MISCELLANEOUS DATA CONCERNING FOREIGN CORPORATIONS. 537

BRITISH INVESTMENTS ABROAD.
PARTIAL LIST OF BRITISH ORGANIZED OR CONTROLLED COMPANIES WHOSE PROP-ERTIES
 ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED KINGDOM, UNITED STATES, AND

[Prepared from foreign statistical manuals of 1915 by William J. Clark.)

It should be understood that the following list of British investments
 does not represent the total of British capital invested in
foreign countries. Nhe United States and Canada are omitted from
this Fst, and large amounts of British capital have been invested in
both. Moreover, even in the countries covered, many investments
have not been included because not given in any published sources.
The total of British capital invested outside the British Isles probably
aquals and may even exceed $20,000,000,000.
On the other hand, the companies included in this list are not
exclusively British. In numerous instances British capital is associated
 in these companies with local capital, or with French, Belgian,
German, Spanish, and Dutch capital. Hence the British investment
in these companies is doubtless less than the capitalization given
herewith. So far as known, however, British capital controls these
companies and comprises by far the greater part of the investment
therein.
Recapitulation.
Character of companies:
Steam railroads........... . .
Cable, telegraph, and telephone......
Other public utilities...........
Mining and similar companies...
[ndustrials........co.ooereoiiiainaan...
Plantations and similar companies..............
Trading, banking, and miscellaneous companies.

Total i onimate
capitalization,
*3, 142, 634, 000
170, 158, 000
973, 367, 000
1, 738, 211, 090
173, 955, 160
427,127, 540
1,774, 739, 836

- BR ea A BN SE Ww

Total. -

8. 400. 192. 626