Eight Million Living in Other Countries Nanking, Aug. 6 Nearly 8,000,000 Chinese. seatiered {throughout the world, are living un-Jder foreign jurisdiction, according to Jagures released by the Overseas Chinese Affairs Committee of the National Government.
By far the greatest number of chinese abroad live in the Malay JArchipelago and southern Asia. Siam alone claims a Chinese population of 2500000; Annam, 381,417; Burma, 193,596; and India. 15,000.
British Malaya has a Chinese poputation of 1,709,392; "British North 'Borneo, 75,000; and' the Netherlands [East Indies, 1,232,650.
'There are 110.500 Chinese in the Philippine Islands, 27.179. in Hawai, 15500 in Australia, 2854 in New Zealand, and 4,500 in' South Africa, total of 1,200'Chinese are classified fas living on small Pacific islands and other 5,000 on islands in the Indian (Ocean. japan exercises jurisdiction over approximately 100,000 Chinese—20074 jin Japan. 46,691 in Formosa, and 41,308 in Korea.
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