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WENCHOW
bamboos are kept on hand. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognizance of the Maritime Customs for 1919 was Hk. Tls. 4,062,117, as compared with Hk. Tls. 3,396,761 for 1918, Hk. Tls. 3,232,222 for 1917, and Hk. Tls. 3,505,313 for 1916.
During August and September of 1912 two abnormal freshets occurred in the Wênchow river, causing immense destruction of life and property. In the upper reaches of the main river the water rose 60 feet above normal level, washing away villages and carrying away houses bodily. Some 30,000 people are reported to have been drowned in the Yungchia, Chingtien, Ch'uchow and Juian magistracies. Such a calamity was unprecedented within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.
Two particularly severe typhoons in the summer of 1920 caused enormous damage in the neighbourhood. Haimen, a neighbouring city, about 85 miles by sea north-east of Wenchow, was partially destroyed on July 15th by a tidal wave with great loss of life; while in the Nanchi River valley, opposite Wenchow, an equally large loss of life was reported in the second typhoon between September 4th and 6th.
DIRECTORY
司油火亞細亞商英
Ying-shang-a-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Doric
司公煙美英華駐
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Powhattan
C. Cance, terrritory manager
F. P. Bahon, salesman
Wang Gin Yung, chief territory assist.
;司公船輪業商
CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
T. C. Sze, manager
Chue Tsing-fu, clerk in charge
Hsu-tan
S. Y. Chue
局政郵華中大州温
CHINESE POST OFFICE
First Class Postmaster-Deng Yong Yü
Postal Clerk-Ch'a Yung Sung
CONSULATES
門衙事領國英大
Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mên
GREAT BRITAIN
Actg. Consul-J. W. O. Davidson,
residing at Ningpo
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Consul-General in Shanghai-Edwin
S. Cunningham
關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-C. E. Tanant Assistant-K. Hirano
Do. -Wong Haiu Geng
Harbour
Acting Tidesurveyor and
Master-H. J. Christophersen Tidewaiters-H. Gaylard, R. West
MUSTARD & Co;-Tel. Ad: Mustard
C. Cance, representative
F. P. Bahon
PAO HUA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rev. C. Aroud
Rev. Prost
Rev. L. Marques
Rev. J. Salon
Rev. Boisard
院醫望若董州温
SOEURS DE LA CHARITE DE ST VINCENT DE
PAUL-Hopital Jean Gabriel
S. Ste Claire-Deville, sup.
S. Chauvel
S. Costorton
S. Rey S. Gonçalves S. François
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
S. K. Chu, manager