YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD, THE (Yokohama Shokin Ginko). This bank was founded in 188o with an author ised capital of Yen 3,000,00o with the object of affording financial facilities in respect of the foreign trade of Japan. Subsequently, its capital was increased several times until it stood at Yen ioo, 000,00o, all paid up by December 1920.
The business carried on by the bank consists of (I) foreign ex change, (2) inland exchange, (3) loans, (4) deposits of money and custody of articles of value, (5) discount and collection of bills of exchange, promissory notes and other securities, and (6) exchange of coins. The bank may also buy or sell public bonds, gold and silver bullion, and foreign coins, if so required by the condition of its business. It may also be entrusted with matters relating to foreign loans and with the management of public money for international account.
The head office of the bank is in Yokohama, and there are 44 branches, 7 of which are in Japan and the remainder distributed throughout China, Manchuria, Europe, North and South America, India, Australia and the East Indies. On the 3oth June, 1928, the ordinary reserve fund of the bank was raised to Yen I 02, 5 oo,000, actually exceeding the capital, while a special reserve for bad debts was over Yen 4,000,00o. (D. No.) YOKOSUKA, a seaport and naval station of Japan, on the west shore of Tokyo Bay, 12 m. south of Yokohama. The town is connected by a branch line with the main railway from Tokyo. The port is sheltered by hills and affords good anchorage. The site was occupied by a small fishing village until 1865, when the shogun's government established a shipyard here. In 1868 the Japanese government converted the shipyard into a naval dockyard, and subsequently carried out many improvements. In
1884 it became a first-class naval station. Pop. (1930) 110,301. YOLA, a native state of British West Africa, forming the major part of the province of Adamawa, Northern Nigeria. In the partition of Africa part of Adamawa fell to Germany and was included in the Cameroons. The British part was known as the province and emirate of Yola. In 1919 the former Ger man part of Adamawa came under British mandate and was in corporated with Yola. In 1926 the name of the province and emirate was changed to Adamawa. By the people the Fula ruler is known as the Lamido of Adamawa. The capital is Yola, a town founded by the Fula conqueror Adama about the middle of the 19th century. The town is situated in 9° 12' N., 12° 4o' E. and is built on the left or south bank of the Benue, 48o m. by river from Lokoja. It can be reached by shallow draught steamers when the river is in flood. The Niger Company had trading rela tions with Yola before the establishment of British administra tion in Northern Nigeria.
In 1903 an exploring expedition was sent up the Gongola, which coming from the north joins the Benue below Yola, and, the navigability of the river for steam launches as far as Gombe at high water was demonstrated. The Gongola valley was in ancient times extensively cultivated and after the establishment of the British protectorate it again became a prosperous agri cultural region. Cotton and food crops are cultivated.
Adamawa province has an area of 33,424 sq.m. and a pop.
(1926) of See NIGERIA ; ADAMAWA, and the Annual Report on the Northern Provinces, Nigeria (Kaduna), first issued in 1928.