Agencies
CHUNGKING-HANGCHOW
Hongkong & Shanghai Bankg. Corpn. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.
London & Lancashire Fire Insce. Co.,Ld. North China Insurance Co., Ld.
Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada
Phoenix Life Insurance Co.
China Mutual Life Insce. Co., Ld.
Shanghai Life Insurance Co., Ld.
司公船輪清日
NISSHIN KIsen Kaisha
PHILIPPIDI, C. M., Watchmaker, Jeweller
and General Importer - Tel. Ad: Philippidi
PHILIPPIDI & Co., C. M., Importers
C. M. Philippidi
Tong Ping-hen, manager
局理管務郵川東 Tung Chwan Yu Wu Kuan Li Chu
POST OFFICE (Eastern Szechwan District) -Head Office: Chungking; Tel. Ad:
Postos. Sub-Offices: Shensikai, Siao- liangtze, Taliangtze, Shihpati, Kiangpeh and Shihtzeshan. Subordinate Offices: 75; Agencies: 304; Rural Box-Offices: 117
Commissioner-O. Mellows
Acting Deputy Commr.-W. O'Neill Postmaster (Wanhsien)-S. Tomaeff District Staff: 40 Clerks and 1346
subordinate employés
源聚
REPRESENTATIVE OF BRITISH MANUFAC-
TURES, LTD.
來大
ROBERT DOLLAR Co.
A. C. Flemming, foreign manager
W. F. Arnat
H. C. Wei, Chinese manager
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
F. R. Hykes, manager
F. G. Green
H. C. Reed
C. H. Williams
J. H. Morrison, const. supt.
J. H. Schwer, installation supt.
J. Stamm
H. W. Mills
司公限有德蜀
919
SZECHWAN HANDELS-GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.
P. R. Schuchardt
福聚
UNION FRANCO-CHINOISE DE NAVIGATION
M. Charrier, manager (absent)
A. Lordereau, acting manager
司公船輪江提
YANGTZE RAPID STEAMSHIP Co.
Drake, manager
YOUNG BROTHERS TRADING Co., Import
and Export Merchants and Commis- sion Agents-Hsin Fêng Kai; Tel. Ad: Yangbrosco
S. C. Yang, mang. director (Harbour) J. Li, sub-manager, director A. W. Davidson, secretary P. C. Low, local manager
HANGCHOW
A t Háng-chau
Hangchow, the capital of the province of Chekiang, is situated 120 miles south- west of Shanghai, and 110 miles south of Soochow, adjacent to the Chien-tang River (the Green River of Robert Fortune's famous journeys to the neighbouring tea districts), at the apex of a bay which is too shallow for the navigation of steamers. The mouth of the river is, moreover, visited by a bore, or tidal wave, which further endangers navigation. The highest bores occur in autumn during the three days after the middle of the eighth moon, and Haining is the best place for observing this famous phenomenon, which is formed by the north-east trade wind heaping up the water of the Pacific on the China coast and causing enormous tides. Hangchow Bay is ahaped like a funnel, and the mass of water rushing up, more and more concentrated as it advances, is suddenly confronted by the current of the river. The constriction and opposition, acting in concert, bank up the rising water. Gathering momentum and