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THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — UNITED KINGDOM

1920 inclusive, the number of passengers of British origin, to places out of Europe, was 14,140,000; and the number of foreigners, to such places, was 5,880,000, total, 20,020,000. Figures of the passenger traffic to and from non-European countries in recent years are given as follows : —

Outward

Inward

Balance

British subjects

Aliens

Total

British subjects

Aliens

Total

Total

1913 1915 1916 1917 1918 1919 1920

469,640

104,919

76,479

20,578

17,319

180,232

352,429

232,051 21,588 17,410 7,293 5,505 21,272 84,355

701,691 126.507 93,889 27,871 22,824 201,504 436,784

227,643

129,652

84,654

21,026

15,414

153,230

180,064

144,975 17,537 13,929 13,016 10,556 40,371

103,641

372,618

147.189

98,583

34,042

25,970

193,«0l

283,705

329,073 20,682 1 4,094 1 6,171 i 3,146 1 7,903

153,079

1 Balance inward.

A revised form of passenger list adopted since April 1, 1912, shows that the number of British emigrants (excluding persons only temporarily absent from the Unitel Kingdom) to places out of Europe was about 390,000 in 1913, 215,000 in 1914, 77,000 in 1915, 53,000 in 1916, 10,000 in 1917, 10,600 in 1918, 147,000 in 1919; 285,000 in 1920; and the immigrants of British nationality about S6.000 in 1913, 104,000 in 1914, 92,000 in 1915, 5S.OO0 in 1910, 12,000 in 1917, 8,800 in 1918, 93,000 in 1919; 86,000 in 1920.

The destinations of British subjects leaving the United Kingdom for non-European countries in 1920 were mainly the United States (90,429), British North America (134,079), Australasia (49,357), British South Africa (29,019), India and Cevlon (19,326). The bulk of the aliens travelled to the United States (61,224 in 1920).

The passenger movement between the United Kingdom and European countries (including all ports in the Mediterranean and Black Seas) in recent years is given as follows : —

Passengers

Year

To U.K.

From U.K.

Balance Inward

1913

1915 1916 1917 191S 1919 1920

1,309,874 447,270 212,491 182,481 171,320 425. 1S3 725,253

1,184,412 431.080 219,017 '.Ml, 953 isn,225 600.989 7.1S.860

136,462 16,190

IV, 409' 17,9961 III. 73H1 18,6071

i Balance outward.

The number of Irish who emigrated from Ireland was in 1913, 30,967; 1914,20,314; 1915,10,659; 1916,7,302; 1917,2,129; 1918,980; 1919, 2,975. The total number from May 1, 1851, to the end of 1919 was 4,322,668.

Religion.

1. England and Wales.

The Established Church of England is Protestant Kpisropal. Civil disabilities on account of religion do not attach to any class of British subjects. Under the Welsh Church Acts, 1914 and 1919, the Church in Wales and Monmouthshire was disestablished as from March 31, 1920. Wales