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CHUNGKING-HANGCHOW
Ecole Française-Louis-Eraste, dir.
Paul Xavier, Joseph Claudius, profs. Séminaires-Perrodin, Caluraud
* Yun-sen-kong-kouan
VICARIAT APOSTOLIQUE DU SU'TCHUEN
MERIDIONAL (SUIFU)
Evêché Chatagnon, évêque
Moutot, provicaire
de Guébriant, id.
Fayolle, P. procureur Cathédrale-Renault, curé Ecole Française-Piard Hôpital--Bénézet, aumônier ; mère Ste. Cène, supérieure; Félicie
Samuel, Longin, Anizia, Visi- tion
Séminaire Scherrier, supérieur;
Carrisse, professeur: Brotte, pro- fesseur
Probatorium-Jouve, supérieur
司公船輪清日
NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA
Y. Nakagawa
PLANT, CAPT. S. C., Upper Yangtze
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Deputy Postmaster-H. G. C. Perry-
Ayscough
Postal assistant-A. L. Kauffmaun
Postal Officers-M. E. Summers, W.
Ortolani
Postal Officer-O. Mellows (Chengtu)
POSTE FRANÇAISE
Postmaster-E. Colin
美泰公
Kung-t'a-mee
SPENCELEY, S. A. (residence in Hankow)
Tsai Tzu Chuen, agent
Wang Shing Pai, clerk
SUN LIFE INSURANCE Co.
Mackenzie & Co., Ld., agents
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TELEGRAPH-CHINESE IMPERIAL ADMINI-
STRATION
Ling Fûh He, manager
Sun Wan-Kwei,
L. C. Sun, controller of Szechuen
Twanno Pang-Fan, clerk-in-charge
Chentu
局報電都成
Chow Pao-Chen, manager
Chên Tzu Sho, clerk-in-charge
Chungking
局報電慶重
S. P. Cheng, manager
Shu Yen Chih, clerk-in-charge
處報電署督川
Department in Viceroy's Yamen
K. Y. Whang, clerk-in-charge
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WILLIAMS, C. E., merchant
HANGCHOW
H A Háng-chau
Hangchow, the capital of the province of Chekiang, is situated 150 miles south west of Shanghai, and 127 miles south of Soochow, on the Chien-tang River, at the apex of a bay which is too shallow for the navigation of steamers. The mouth of the river is, moreover, periodically visited by a bore, or tidal wave, which further endangers the navigation. Haining is the best place for observing this famous bore, which is formed by the north-east trade wind heaping up the water of the Pacific on the China coast and causing enormous tides. Hangchow Bay is shaped like a funnel, and the mass of water rushing up, more and more concentrated as it advances, is sud- denly confronted by the current of the river. The momentary check causes the water to assume a wall-like formation; then, growing to a height of 15ft. at spring tides and gathering momentum with the immense pressure behind, forcing its volume into the comparatively narrow waterway, it tears past the sea-wall with a roar like thunder at a rate sometimes reaching 12 miles an hour. Before the Taiping rebellion Hangchow
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