SOOCHOW-CHINKIANG
局郵政府大
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
District Postal Officer--C. H. Shields
Mitu Bridge Office
Asst. Postal Officer-C. H. Shields
Do. Clerk-Tse Pau Yü
City Office
Postal Clerk-Tung E Wo
Asst. Do. Wong Ling Chang
Wusih Office
Asst. Postal Clerk-C. Lan Sung
Do.
Changshu Office
--Sun Lee Song
Asst. Postal Clerk-Chang Ting-hsi
局便郵州蘇日本大
Ta-jih-pen Soo-chow-yu-pien-chi
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL JAPANESE
Postmaster-N. T. Oka
Assistant Clerk-T. Sato
SOO KING SILK FILATURE
Chou Hon-ying, director
Minoretti
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输蘇
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Soo LUNG COTTON SPINNING MILL Co., Lv.
Cho Sou-ying, C.Q., general manager
Walter C. Wood, M.I.M.E., manager
Won Me-foo, assistant manager
興蘇
Soo SIN & Co., Merchants
T. Hayashi
司公船輸東大
TAITO STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
K. Kaizu
WU SING SILK FILATURE
Ting Ju-ling, manager
CHINKIANG
Chin-king
The port of Chinkiang (or Chên-kiang-fu), which was declared open to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin, is situated on the Yangtsze, about 150 miles from its mouth, and at the point where the Grand Canal enters the river.
The history of Chinking possesses but few features of interest. The town, as a translation of its name implies (“River Guard "), was at one time a post of considerable importance from a military point of view, when all the rice-tribute from the south of China was transported to Peking by the interior route. The British forces captured the place in July, 1842, and as the cutting off of supplies always operates with great effect, the commanding situation thus secured was not long in producing the desired result upon the Central Goverument, for the Treaty of Nanking was signed a month afterwards. The Taiping rebels entered the town in April, 1853, and continued to occupy it till 1857, when they had to evacuate it from the same cause which had made the Government yield fifteen years before.
The city lies between one of the mouths of the Grand Canal and the right bank of the Yangtsze. Most of the houses are built on level ground, but the surrounding hills lend a pleasant appearance to the locality, which is considerably enhanced by the bluff scenery of the island of Ts'io-shan. When the city was abandoned by the rebel forces, its destruction was very nearly complete, and it has even now hardly recovered its former prosperous aspect. The city is enclosed by walls and defended by rather formidable looking batteries commanding the river approaches. The foreign settlement occupies a tract of land extending from the mouth of the Canal along the bank of the river. The little settlement has a neat bund, is provided with a club, and has small Protestant and Catholic churches. It was the scene of a formidable riot on the 5th February, 1889, when about half the foreign houses and buildings were destroyed by a native mob. The population of Chinkiang is estimated at 140,000.
The net value of the foreign imports for 1900 was Tls. 12,865,321 as compared with Tls. 14,655,821 in 1899. The import of Opium into Chinkiang in 1900 was 3,959 piculs, against 4,339 piculs in 1899, and 10,900 piculs in 1884, the trade having declined owing to the competition of the lighter taxed native drug. The net value of the trade of the port for 1900 amounted to Tls. 23,206,055, against Tls. 25,691,928 in 1899.
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