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SHASI-CHANGSHA
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD., THE Tu Hsuen-chen sub.-agent
CONSULATES
GERMANY-Tel. Ad: Germania
DIRECTORY
Consul-Dr. R. Walter (residing at
Ichang) (absent)
Acting Consul-Dr. E. Bracklo
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul--W. Meyrick Hewlett, C.M.G.
(residing at Ichang)
JAPAN
Chancellor-in-charge--Y. Hida
Police Inspect r-H. Monma
關市沙 Shasi Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner
Assistant-M. Miyoshi
Tidesurveyor-R. Henkel
Tidewaiters-E. A. Cull, A. Hutchinson
METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN
Meteorologist-T. Adachi
MISSIONS
(For Protestant Missionaries see separate "Directory")
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rov. Father Marcel Marcel
Sterkendries
(Kingchow) Rev. F. Mathias VI minck (Kingchow) Rev. F. Piat Wantz (Kingchow) Rev. F. A. Merchiers (Changkinpo) Rev. F. Hubert Adons (Kingmen) Rev. F. Thomas Kempenaers (Shasi) Rev. F. Leon Lippens (Yangki) Rev. F. C. Clement (Kienyangyi) Rev. F. S Melissen (Shihhueikiao) Rev. F. Felix Mevis (Shasi)
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
First Class Postmaster-Lo Han Foo
POST OFFICE, JAPANESE
Postmaster-M. Tejima
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
H. A. Baldwin, manager
CHANGSHA
Chang-sha
Changsha ("Long Sands"), the capital city of Hunan, situated on the right bank of the Hsiang River about 100 miles South of Yochow, became a Treaty port under the China-Japan Commercial Treaty of 1903, a Customs House being established on 1st July, 1904. The surrounding country is hilly and very picturesque, affording delightful walks and picnics. Opposite to the city rises Yolushan hill to the height of about 800 feet. On it is a large stone tablet (Ya Pei) recounting the mastery of the floods that once covered an enormous tract of Central China. It was placed there by order of the Great Yü, founder of the Hsia Dynasty, B.c. 2205. (See Williams' Middle Kingdom, Vol. II., pp. 149-151.) The magnificent timber on the South of the hill, extending from the Yolushan High School, enclosing the Confucian and the Buddhist temples, and extend- ing to the Taoist temple at the top-whence a beautiful view to the South can be obtained-is well worth a visit from travellers. The school dates back many hundred years and was once one of the most famous in this land of scholars, and under its present excellent management it promises once more to do excellent work for the province. Among the cities of China, Changsha ranks only second to Chengtu; the fine buildings, well laid-out gardens, the wide and clean streets, the good shops, render a walk a pleasant experience. The stone bunding work, extending from the West Gate to the New River," beyond the North extremity of the city, a distance of about 3 miles, is making good progress; it is expected that a 50-foot-wide carriage road now in course