TAINAN-FU, TAKOW, AND ANPING
The city of Tainan-fu [until 1889 known as Taiwan], situated in lat. 23 deg. 6 min. N. and long, 129 deg. 5 min. E., is the commercial capital of Formosa, and has a population of 250,000 inhabitants. It is for an Eastern city moderately clean and well paved. The walls are some five miles in circumference. The shipping port of Tainan-fu is Anping, situated on the coast about three miles to the eastward of the city and connected with the suburbs by a creek. The port is an open roadstead, vessels having to anchor a mile or so from the beach. From the 1st November to the end of May the anchorage is a perfectly safe one, but during the S. W. monsoon a heavy swell sets in, rendering it difficult, and at times impossible, for vessels to load or discharge. Anping has of late risen greatly in importance, the foreign firms making it their head quarters instead of Takow, which port in former years was considered of more gnificance. Tempered by sea breezes, Anping during the summer months can boast of a cool climate, though pernicious malarial fever in all its forms is the prevalent type both there and in the city of Tainan itself. From 1st October to the end of April there is little or no rain, and the temperature leaves nothing to be desired. Sugar is the principal export of South Formosa. In 1894 the export was 671,974 piculs, since when there has been a considerable falling off, the crops for the past three years scarcely exceeding 300,000 piculs. The value of the whole trade of the port in 1894 was Tls. 4,388,547 as compared with Tls. 3,295,869 in 1893; but now that the opium trade has ceased, having become a Government monopoly, the returns, of course, are materially diminished.
Takow is a port twenty-four miles to the southward of Anping. It takes little or no share in the import trade, but is a principal centre for the sugar export trade.
The last stand against the Japanese was made at Tainan-fu, Takow, and Anping, by Liu Yung-fu, the Black Flag General. Takow was bombarded on the 15th October and the resistance collapsed without any serious fighting, and Tainan-fu and Anping were occupied on the 21st October.
DIRECTORY
ANPING LAUNCH COMPANY
Bain & Co., managers
記怡 Ee.kee
BAIN & CO., Merchants
A. W. Bain
H. W. Arthur, signs per pro.
Ko Thieng Sang
Agencies
Hongkong and S'hai. Banking Corpn. Bank of China and Japan, Limited Norddeutscher Lloyd
Douglas Steamship Company, Limited Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited China Navigation Company Canadian Pacific Railway Company Lloyd's
Canton Insurance Office, Limited China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited British Foreign Marine Insur'ce Co. South British Fire and Marine Ins. Co. New York Life Insurance Company Nouveau Lloyd Suisse Takow Tug Company Anping Launch Company
BROWN & CO., Merchants
C. S. Powell (Amoy)
Kung-tai
BUTLER & Co., A., Merchants
Count A. Butler (Shanghai) Paul Schabert (Tamsui) R. N. Ohly,
Y. Kitamura
Agency
do.
Royal Dutch Petroleum Co., Langkat
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN
also
AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, Consulate DENMARK, Consular Agency FRANCE, Consular Agency GERMANY, Vice Consulate
UNITED STATES, Consular Agency
Consul-W. J. Kenny
First Assistant and pro-Consul—
Ernest A. Griffiths
NETHERLANDS
Consul-A. W. Bain
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