veneto (Italy), 1032 

Venezia (Italy), see Venice 

Venezia Giulia (Italy), 1032 

Venezia Tridentina (Italy), 1032 

Venezuela, 1348 egq 




— constitution and government, " 

1348 


— finance, 1350, 1351 





VBN 

Venezuela, production and industry, 

1351, 1352 

— religion and education, 1349,1350 


1353 



Japan, 1348 

Venice (Venezia) (Italy), 1032, 1035 

— naval command, 1037 

— silk, 1040 

— town, 1034, 1035, 1037 


Venlo (Netherlands), 1112 

Vent, lies sous le (Fr. Oceania), 953 

Ventspils (Latvia), 1257 

Veracruz (Mexico), 1087, 1088 

— port, 1091 

— town, 1087 

Veraguas (Panama), 1152 

Vercelli (Italy), 1034 

Verdun (Canada), 307, 342 

Vermont, 491, 495, 649 sqq 



650 









Verona (Italy), 1034 

Versailles (France), 887 

Venders (Belgium), 730 

Vest-Agder (Norway), 1140 

Vestfold (Norway), 1140 

Vestmannaeyjar (Iceland), 1016 

Vevey (Switzerland), 1306 

Viana do Castelo (Portugal), 1193 

Viborg (Finland), 875, 876 

Vicenza (Italy), 1034 

Vichada (Colombia), 809 

Vicksburg (Mississippi), 596 

Victoria (Australia), 347, 377 sqq 

(see also Australia, Commonwealth) 



380 

— births, marriages, deaths, 351, 380 

INDEX 1473 

VIL 

Victoria (Australia), civil aviation, 

362 

— commerce, 358 sqq, 383, 384 

— communications, 361, 383, 384 


sqq, 377 



— government, 348, 349, 377, 378, 

379 


— imports and exports, 358, 359 

— inhabited houses, 351 


— legislative assembly, 378 


— manufactures, 383 


— mint, 384 , 


— motor vehicles, 362 

— pensions, etc., 381 

— posts and telegraphs, 362 


383 

— railways, 361, 362 




— wireless broadcasting, 363 

Victoria (Brazil), 755 

— (Canada), 307 

— (Hong Kong), 104 

— (Labuan), 189 

— (Nigeria), 244 

— (Rhodesia), 237 

— (Seychelles), 227 

Victoria, Greater (British Columbia), 

329 

Victoria univ. (Manchester), 23, 24 

Victoria university college (New 

Zealand), 415 

Vidin (Bulgaria), 767 

Viedma (Argentina), 714 

Vienna (Germany), 960 

Vienne (France), dept., 885 

— Haute- (France), dept., 885 

Vientiane (Laos), 915 

Vieques Island (Porto Rico), 671 

Vigo (Spain), 1275 

Viipuri (Finland), 875, 876 

Vijaynagar (India), 178 

Vila Real (Portugal), dist., 1193 

3 B 




VID 

Villa Oisneros (Spanish Africa), 1285 

Villaggio Duca degli Abruzzi (Ital. 

Somaliland), 1047 

Villa Hermosa (Mexico), 1087 

Villarrica (Paraguay), dept., 1160 

Villavicencio (Colombia), 809 

Villenour (French India), 909 

Villeta (Paraguay), dept., 1161 

Villeurbanne (France), 887 

Vilnius (Lithuania), 1258 

Vilvoorde (Belgium), 730 

Vina del Mar (Chile), 775 

Vinnitza(U.S.S.R.), 1230, 1249 

Virampura (India), 171 

Virgin Gorda Is. (Brit. West Indies), 

286 

Virgin Islands (West Indies) (British), 

284, 286 

Virgin Islands (United States), 496, 

673, 674 


674 

— communication, 674 


—• finance, 674 



— money and banking, 674, 675 


Virginia, 491, 495, 651 sqq 




— cotton, 517, 653 




— minerals, 653 


— ports, 527, 529 


653 




— tobacco, 517, 653 


— wheat, 653 

— West, see West Virginia 

Visby (Sweden), 1292 

Viseu (Portugal), district, 1193 

Vitebsk (White Russia), 1251; town, 

. 1230, 1251 

WAL 

Viterbo (Italy), 1034 

Viti Levu Island (Fiji), 293 

Vitoria (Spain), 1275 

Vittorio Emanuele III (Italy), 

1029 

Vitu Is. (Bismarck Arch.), 432 

Vizcaya (Spain), prov., 1275 

Vlaardingen (Netherlands), 1112 

Vladimir (U.S.S.R.), 1230, 1236 

Vladivostok (Siberia), 1230, 1232; 

dockyard, 1236 ; university, 

1232 

Vlone (Albania), 690, 701 

Vologda (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Volsk(U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Volta, Upper (French W. Af.), 937 

Voorburg (Netherlands), 1112 

Vora (India), 171 

Voronezh (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Voroshilov (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Voroshilovsk(U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Voroshilovgrad (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Vosges (France), dept., 887 

Vostock Island (Pacific), 300 

Vratza (Bulgaria), 767 

Vrbaska (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Vrchatz (Yugoslavia), 1359 

Vryheid (Natal), 458 

Vyshni Volochek (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Wa (Gold Coast), 250 

Waadt, see Vaud 

Waco (Texas), 644 

Wadai (French Equat. Africa), 928, 

929 937 

Wadhwan'(India), 179, 180 

Wadi Dawasir (Arabia), 702 

Wadi Haifa (A.-E. Sudan), 255 

Wad Medani (A.-E. Sudan), 255 

Wageningen ■ (Netherlands), high 

school, 1113 

Wagga Wagga (New South Wales), 

369 

Wahhabi campaign (Arabia), 703 

Waiyevo (Fiji), wireless stn., 295 

Wakayama (Japan), 1057 

Wakefield, population, 16 

Wakkerstroom (Natal), 457 

Waldeck (Germany), 957 

Wales, area and population, 12 (see 

also England and Wales) 

— counties, 14 

— county boroughs, 15, 16 



WAL 

Wales, crops, 51 

— disestablishment, 2] 


— language, 11 

— religion, 21 sqq 


Walfish Bay, see Walvis Bay 

Wallasey, population, 16 

Wallis, see Valais 

Wallis Archipelago (French Pacific), 

952 

Walsall, population, 16 

Walpoole (New Caledonia), 952 

Walthamstow, population, 16 

Walvis Bay (South-West Africa), 

466, 468 

Wanchuen (China), 784 

Wanganui (New Zealand), 414 

Wangaratta (Victoria), 379 

Wangdupotrang (Bhutan), 744 

Wanhsien (China), port, 785 

Wankaner (India), 179, 180 

Wankie (S. Rhodesia), 237 

Warren (Ohio), 624 

Warri (Nigeria), 244 

Warrington, population, 16 

Warrnambool (Victoria), 379 

Warsaw (Poland), 1187 sqq 

Warwick (Queensland), 386 

Warwick (Rhode Island), 635 

Warwick, West (Rhode Island), 635 

Warwickshire, 14 

Washington (D.C.), 498, 559 


Washington (State), 491, 496, 654 sqq 

— agriculture, 515 sqq, 656 


655 

— coal, 656 



— gold, 656 



— mining, 518, 656 


— ports, 527, 529 


655, 656 





INDEX 

WES 

1475 

Washington (State), silver, 656 


— wheat, 517, 655 

Washington Is. (Pacific), 296 

Waterbury (Connecticut), 555 

Waterford (Eire), 474 ; county 

borough, 474 ; port, 480 

Waterloo (Iowa), 573 

Watermael-Boitsfort (Brussels), 730 

Watertown (New York), 615 

Watertown (South Dakota), 639 

Waterville (Maine), 583 

Watervliet (New York), 615 

Watlings Island (West Indies), 278 

Wau (S.E. New Guinea), 451 

Wausau (Wisconsin), 660 

Wauwatosa (Wisconsin), 660 

Waziristan, North and South (India), 

177 

Webi Shebeli (Italian Somaliland), 

1047 

Webster Grove (Missouri), 598 

Wejh (Hejaz), port, 705 

Welle, see Uele 

Wellesley Province (Straits Settlement), 

184, 185 

Wellington (N.Z.), Victoria university 

college, 415; district, 

414 ; town, 414 

Wenchow (China), port, 785 

West Africa (French), 908, 936 sqq 

West Africa (Portuguese), 1202 sqq 

Wast Africa (Spanish), 1284, 1285 

West African cols. (British), 241 sqq 

West Allis (Wisconsin), 660 

West Bromwich, population, 16 

West Lothian (Scotland), 18 

West Palm Beach (Florida), 561 

Western Australia, 347, 397 sqq 

(see also Australia, Commonwealth) 

— aboriginals in, 397 



— births, marriages, deaths, 351,397 

— commerce, 357, 358, 401 



396, 397 


— finance, 399, 400 


— imports and exports, 358, 401 




WES WIN 

Western Australia, inhabited houses, 

351 


— mint, 363, 401 



— railways, 361, 362, 401 



— social welfare, 399 


Western Carolines, 1072 

Western Fhergana (U.S.S.R.), 1261 

Western India States Agency, 114, 

167, 179 

Western Province (Uganda), 213 

Western Samoa, 434, 435 


Western Siberian Region (U.S. S.R.), 

1264, 1265 


Western Sinjrani (Baluchistan), 144 

Western Szeehuen, 798 

Western university (Ontario), 338 

Westfield college (Hampstead), 24 

West Ham, population, 16 

West Hartlepool, population, 16 

West Indies (American), 673, 674 

West Indies (British), 277 sqq (see 

also names of islands) 

West Indies (French), 908, 947 sqq 

West Indies (Netherlands), 1126 sqq 

Westland district (N.Z.), 414 

Westmeath (Eire), 473 

Westminster, New (Brit. Columbia), 

329 

Westminster, Statute of, 83 

Westmorland, 14 

West Nile district (Uganda), 213 

Westphalia (Prussia), industries, 970 

West Prussia (German), 958 

West Prussia (Polish), 958 

West Spitsbergen, 1148 

West Virginia, 491, 495, 656 sqq 

— agriculture, 658- 


— coal, 658 







West Virginia, religion and welfare, 

657 


— tobacco, 517, 658 


— wheat, 658 

West Warwick (Rhode Island), 634 

Wetaskiwin (Alberta), 326 

Wewak (S.E. New Guinea), 431 

Wexford (Eire), 473 

Weyburn (Canada), 344 

Wheeling (West Virginia), 657 

White Horse (Yukon), 346 

White Nile (Sudan), prov., 257 

Whiteplains (Liberia), 1077 

White Plains (New York), 615 

White Russia, Soviet Socialist Republic, 

1225, 1229,1251, 1252 

■— agriculture, 1252 



1251 

— education, 1251, 1252 


Whydah (Dahomey), 942 

Wiborg, see Viborg 

Wichita (Kansas), 499, 576 

Wicklow (Eire), 473 

Wien, see Vienna 

Wiesbaden (Prussia), 960 

Wigan, population, 16 

Wight, Isle of, area and population, 

12, 13 

Wigtown (Scotland), 17 

Wilhelmina, queen (Netherlands), 

1108 

Wilkes-Barre (Pennsylvania), 632 

Willemstad (Curacao), 1129 

Willesden, population, 16 

Williamsport (Pennsylvania), 632 

Wilmington (Delaware), 499, 557 

Wilmington (North Carolina), 619 

Wilno (Poland), town, 1187 

Wilryek (Belgium), 730 

Wilson Islands (Pacific), 297 

Wiltshire, 14 

Windhoek (S.W. Africa), 466 

Windsor (Ontario), 307, 338 

Windsor, duke of (formerly king 

Edward VIII), 3 

Windward Islands, 288 sqq 

— administration, 288 sqq 




WIN 

Windward Islands, wireless stations, 

289 

Winnipeg (Manitoba), 307, 331 

— fur auction, 318 


Winston-Salem (Nortli Carolina), 619 

Wintertlmr (Switzerland), 1306 

Wisconsin, 491, 495, 659 sqq 



— dairying, 661 




— governor, acting, 659 

— production, industry and communications, 

517, 661 



— tobacco, 517, 661 


— wheat, 661 

Witwatersraud, university of the 

(S. Africa), 443 

Wloclawek (Poland), 1187 

Wollongong (New South Wales), 36 

Wolue-St. Pierre (Brussels), 730 

Woluwe St. Lambert (Brussels), 7?0 

Wolverhampton, population, 16 

Wonthaggi (Victoria), 379 

Woodlark Island (Papua), gold, 410 

Woonsocket (Rhode Island), 635 

Worcester, population, 16 

Worcester (Cape Colony), 455 

Worcester (Massachusetts), 499, 588 

Worcestershire, 14 

Wuchang (China), 784, 785 

Wuchow (China), port, 785 

Wuhu (China), port, 785 

Wuppertal (Germany), 960 

Wiirttemberg, 957 

—■ area and population, 957 

Wiirzburg (Bavaria), 960, 963 


Wyandotte (Michigan), 591 

Wye college, 24 

Wyoming, 491, 496, 662 sqq 



— coal, 664 




INDEX 1477 

YOR 

Wyoming, governor, 662 


663, 664 





— Yellowstone park, 662 

Xauen (Morocco), 1099 

Yahya, Zaidi Imam, ruler of Yemen, 

704 

Yakutsk Repub. (TJ.S:S.R.), 1264, 

1265 


— town, 1265 

Yale university (Connecticut), 555 

Yanaon (French India), 909 

Yanbii (Hejaz), port, 702 

Yangchu (China), 784 

Yanina (Greece), 983 

Yaounde" (Cameroon), 946 

Yap (Caroline Is.), 1072 

Yaracuy (Venezuela), state, 1349 

Yarkand (Sin-Kiang), 799 

Yarmouth (Nova Scotia), 335 

Yaroslavl (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Yass-Canberra (Australia), 349 

Yassy (Rumania), 1217 

Yatung (Tibet), 799 

Yawata (Japan), 1057 

Yegoryevsk (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Yeji (Northern Territories), 250 

Yelets (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

Yellowstone national park (U.S.A.), 

661 

Yemen (Arabia), 706 

Yendi (Gold Coast), 250 

Yerim (Yemen), 706 

Yeshwant Rao Holkar Bahadur, 

ruler (Indore), 166 

Yezd (Persia) (Iran), 1167 

Yezo (Japan), 1055 

Yliii (Paraguay), dept., 1161 

Yingkow (Manchukuo), 796 

Yochow (China), port, 785 

Yokohama (Japan), 1057 

Yokosuka (Japan), 1057 ; dockyard, 

1062 ; naval command, 1061 

Yonkers (New York), 499, 615 

Yonne (France),'dept., 885 

York, population, 14, 16 




YOB ZL1 

York (PennsylTania), 632 Yungning (China), 784 

York Is. (Sierra Leone), 251 Yunnan (China), 784 ; tin, 790 ; 

Yorkshire, East, North, and West railway, 792 

Kidings, 14 Yverdon (Switzerland), 1306 

Yorkton (Saskatchewan), 344 

Youngstown (Ohio), 499, 624 Zaandam (Netherlands), 1112 

Yozgat (Turkey), vilayet, 1330 Zaeapa (Guatemala), 992 

Ysabel (Brit. Solomon Is.), 297 Zacatecas (Mexico), 1087 ; town, 

Ystad (Sweden), 1292 1087 

Yucatan (Mexico), state, 1087 Zagazig (Egypt), 860, 861; mosque, 

Yugoslavia, 1355 sqq 862 

— agriculture, 1362 Zagreb (Yugoslavia), 1359; univ., 

— area and population, 1359, 1360 1361 

— banking and credit, 1364 Zahlah (Lebanon), 1317 

— commerce, 1363 Zaidi Imam, the (Yemen), 706 

— constitution and government, Zakynthos, see Zante 

1357, 1358 Zambales (Philippines), 678 ' 

— defence, 1362 Zamboanga (Philippines), town, 

— education, 1361 676 

— finance, 1361 Zambo race (Nicaragua), 1133 

■— Germans expelled by Russians, Zamora (Spain), province, 1275 

1357 Zanesville (Ohio), 624 

— invasion by Germany, 1357 Zante (Greece), 983 ; town, 983 

— justice and crime, 1361 Zanzibar Protectorate, 215 sqq 

— king, 1355 — commerce, 217 

— money, weights and measures, — communications, 217, 218 

1364 —constitution and government, 215 

— partition of country, 1357 216 

— production and industry, 1362, — education, population and re- 

1363 ligion, 216 

— provincial parliament and govern- — finance, 216, 217 

ment, 1359 —justice, 216 

— regency council, 1358 — production and industry, 217 

— religion, 1360 — shipping, etc., 217, 218 

— shipping and communications, — sultan, 215 

1363, 1364 Zaporozhie (U.S.S.R.). 1230 

— three-power pact signed by prime Zara (Italy), 1034 ; town, 1034 

minister.repudiatedby nation, Zaragoza (Spain), province, 1275 

and assumption of power by — town, 1275, 1276 

the king, 1356 — university, 1276 

— universities, 1361 Zatatecoluca (Salvador), 1267 

Yuki (Korea), port, 1069 Zealand (Netherlands), 1112 

Yukon Territory (Canada), 303, 346 Zeilah (Somaliland), 229 

— area and population, 306, 346 Zeist (Netherlands), 1112 

— communications, 346 Zetska (Yugoslavia), 1359 

— constitution and govt., 303, 346 Zhitomir (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

— education, 346 Zhob Valley (Baluchistan), 144 

— finance, 346 Zifta (Egypt), 860 ; barrage, 866 

— mining, 316, 346 Zinder (French West Africa), 943 

— production and industry, 317, Zionist organisation (Palestine), 

346 196 

— religion, 308 Zlatoust (U.S.S.R.), 1230 

— representation, 303, 346 Zlin (Czechoslovakia), 830 



ZOM 

Zomba (Nyasaland), 222 

Zonguldak (Turkey), town, 1330 

— vilayet, 1330 

Zug (Swiss canton), 1303, 1305 ; 

town, 1306 

Zuiderzee (Netherlands), drainage, 

1112 

Zulia (Venezuela), 1349 

INDEX 1479 

zwo 

Zululand (Natal), 457 

— sugar, 459 

Zurich (Switzerland), 1303, 1305 

— town, 1306, 1307 


Zutphen (Netherlands), 1112 

Zvarungu (Gold Coast), 250 

Zwolle (Netherlands), 1112 

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