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September 30, 1920.
THE BOARD OE TRADE JOURNAL.
397
Special 3rticles.
PASSENGER MOVEMENT FROM AND TO
THE UNITED KINGDOM.
RETURNS FOR JANUARY'JUNE, 1920.
i^^-eturns. relating to passenger traffic between the
United Kingdom and places outside Europe, and not
within the Mediterranean Sea, show that the number
of persons of British nationality who left the United
Kingdom as passengers for such countries during? the
six \nonths ended June, 1920, exceeded the nuinber
who'^rrived as passengers from such countries by
69,639. In the corresponding period of 1919 an inward
balance of 5,810 was recorded.
• The movement of British subjects during the first
half of the year 1920 shows a balance outward of
40,909 passengers to British North America, 13,848
passengers to Australia and New Zealand, and 16,188
passengers to the United States, while inward balances
are shown from British South Africa and India.
As regards the movement of aliens between this
country and non-European countries during the first
half of 1920, an inward balance of '30,734 is shown, as
against 4,026 in the corresponding period of 1919. In
the traffic between the United Kingdom and the Con
tinent of Europe there was an excess outward of 12,912,
as compared with 100,080 in the corresponding period
of 1919, and 13,130 in 1918. Theie figures relate to
alien passengers as well as to British. Separate par
ticulars as to the number of alie A passengers from and
to the Continent are not furnished to the Board of
Trade. A return issued by the Home Office, under the
Aliens’ Order, 1920, shows tha| the number of aliens
who landed at ports in the Uhited Kingdom from all
countries during the first haff of 1920 exceeded the
number that embarked at thole ports by 18,291.
The following table gives particulars of the numbers
of passengers, including emigrants and immigrants,
who travelled between the United Kingdom and places
outside Europe during th| first two quarters of the
years 1919 and 1920. Particulars for each quarter of
1919 were published in tbfe issue of the “ Journal ” of
15th April last (Yol. Civ., No. 1220).
MOVEMENT, SIX MONTHsJeNDED JUNE, 1919 AND 1920.
OutwaiA.
Inward.
Balance*
the Passengers con
tracted to land or
in which they em
barked.
British
?ubjects.
iotal
British
J and
Jtliens.
British
Subjects.
Total
British
and
Aliens.
British
Subjects.
Total
British
and
Aliens.
British N. America—
1st quarter, 1920
21,793
22,468
5,106
7-,980
16,687
14,488
2nd „ 1920
43.311
44,848
19,089
26,813
24,222
18,035
1st „ 1919
9,586/
9,828
5,514
5,723
18,043
4,072
4,105
2nd „ 1919
21,300,
22,092
17,237
4,063
4,049
t Australia and New
Zealand—
1st quarter, 1920
10,501
10,538
3,920
3,995
6,581
6,543
2nd „ 1920
12.583
12,712
5,316
5,460
. 7,267
7,252
1st ., 1919
3,065 .
3,066
231
232
2,834
2.834
2nd 1919
3,265
3,274
2,270
2,349
>995
925
British South Africa
1st quarter, 1920
6.466
6,915
3,563
3,878
2,963
3,037
2nd „ 1920
5,443
6,224
8,504
8,979
3,061
2,755
1st „ 1919
1,027
1,072
964
1,047
63\
25
2nd „ 1919
516
517
3,571
3,978
3,055
3,461
t India f including
Cevlon)—
575
1st quarter, 1920
3,767
3,808
3,192
3,292
.516
2,802
2nd „ 1920
3,489
3.607
6,264
6,409
2,775
1st „ 1919
2,016
2,056
1,961
1,987
55
69
2nd „ 1919
2,015
2,040
6,510
6,658
4,495
4,618
t Other British Colo
nies and Posses
sions—
1st quarter, 1920
3,408
3,587
2,411
2,593
997
V
904
556
2nd „ 1920
3,427
3,639
3,943
4.195
516
1st „ 1919
1,539
1,742
1,079
1,145
3,879
460
597
2nd „ 1919
2,493
2,659
3,595
1,102
1,220
United States—•
5,471
1st quarter, 1920
11,923
17,363
6,452
13,301
4,062
2nd „ 1920
23,975
33,328
13,258
43,120
10,717
9,792
1st ,. 1919
3,147
4,876
5.232
8,661
2,085
3,785
2nd „ 1919
4,191
6,912
11,835
16,176
7,644
9,264
t Other Foreign
Countries—
1st quarter, 1920
3,408
4.143
1,888
2,585
1,520
949
1,558
2nd „ 1920
3.006
3,675
3,955
5,350
1,675
1st J 1919
1,466
1,937
849
1,151
617
786
2nd „ 1919
2,167
2,846
2,755
3,724
588
878
Total, all Countries—
34,734
1st quarter, 1920
61,266
68,822
26,532
37,624
31,198
2nd „ 1920
95,234
108,033
60,329
100,326
34,905
7,707
1st „ 1919
21,846
24,577
15,830
19,946
6,016
4,631
2nd „ 1919
35,947
40,340
47,773
54,807
11,826
14,467
* Inward balances are In hpavy type. . ,
t Exclusive of passengers travelling indirectly via Continental Ports.
SPECIAL ARTICL ES — continued.
Traffic Between the United Kingdom and
the Continent.
The following totals relate to the traffic to and from
the Continent of Europe. A large proportion of the
passengers in the years 1917 and 1918 were war ybrkers:
No. of Passengers . No Of Passengers
First six months from the United Kingdom from the^Continent to
of the year to the Continent; the United Kingdom.
1920 308,838 ... 295,926
1919 ... ... 259,104 ... .159,024
1918 81,213 ... 68,083
1917 87,805 ... / 74,913
Movement of British Migrants.
The British subjects who were recorded as leaving
permanent residence in the United Jvingdom to take
up permanent residence in non-Ejdropean countries
numbered 131,656 in the first half of 1920, as compared
with 47,794 in the same period of 1919, residence for
. a year or more being regarded as permanent residence.
Those recorded as arriving in the United Kingdom from
non-European Countries in the fir'st half of 1920 to
take up permanent residence therein numbered 40,620,
as against 39,358 in the corresponding period of 1919.
The distribution of the migratory movement of
British subjects in the first and second quarters of the
years 1919 and 1920 is shown below, particulars for
the principal countries concerned being distinguished.
MOVEMENT OF BRITISH SUBJECTS BETWEEN THE UNITED I
KINGDOM AND NON-EUROPEAN COUNTRIES.
Migrants of British Nationality.
1920.
191
9.
1st
Quarter.
2nd
Quarter.
1st
Quarter.
2nd
Quarter.
Emigrants to—
British North America
19,103
39,552
7,901
18,086
Australia and New Zealand ..
9,636
11,878
3,244
3,456
British South Africa ..
4,372
3,643
548
400
India (including Ceylon)
2,838
2,398
1,637
1,525
Other British Colonies and
Possessions/;.
2,100
2,396
1,092
1,662
Total, British Empire ..
38,049
59,867
14,422
25,129
United Stales ..
9,571
19,895
2,094
3,255
bther Foreign Countries (non-
European)
2,128
2,146
1,078
1,816
Total Emigrants
49,748
81,908
17,594
30,200
Immigrants from—
BritMi North America
Amswalia and New Zealand..
3,436
6,329
4,335
9,345
3,048
3,534
310
2,013
British South Africa ..
1,625
2,604
546
1,830
India (including Ceylon)
2,187
4,851
1,663
5,314
Other British Colonies and
Possessions ..
913
1,367
449
2,172
1 Total, British Empire ..
11,209
18,685
7,303
20,674
f United States ..
2,577
5,666
2,402
6,244
; Other Foreign Countries (non-
l European) ..
892
1,591
661
2,074
* Total Immigrants ..
14.678
25,942
10,366
28.992
MESOPOTAMIA.
THE COUNTRY AND ITS TRADE.
At the present moment in Mesopotamia trade con
ditions are necessarily affected by the political situa
tion ; but so much has been done to place the trade of
the country upon a comparatively stable basis and to
make a beginning with internal development, that the
Report upon the. conditions of trade during last year
prepared in the Civil Commissioner’s Office at Baghdad,
cannot fail to excite interest.
Thei great alluvial plain of Mesopotamia, with its
120,000 square miles of area, and its scattered popu
lation numbering now some 2,800,000, had before the
war no properly equipped seaport, and few means of
internal communication except by the rivers Tigris and
Euphrates. Even river navigation, especially of the
Euphrates, was greatly restricted by narrows and
shallows. Ocean steamers which passed from the
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. up the Shatt-el-Arab depended entirely on
their own gear and on native river craft for the landing
and shipping of cargo. Now there are at Basra adequate
wharves, capable of accommodating deep steamers,
fitted up With cranes and laid out with railway sidings.