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hands of foreigners promise to assume large proportions. Silk thread and silk twist are largely made and exported from here to France and America. Chefoo uses a large percentage of the cocoons from Corea and Manchuria that come to China. There is now a large trade in hair-net making. English firms send out the hair, which is sent into the interior of the province and made into nets by children. A company began the erection of a plant for refining salt in 1920. Chefoo was con- nected in 1900 by telegraph cables with Tientsin, Port Arthur, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Shanghai.
The net value of the trade of the port for 1920 was Hk. Tls. 37,838,877, as compared with Hk. Tls. 37,683,137 in 1919, and Hk. Tls. 30,835,885 in 1918.
Chefoo is two days' journey from Shanghai, and communication is maintained by the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., the China Merchants' S. N. Co., and the China Navigation Co. Chefoo is an important port of call for large numbers of regular line and tramp steamers, being in the line of communication between Indian, South China, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian ports and the ports in the north. During the season from March to December as many as twenty to thirty steamers per day often enter and clear the port. The port supplies Vladivostock and Siberia with upwards of one hundred thousand coolies annually; the coolies leave for Vladivostock during the spring months, and those returning reach Chefoo in the latter part of the year This movement of coolies furnishes business for numbers of steamers.
DIRECTORY
Arnaud-Coste, A., & R, V. Dent, Raw Silks, Pongees, Waste Silk Merchants and General Exporters-Tel. Ad: Arcodent
A. Arnaud Coste, partner (Shanghai) R. V. Dent,
do.
do.
E. H. Casey, manager, signs per pro.
W. Malcolm
Agents
Phoenix Assnce. Co., Ld., Lond. (Fire
and Marine)
司公油火亞細亞商英
Ying-Shang-A-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric
A. J. H. Carey (absent)
H. B. Dickson
ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL (facing sea)-Teleph.
66; Tel. Ad: Astor-Astor Cinema
E. Berruchon
Mrs. C. Nielsen
行銀通交台烟
BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS
E. W. Chun, manager
C. A. Chun, secretary
Seun King Hae, cashier
Sa Yang Ping, accountant
W. K. Chun Y. S. Wong
司公烟美英
Ying-May-Yen-Kung Ssu
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA), LTD.--Tel. Ad: Powhattan; all Codes
F. L. White, manager
BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE V. R. Eckford, chairman
A. Rouse, hon. secy.
W. Lyttle, hon. treas.
Brunner, Mond & Co. (China), Ltd,
C. B. Cook, actg, district manager
Agencies
British Dyestuffs Corpn., Ld.
Borax Consolidated
Castner, Kellner Alkali Co., Ld.
Chance & Hunt
Mond, Nickel Co., Ld.
United Alkali Co., Ld.
Chiswick Boot Polish Co., Ld.
Reckitt & Sons, Ld.
J. & J. Colman, Ld.
古太 Tai-Koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire & Sons,
Ltd.), Merchants
A. H. Gillingham, signs per pro.
A. Laing
Agencies
China Navigation Co., Ld. Ocean Steam Ship Co., Ld.
China Mutual S. N. Co., Ld.