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SHASI-CHANGSHA
DIRECTORY
亞細亞 A-i-a
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD., THE-Tel.
Ad Doric
I. F. Drysdale
BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.(CHINA), LD.
S. A. Vincent, manager C. W. Stocks
BULIN & CO., LTD.,Exporters and Importers
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ld.)
Sun-Chik sen, agent
Agents
China Navigation Co, Ld.
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
Y. Y. Shu, manager
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN- Tel: Ad: Britain,
Ichang
Consul-J. L. Smith (resident at
Ichang)
門衙事領本日大
Ta-Jih-pen-ling-shi-ya-men
JAPAN
In Charge of Consulate-Y. Tomita
Chief of Police-J. Nakajima
關市沙 Shasi Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Acting Commissioner-H.
Gröne
Dawson-
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-
W. McF. Robb
Asst. Examiner R. Dudley Tidewaiters-A. C. G. Stewart, F. L.
Wilson
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
MITSUBISHI & Co., Exporters and Im-
porters
NISSIN & CO. (Japan Cotton Trading Co.)
NISSIN KISSEN KAISHA (Japan - China
Steamship Co., Ld.)
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
POST OFFICE, JAPANESE
Postmaster-K. Shimosaka Assistant-G. Inouye
SANHO YOKO, General Store
O. Arao
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
R. W. Mooney, manager
D. C. Sims
YOSHIDA & Co., Exporters and linporters
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 (Yu 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
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