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The port was declared open to foreign trade in March, 1891, but business did not actually commence until the 18th June, since which date a large trade has been done both in imports and exports, carried in foreign chartered junks. The net value of the trade in 1911 was Tls. 29,139,172 as compared with Tls. 32,306,023 in 1910. Rebellious disturbances in years past adversely affected trade, but recently the province has enjoyed comparative immunity in this respect. A rising, started in 1904 by a man who said he was commissioned by Heaven to wipe out the missionaries, was ruthlessly suppressed. One church was burned, and a few converts killed, and then "the Chinese officials caused shell to be fired into the mob until all (several hundred) were killed!" A local police force has been created.
The Yangtze is navigable for steamers from Ichang, not only to Chungking, but as far as Sui-fu, where the Min river joins the Yangtze, but before the Japanese war, steamers were not allowed to ascend above Ichang. By the Japanese Treaty of 1894, however, the right of steam navigation to Chungking was secured, and in the spring of 1898 the voyage was successfully accomplished by Mr. A. Little, with the sinall steamer Leechuen, which, however, being of limited power, had to be tracked up the rapids in the same way as junks. On 6th May, 1900, the two light-draught British gunboats Woodcock and Woodlark arrived from Ichang, having left that port on 5th April. The return journey occupied 25 steaming hours. On 12th June, the Yangtze Trading Company's steamer, the Pioneer, commenced her maiden voyage and arrived at Chungking on 20th June. This steamer was afterwards purchased by the British Government. Several steamers have since been built for the Upper Yangtsze. The German steamer Suiksiang was wrecked on her first voyage sixty miles above Ichang. In 1909 the Szechuen Steam Navigation Co. put on a steamer of special design constructed by Messrs. J. L. Thornycroft & Co. in England, so far with very satisfactory results.
DIRECTORY
房藁美大
AMERICAN DISPENSARY
J. McCartney, M.D., manager
L. W. McCartney, pharmacist
記瑞
ARNHOLD, Karberg & Co.
L A. Anderson, agent
P. E. Nettle, engineer
Kung-t'a-mee
BURTENSHAW, A. R. (residence in Hankow)
Tsai Tzu Chuen, agent
古太
Butterfield & SWIRE--Ching Yü-tsai, agt.
CARLOWITZ & Co.
H. Godat, manager
局楡商招 Chau Shang-yu-chii
CHINA MERCHANTS'STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Yek Kwei Chang, manager
司公壽保年永
Yung Nien pao sou kung shik
CHINA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE Co.
Mackenzie & Co., Ld., Agents
I-chang-yang-hang
COMPAGNIE FRANÇAISE DES INDES ET DE
L'EXTREME ORIENT
Head Office (India & Eastern French Trading Co.) Paris-19-19, bis Rue Richer; London Office 19-20, Water Lane, E.C.
J. C. Changeux, manager for Szechuen
Paul Bié
CONSULATES
FRANCE
Consul-Général (Chentu) P. Bons
d'Anty
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Vice-Consul Chancelier- -G. Gosebault Médecins Dr. J. Mouillac, Dr. Joseveau-Dubreuil, Dr. Poupelain Vice-Consul (Chungking)-A. Bodard
Medecin - Dr. Trividie
Chargé du Bureau de Poste-Seng Tse
Tchou
*** Ta Ying ling-shihya-men GREAT BRITAIN
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Acting Consul- W. R. Brown, also in charge of Austro-Hungarian interests Constable-E. Richmond
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