KIRIN
林吉 Chi-lin
(Kirin is the Manchu name of the city.)
Kirin, the capital of the province of the same name on the Sungari river, is 80 miles from Changchun, with which it is connected by railway. It is one of the most prosperous towns in Manchuria, and, having been rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1911, possesses many fine buildings. It is the distributing centre for the inexhaustible supplies of timber from the neighbouring regions.
BANK OF CHOSEN
BRITISH CONSULATE
Consul-General
DIRECTORY
F. E. Wilkinson,
C.M.G. (residing at Mukden)
CHINESE POST OFFICE (First Class Office)
IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
Rev. and Mrs. J. McWhirter
Miss E. C. McMordie
Dr. Emma M. Crooks
Miss M. Hilton
Dr. Dorothy Sinton
Rev. & Mrs. H. K. Johnston Miss Dodds (nurse)
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
S. G. Mgr. Gaspais, Evêque titulaire
de Canope
R. P. Cubizolles, pro-vicaire Lacquois, directeur du grand séminaire Y. Rouger, directeur du petit séminaire L. Gibert A. Sagard
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
R. L. Moeller and wife
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK
LUNGCHINGTSUN
村井龍 Lung chingtsun
Lungchingtsun (Dragon Well Village), situated lat. 42 deg. 46 min. N. and long. 129 deg. 25 min. E., is one of the trade marts opened on 1st January, 1910, under the Chientao Agreement of 4th September, 1909. The mart has a population of about 15,000 inhabitants, composed of about 11,000 Koreans, 3,000 Chinese, and 1,000 Japanese. Situated in a fertile plain, its main exports are: beans, millet and timber. There are promising mining possibilities (coal, copper, silver, and gold) waiting development. The trade-by light railway to Kainei-is with Korea and Japan. The principal imports are cotton piece goods, sugar, Japanese sundries, paper, kerosene oil, metals, fishery products. The value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Customs in 1925 was Hk. Tls. 3,933,790, as compared with Hk. Tls. 4,647,450 in 1924, Hk. Tls. 5,025,060 in 1923, Hk. Tls. 3,359,493 in 1922, and Hk. Tls. 3,056,037 in 1921. Telephone and telegraph lines, in addition to the Chinese telegraph and telephone lines, connect Lungchingtsun with the neighbouring marts of Yenki, Towtaokow and Hunchun. A handsome new building for the Bank of Chosen was completed in 1923, and a particularly fine new Japanese Consulate-General in 1925.