SOOCHOW--CHINKIANG
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POLICE
Superintendent—A. Olsen
Inspector-
2 inptrs., 68 sergeants and constables
局政郵清大
Post Office—IMPERIAL CHINESE
District Postmaster-F. A. Morgan
District Postal Officer--A. H. Allen
Mitu Bridge Office
Asst. Clerks-Tsê Pau Yü C. Lan
Sung, Ling Hsieh Tsao
City Office
Clerks - Tung E Wo, Wong Ling
Chang, Sze Ding Bing
Wusih Office
Clerk-Shen Lü Sung
Changshu Office
Clerk-Yü Pang Chi
局便郵州蘇本日大
Ta-jih-pen Soo-chow-yu-pien-chü
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL JAPANESE
Postmaster-N. T. Oka
Postal Officer-Y. Nakano
Assistant Clerk-Y. Nakajima
****¤ Tung-woo-ta-hok-tong SOоCHOW UNIVERSITY
President-Rev. D. L. Anderson
Professors-N.G. Gee, R. S. Anderson,
R. D. Smark
Soo KING SILK FILATURE
Chou Hon-ying, director
Minoretti
廠紗箱蘇 Soo-lung-svu-chang
SOO LUNG COTton Spinning MILL Co., Ld.
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
Clerk J. Berthelot
CHINKIANG
II. Đt Chin-kiêng
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 Chinkiang 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 Government, 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 T's'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. On December 23rd 1904, a big subsidence of the river bank occurred carrying away some godowns at the lower end of the Bund, and a large number of Chinese were drowned. The population of Chinkiang is estimated at 140,000.
The foreign imports have shown a continuous advance, the net value in 1903 being Tls. 21,073,263. The net value of the trade of the port for 1903 amounted to Tls. 34,439,707.
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UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN