698 BELGIUM
There are joint-stock and private banks, also agricultural banks, credit unions, and popular banks.
Money, Weights, and Measures.
The Franc Par value 25-2214 to £1 sterling.
Belgium belongs to the Latin Monetary Union.
The weights and measures are these of the metric system.
Diplomatic Representatives.
1. Of Belgium in Great Britain. Ambassador. — Baron Moncheur ; appointed October, 1917. Counsellor of Legation. — Charles Maskens.
Secretaries. — Pol Le Telier, Jean de Fontaine, and Baron Egmont de Zuylen de Nyevelt.
Consul-General in London. — E. Pollet.
2. Of Great Britain in Belgium.
Ambassador. — The Right Hon. Sir George Giahame, K.C.V.O., appointed July 20, 1920.
Coicnsellor. — Eric Phipps, C.M.G.
Secretaries. — N. H. H. Charles, M.C., K. T. Gurney and A. Ifolman.
Commercial Secretaries. — R. F. H. Duke and B. P. Sullivan.
Military Attache'. — Brigadier-General Lyon, C.M.G., D.S.O.
There is a Consul-General at Antwerp, and Vice-Consuls at Brussels, Bruges, Ghent, Lie"ge, and Antwerp.
Statistical and other Books of Reference concerning Belgium 1. Offical Publications.
The publications of the Central Statistical Commission and of the various Administra- tive Departments: the Interior, Agriculture, Railways, Posts and Telegraphs, Instruction, Industry and Labour, &c.
Expose^ de la Situation de Royaume. Brussels.
Bulletin trimestriel de Statistique. Brussels.
Annuaire Statistique de la Belgique et du Congo Beige. Annual. Brussels.
2. Non-Official Publications.
Baedeker's Belgium and Holland, including the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. 15th rd. Leipzig, 1910.
Balan (L.), Soixante-dix ans d'histoire de Belgique. Brussels, 1800.
Banning (E.), La Belgique au Point de Vue militaire et international. Brussels, 1901
Bavary (Ch. Victor de), Histoire de la revolution beige de 1S30. Bruxelles, 1870.
Billiard (R.), La Belgique Industrielle et Commerciiile de Domain. Paris, lplf>.
BoucM (B.), Les ouvriers agricoles en Belgique. Brussels, lit] 4.
Boulger (D. C), Belgium of the Belgians, London, 1011.— The History of Belgian). Vol. I., 1902. Vol. II., 1909, Revised 1913. Loudon.
Ilrangwyn (Frank), and Stoket (Hugh), Belgium. London, 1916.
Hiirklin (W.), Handbuch des belglschen Wirtschaftslebens mit Einschlusa von Eelgisch-Kongo. Qottingen, 1916.
Cam mm \rU (Eruile), Belgium (Story of the Nations). London, 1921.
Charriaut.(H.), La Belgique Moderne. Paris, 1910.
Clavier (Ch.), La fortune beige ;V la veille de la guerre. Brussels, 1919.
Cram(H.A.), Heart of Europe. London, 1916.
Iirmain, 8. J. (H.), Les Migrations ouvrieres a travers la Belgique. Bruxelles, 19H>.
D«ioamp«(Le Chevalier). La Constitution internationale dela Belgique. Bruxelles, 1901.
Kdward* (O. W.), Belgium, Old and New Illustrations. Philadelphia, 1920.
Ensor (R. C. K.), Belgium. London. 1916.
Kntn (L. vau der), A Short History of Belgium. London, 1920.
