The actual control of the world’s tungsten deposits differs considerably from that indicated by the production within political areas. Actual control is justly obtained through ordinary competitive buying, ownership by nationals (sometimes by governments) of deposits, and through commercial alliance. Control through ownership of banks and transportation lines may be just or it may be by coercion and commercial brigandage, seizing ports for coaling and repair stations--methods that are merely refinements evolved since the days when “They sought their fortunes as they pleased abroad, the crown annoying them with no inquiry to embarrass their search for Spanish treasure ships, or their trade in pirated linens and silks.”[86] [86] WILSON, WOODROW. “A History of the American People,” vol. 1, p. 25. TABLE 29.--ACTUAL CONTROL OF THE WORLD’S TUNGSTEN OUTPUT IN 1917 AND 1918. IN SHORT TONS OF 2,000 POUNDS --------------------------+-------------------+-------------------- | 1917 | 1918 --------------------------+--------+----------+--------+---------- | |Percentage| |Percentage |Quantity|of world’s|Quantity|of world’s | | output | | output --------------------------+--------+----------+--------+---------- British: | | | | _Possessions_ | | | | Burma and Shan States | 4,600 | | 4,870 | Federated Malay States| 853 | | 920 | Trengganu | 350 | | 350 | Johore and Kedah | 200 | | 582 | India | 75 | | 46 | Australia | 1,404 | | 1,662 | New Zealand | 241 | | 146 | England | 265 | | 330 | South Africa | 24 | | 37 | +--------+ +--------+ | 8,012 | 28.4 | 8,943 | 24.9 | | | | _Obtained through trade | | | | and political pressure_ | | | | Japan and Korea | | | | (including ores for | | | | France) | 790 | | None | China and Hongkong | | | | (including ores for | | | | France) | 1,105 | | 900 | Siam | 600 | | 600 | Billiton and Singkep | 60 | | 60 | Argentina } (including| | | | Bolivia } ores for | 2,035 | | 950 | Peru } France) | | | |