CHUNGKING-HANGCHOW
PHILIPPIDIS, C. M., Import-Export-Tel.
Ad: Philippidis; Code: A.B.C. 5th edn.
C. M. Philippidis, manager
Ph. M. Philippidis
A. Papadakis
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 Lungmenhao. Subordinate Offices: 75; Agencies: 336; Rural Box-Offices: 117
Commissioner-E. F. S. Newman Acting Deputy Commr.-E. Rose District Accountant-F. Fukuya
Postmaster (Wanhsien)-V. D. Alton
District Staff-40 Clerks and 1,346
subordinate employés
司公限有德蜀
SZECHWAN HANDELS-GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.
-Tel. Ad: Handgesell; Code: A.B.C. 5th Ausg
P. R. Schuchardt
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
E. R. Hykes, manager
H. C. Reed
W. C. Harrison
R. G. Doolan E. B. Jones
R. E. Laker, installation supt.
833.
A. L. Lornsten, inst. supt. (Wanhsien)
福聚
UNION FRANCO-CHINOISE DE NAVIGATION
C. C. Chiris, general manager
E. Charrier & A. Lordeveau, directors
C. T. Huang, Chinese manager
T. F. Li, assist. do.
H. C. Teng, chief clerk
部易貿國外誠興聚
Chu-hsin-cheng-wei-kwo-mou-e-po
YOUNG BROTHERS TRADING Co. (Foreign Department), Exporters of Szechuen
Woodoil, Bristles, Goatskins, Feathers,
etc., and Commission Agents-Tel. Ad: Yangbrosco
C. C. Ran, manager
K. F. Fuh, accountant
HANGCHOW
A fr Háng-chau
州杭
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 shaped 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 speed with the immense pressure of the ocean behind it, thus forcing its volume into the ever-narrowing waterway, the bore occasionally attains, at a favourable spring- tide, a height of as much as 15 feet as it rushes, with a roar like thunder, along the 'sea-wall on the northern shore of the Bay, at a rate sometimes reaching 12 miles an
hour.
Before the Taiping rebellion Hangchow shared with Soochow the reputation of being one of the finest cities in the Empire on account of its wealth and splendour,. d but it was almost destroyed by the rebels. Since then it has recovered to a considerable degree, and is once more populous and flourishing, though it has not yet regained its former pitch of prosperity. Historically, Hangchow is perhaps the most interesting city in the Republic. The earliest reference to it in the annals dates back to B.C. 2198, The great Shih huang-ti visited the place in B.C. 210, and the kings of