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CHINKIANG CLUB
CHINKIANG-NANKING
CONCESSION ELECTRIC LIGHT AND WATER
WORKS
門衙事頜英大
Ta-ying-ling-sz-ya-mun
CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN
Acting Consul-E. G. Jamieson
Medical Officer-S. G. Kirkby-Gomes,
F.R.C.S. (Edin.)
Constable-J. Wisher
Writer-Kuo Hsiu-po
COUNTRY Club
Chin-kiang-kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-C. N. Holwill Assistant-G. V. L. Gerli
Medical Officer-J. B. Woods, jr.
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-
T. H. Smith
Acting Boat Officer-G. B. Appleton Examiners-A. Nichol, J. H. Hunter H. C. Hyatt, E. B. da Rosa and G. T. MacLaughlin
Tidewaiters--G. T. MacLaughlin, V. C. Spink, F. E. Ferguson, E. M. Popov and C. La Grande
Fu
Fung-ho
GEARING & Co., Merchants and Commis-
sion Agents
Mrs. E. Starkey
Agency
Yangtsze Insurance Association, Ld.
Fu 14 E-wo 和怡
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants
G. Purton, agent
Agencies
Indo-China S. N. Co., Ld.-Tel. Ad:
Inchoy
Canton Insurance Office, Ld.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
POST OFFICE
Postmaster-Chang Yung Ch'ang
李美 Mei-foo
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK-Telephs.
115 (Office) and 116 (Installation); Tel.
Ad: Socony
B. M. Smith, manager
L.C. Jones
H. Barton
|_ C. A. Nichols
D. O. Tilburn, installation supt.
局報電國中
Chung-kwoh-dien-pao-chuk
TELEGRAPHS, CHINESE
K. L. Wong, manager
S. Tam, clerk-in-charge
C. Y. Lee, assistant
NANKING
Kiáng-ning
The city owes its present name, "Southern capital," to having been many times the capital of the Empire, the last occasion being in the Ming dynasty at the commencement of the 15th century. Nanking is also known as Kiang Ning Fu, being the chief city of the prefecture of Kiang Ning, and the seat of government for the provinces grouped under the designation of Kiang Nan. In official documents it is not considered proper to call the city Nanking, since the Government at Peking acknowledges but one capital. Besides Kiang Ning Fu, an elegant Chinese name commonly used is Kin Ling or "golden mound." From the 5th or 6th century B.C. to the present there has been a walled city at this place. Nanking was specified in the French Treaty of 1858 as one of the Yangtze ports to be opened to trade, but it was not formally opened until May, 1899. In July, 1915, Pukow, the southern terminus of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway (lying across the river from Nanking), was opened to foreign trade as a branch office of the Nanking Customs.
Nanking is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze, 45 miles beyond Chinkiang and 193 by rail or 215 by water from Shanghai. From the river little can be seen of it except the long line of lofty grey brick walls which encircle it. The walls have an
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