The Washington herald., 1914-08-23
VAST
empire in pawn
Area of Germany, with Colo
MES, is l,236,600 Square
Miles.
EXPORTS EQUAL IMPORTS
Total Wealth, Including that of Pos
sessions. Estimated at About
$6O,500.000.000.
EXPORTS EQUAL IMPORTS

The Importance to the world Of the
German empire, with \ Its colonization
work and vast manufactures, and ithe
black results which must come to Ger
many and indirectly to the other coun-
tries, whether the Kaiser wins or loses
in the war, are being realized every
where.
The empire Of the Kaiser Is made up
of four kingdoms. six grandduchies, five
duchies, seven principalities, two prov
inces, Alsac-Lorraine. Reichsland, and
three free towns.
The population OF Germany, by the 1910
census, was 64925, 993, or S10.4 to the square
miles; 32,O4O, le6 males, and S2.sS5.S ST fe-
males. In June, 1918. the population was
estimated at g. 0e6.0O0.
Germany has four colonies in Africa,
one in Asia and eight among the islands
OF the Pacific, with a combined popula-
ton OF 24.3S9 whites. 1901, 6o3 natives,
total. 12O6S, s92. This makes the total
population Of the German empire, B,-
161, 992
Seven Big Cities.
The area of Germany Is 20S,TSO square
miles, which with 1,OZ7, $40 square miles
of the colonies, brings the area OF the
German empire to 1,256,eOO square miles.
According to the last census, there
were leg, S73 foreigners in Germany; a.
As subjects of Belgium; 1910 French;
1888. English and Irish; 1O4,2O4, Italians:
1856. subjects Of Luxembourg: lH.1T5,
Dutch; 657, 49, Austrians and Hungarisns;
157 6g7. subjects OF Russia and Finland,
and 1852, Americans.
The German empire has seven cities
Of more than half a million population.
They are Berlin. 2.071,257; Hamburg,
s5l. O55; Munich. 5s6.467; Leipsig, 5SsS
Dresden. S4S,30S; Cologne. 5l6,527; Breslau.
5l2lO5..
The latest available figures show the
annual birth rate Of Germany to aver
age 1.925. $50: the death rate, Loss. s96: the
population thus increasing at the rate OF
S39. SS a year. The German birth rate
has shown a marked decline in recent
years. as follows: In 1876 II was, per
1000 inhabitants, 42.6 per cent; in 1896,
SIS; in 1906, 341; in 1909. 80: in 1911. 2s.5.
Emigration Decreased.
Where formerly many thousands Of
German subjects emigrated annually, in
the last few years the emigration has
been cut down considerably. In 1912,
the last figures available, 1885 Germans
left the Fatherland; 13. 7O5 TO the United
States; rs to Brazil; Ass to other North
and South and Central American coun-
tries; 9O1 to other countries OF Europe;
800 to Australia, four TO Asia and none
to Africa.
year ago the estimated total wealth
OF the German empire was $50. 500, oOOo 900
as compared with: United States. SiSn.-
coo 90 900; Great Britain. $50, 900 900, 900;
France, $50. 600 on, 900; Austria-Hungary,
80. 900. 10000; Italy. so, 1000, O0O, OOO and
and Belgium. 5000 900, 900.
The last occupation census Of Germany,
taken in 1907. showed that in the empire
there were 81, 49,. 100 employed as follows:
Agriculture and stock raising, s.T2,I72.
mining. metal work and kindred indus
tries, u,256,254; commerce, trade and
347.62S; domestic and other
service, 1,736.45 professions. lbs SO;
forestry. hunting and fishing, 1j0,IS; !
nenns Z ~ aS7