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particularly in Manchurian beans, a number of influential business houses, Japanese, Chinese and foreign, have established themselves at the port. The foreign and Japanese communities in April, 1909, organized and opened the Dairen Club. A Gun Club, Golf Club, and Marine Association are among the other institutions of the port. Of places for public amusement, the so-called Electric Park, designed on an up-to-date plan and con- taining all devices for recreation, forms the chief attraction.
The Chinese quarter, situated on the western fringe of the city, has also grown considerably. There is a Railway Hospital affording accommodation for 200 patients. The Railway Co. have a new five-storeyed reinforced concrete, fire-proof hospital, equipped with every modern appliance. Another hospital has recently been constructed on a large scale, accommodating over 500 patients, and is one of the finest and most up-to-date hospitals in the Far East.
A direct steamship service is maintained twice a week by the South Manchuria Railway Company between Dairen and Shanghai, one outward bound steamer and one homeward bound steamer calling at Tsingtao each week, by which means communication is obtained between Shanghai and the trans-Siberian route to Europe. Regular and "half-regular" steamship services are maintained to and from all the important ports of Japan, U.S.A., China and Chosen (Korea). Shanghai can be reached in 42 hours, Chemulpo in 24 hours, and Moji and Nagasaki in about 50 hours.
In 1925 the net value of the trade of Dairen was Hk. Tls. 273,709,962, as compared with Hk. Tls. 240,672,562 in 1924, Hk. Tls. 230,549,253 in 1923, Hk. Tls. 220,010,135 in 1922, and Hk. Tls. 210,431,265 in 1921. According to the latest returns (1924), the Japanese population of the town and suburbs was 63,988 persons and the Korean 578 persons. Chinese numbered 179,867 and other nationals totalled 415.
DIRECTORY
ANGLO-CHINESE EASTERN TRADING Co.,
LTD., Exporters of Grains, Seeds, Oils and Beancakes-Terauchi-dori; Teleph.
4404; Codes: A.B.C.
6th
edn. and
Bentley's. Head Office: London
M. Oseroff, manager
司公船輪督提
De-tuh-lung-shien-kung-sze
ADMIRAL ORIENTAL LINE, THE
Thompson, Hannam & Co., agents
AQUARIUS Co. OF SHANGHAI, Manufac-
turers of Table Waters
Cornabé, Eckford & Winning, agents
BANK OF CHOSEN-Telephs. 8101, 8100,
8108 and 8109; Tel. Ad: Chosenbank
Yuen-lai
Bardens, F. J., General Import Mer- chant, Commission and Forwarding Agent, Correspondent of the Board of Underwriters of New York-109, Yama- gata-dori, and at Tokyo; Teleph. 352; P.O. Box A. 15; Codes: A.B. C. 5th edn., Western Union 5-letter, and Bentley's. Branches: Harbin
F. J. Bardens
S. J. Bardens F. Nagashima
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P. T. Chang K. F. Cheng
Agencies
Eagle, Star & Brit. Dominions Ins. Co. Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ld. New Zealand Insurance Co., Ld. Queensland State Government Insce. Robert Dollar S.S. Co.
Standard Ins. Co. of New Zealand, Ld. Lloyd Siciliano
DA** Ying-mei-yen-kung-sze BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA), LTD.-Teleph. 5819; Tel. Ad: Powhattan Cornabe, Eckford & Winning, agents
BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Chairman-W. H. Winning
Hon. Secy. and Treas.-T. W. Riddell
司公限有碱洋門內卜商英 Ying-shang-po-na-men-yang-kien-yu-hsien kung-sz
Brunner, Mond & Co. (China), Ltd., Alkali Manufacturers, Importers of Alkalies and Commercial and Industrial Chemicals-69, Yamagata-dori; P.O. Box 56; Tel. Ad: Aĺkali
O. S. Little, divisional manager
G. E. Matthews
(For Agencies, see Shanghai section)