Excerpt from The American Statesmen's Yearbook, 1912: From Official Reports of the United Government, State Reports, Consular Advices, and Foreign Documents The American Statesman's Yearbook is a current reference work supplementing every encyclopedia. It begins where such works leave 03, and gives the busy reader a review of every country in the world as it appears at the present time. It is called a Statesman's yearbook, because compiled strictly from official sources at Washington, from every State capital, and from foreign countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.