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PEI-TAI-HO-NEWCHWANG
the population was slightly over four hundred, chiefly from mission stations of Chih-li. There were three major and tv Shore, Rocky Point and East Cliff being the designator settlements were wholly destroyed on and after 20th June, and Peking laymen were at West Shore; it had the adva Hills and the Station, and had more pleasing scenery near a somewhat tame beach-nothing but sand-and inferior 1 to stinging medusa or jelly fish, and to the nearness of discolours the water: both demerits have, however, been exɛ were chiefly at Rocky Point; there they had an Association tenure, sanitation, Sunday observance, etc. A strong bo west of this 'Association' settlement, attracted by the centra bathing. The East Cliff was originally a mission investn general settlement. Some thirty or forty foreign visitors ▾ the Boxer cyclone burst were taken off by the boats of H. to Chefoo in June; immediately after which the natives joi in first looting and then burning every house in the place. 1 scrap of the building material that was portable; even t and in some cases they actually dug up the foundations. T} and not to anti-foreign malice as a matter of fact, they had with their foreign neighbours, to whose presence they enti The 1-Ho-Chüan or Boxer sect is not known to have had a The people simply believed the foreigners were to be exte return; and in this belief resolved to resume possession else as was possible. During 1901-2 the German forces made roads; a small gauge steam tramway was also cons Station to Rocky Point. In the early spring of 1902 man and during the summer quite a number of families we season. The rains are heavy in July and early August, bu to be out of doors at once after a heavy rain. The tempe below that of Peking and Tientsin in the height of summ as the prevailing breeze is nearly south and is sea-borne.
NEWCHWANG
莊牛 Niu-chwang 子營 Yin
Newchwang is the most northerly port in China open to in the province of Shing-king, in Manchuria. It is called lies about thirteen miles from the mouth of the river Liao, Liao-tung, a continuation of the Gulf of Pechili.
Before the port was opened, comparatively little was Central Kingdom. Manchuria has since, however, been larg who now outnumber the natives. The word Ying-tz mean was the only use formerly made of the port. Between th British fleet assembled in Ta-lien-wan Bay, and early in 180 established. The town of Newchwang itself is distant from and is a sparsely populated and uninteresting place, but the is rapidly increasing its importance. At the end of 1899 tl line (Russian) between Port Arthur, Dalny (Talienwan), a chias, whence a branch runs to this port, was completed Imperial Chinese Railway line from Tientsin to Yingkow w These lines are now completed and there is a train servic Systematic attack has also at last been made upon the churia, the Eastern Chinese Railway having opened coal Tz'uêrh-shan near Liao-yang, and at Wa-fung-tien in peninsula. The railway line runs close to these valuable [ gold-bearing districts of Tung Wha and Tieling are als companies. An unprecedented expansion in trade has accor