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MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI
ordinary ports of call; and while from Shimonoseki the Sanyo Railway taps the North, from Moji the Kiushiu Railway taps the South of Japan. Excellent foreign accommodation can be had at the Shimonoseki Station Hotel, belonging to the Imperial Railway Bureau. This Railway has also two large ferry boats plying between Moji and the Shimonoseki Station, while a ten-minute ferry plies between the usual landing places at Moji and Shimonoseki. Both towns have municipal waterworks, are lit by electricity, and are connected by telephone with the principal towns, from Kagoshima and Nagasaki in the South, to Tokyo in the North East. Imports at Moji for 1915 amounted to Yen 23,200,974, and exports to Yen 18,604,378- less in each case than the figures for the previous year. Imports consist prin- cipally of machinery, iron ore, sugar, raw cotton, and flour; and exports of coal, cotton yarn, and sugar. The coal exported to foreign countries exclusive of that sup- plied for bunkers from Moji in 1915 amounted to 414,783 tons, valued at Yen 2,634,722. At Shimonoseki the imports were valued at Yen 1,208,326 and the exports at Yen 2,055,326. The Korean trade returns of the two ports, which are not included in the foregoing figures, show imports valued at Yen 9,012,922 and exports valued at Yen 10,323,550. The population of Shimonoseki at the end of 1915 was 72,041 and 76 foreigners, and of Moji 74,811 and 133 foreigners. It should be specially noted that photographing and sketching are forbidden within a radius of ten miles round Shimo- noseki and Moji on land and sea. The law in this respect is strictly enforced and ignorance is not accepted as an excuse.
DIRECTORY
BABCOCK & WILCOX, LTD.-Uchihama-cho
Itchome; Teleph. 689
BIRNIE, LEONARD, Steamship Agent, Char- tering, Insurance, Coal, Surveying, Cem- ent. Charcoal, Graphite, and Fire Bricks -Higashi Hon Machi; P.O. Box 16; Tel. Ad: Leonard, Moji; Code A. B. C. 5th Edition
Agencies
Sub-
The American Asiatic S. S. Co. James Craig Engine and Machine
Work-Diesel Engines for marines and Ocean Vessels United Metal Hose Co., Inc., Flexible Metal Hose for Water, Air, Gas, Steam, High Pressure, etc.
Asiatic Export and Import Co., Inc.
Browne & Co., Merchants--3,338 Kiu,
Moji; Teleph. 260
C. M. Birnie, partner
M. Birnie,
do.
E. St. J. Birnie, do.
J. R. Gibson, signs per pro.
Agencies
Apcar Line of Steamers
British India Steam Nav. Co., Ld. North China Insurance Company, Ld. Yangtsze Insurance Asstn., Limited P. & O. Steam Navigation Company Java-China-Japan Line of Steamers British Dominions Gen. Insce. Co. Ld. C. Hoare & Co., Bankers, London Cunard Steamship Co., Ld.
CITY COMMERCIAL SCHOOL-Shimonoseki
A. W. Hills, English instructor
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN (Consulate at Shimo- noseki; Branch Shipping Office at Moji); Teleph. 705, Shimonoseki
Consul-E Hamilton Holmes Shipping Clerk-J. A. Marston
NORWAY
Vice-Consul-N. B. Reid
CUSTOM HOUSE
Director--G. Kawasaki
Controller-C. Furuta
Secretariat-A. Kaku
Chief Examiner and Chief Appraiser
-Y. Kanase
Chief of Collectors' Office-Y. Nagai
Do. Accounts. do.-T. Koyama Do. Shimonoseki (East)-K. Tatebe Do. do. (West)-R. Toyotomi
HARBOUR OFFICE
Harbour Master-N. Cho Chief Boarding Officer-K. Akashi
Do. Quarantine do. -N. Fujimura Do. Medical do. -M. Owada Do. Veterinary do. -K. Kumai
HELM BROS., LTD., Stevedores, Landing, Shipping, Forwarding Agents and Cus- toms Brokers-14, B. Naniwa Machi, Teleph. 1489 (Sannomiya); P. O. Box 147 L. J. Healing, chairman of directors
Yokohama