880
SHASI
were driven out of the port, narrowly escaping with their lives. The Custom-house was re-opened on the 1st July of the same year. In August, 1898, an area 3,800 Chinese feet in length, by 800 to 1,200 in breadth, lying along the riverside below the town, was assigned to Japan as a Japanese Concession. The foreign commerce is mostly in Japanese hands.
The British Consulate was withdrawn in January, 1899, British interests being placed under the care of the Consul at Ichang. Calling steamers anchor in the river, which is very swift during the summer, and discharge and load at pontoons, but some bunding work, commenced in December, 1904, and finished in April, 1905, provided berths for three hulks, with jetties. Unfortunately, in 1908 this bund" for over two-thirds of its length went bodily into the river owing to the action of the water coming from inland carrying away sand from beneath the stone work. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognizance of the Foreign Customs was Hk. Tls. 7,780,037 in 1921, as compared with Hk. Tls. 7,567,551 in 1920, Hk: Tls. 7,573,548 in 1919, and Hk. Tls. 6,362,492 in 1918. The bulk of the carrying trade is, however, carried on by junks, which do not come under the control of the Foreign Customs In December, 1913, a contract was entered into between the Chinese- Government and the British firm of Pauling & Co. for the construction of a railway from a point opposite Shasi to Singyifu in the province of Kweichow vid Changteh. and Kweiyang, with a branch from Changteh to Changsha. Good progress was made in the survey of this projected railway until the outbreak of the European war and consequent necessity for a temporary cessation of operations led to the recall of the engineers. It is reported that so many lakes and morasses lie in the direct survey of the Shasi-Changteli section that a détour to the west, through more productive country, may be necessary. The l'u Chao Electric Light Co. suspended business in August, 1921. A telephone service was introduced in March, 1921.
亞細亞 A-si-a
DIRECTORY
ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD.-Tel. Ad:
Doric
H. B. Dickson
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCo Co. (CHINA),
LTD.
A. B. Glass, manager
J. W. Boddie
G. H. Enderby
BULIN & CO., LTD., Exporters and Importers
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ltd.)
Sung King Sing, agent
Agents
China Navigation Co., Ld.
Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.
CHINA MERCHANT'S STEAM NAVIGATION CO.
CONSULATES
GREA 'BRITAIN-Tel: Ad: Britain,
Ichang
Acting Consul.-J. B. Affleck
門衙事領本日大
Ta-Jih-pen-ling.shi-ya-men
JAPAN
In Charge of Consulate-H. Nagaoka-
Chief of Police K. Mutoh
BUT 20 Shasi Kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Acting Commissioner-L. Peel
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-
W. J. Hood
Assist. Examiner—A. C. G. Stewart Tidewaiter-R. Ferreira
和怡
E-Wo
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.
Agents
Indo-China S. N. Co., Ld.
MITSUBISHI & Co., Exporters and Im-
porters
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
Postmaster-Hwong Kai-tel
POST OFFICE, JAPANESE
Postmaster-K. Shimosaka Assistant-S. Tsuchiya
SANHO YOKO, General Store
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK