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堂主天
ICHANG-CHUNGKING
Tien choo tang
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rt. Rev. T. Jans, bishop of Rhosia
apost. vicar
Rev. Fr. A. Timmers
SWEDISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY
Miss I. Nordkvist
Rev. F. A. Wennborg
NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA-Cable Ad: Nissi-
kisen
T. Yamada
局郵等
昌宜
I chang í teng yu chu
POST OFFICE-Cable Ad: Postmaster
Deputy Postal Commissioner - in -
charge-Tsang Yuk Chee
SOCIETE FRANCAISE DU HAUT YANG TSE-
Cable Ad: Chiris
J. Dagorne, manager
美
Mei foo
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
J. L. Poole
UNION FRANCO-CHINOISE DE NAVIGATION.
C. C. Chiris, general manager
J. Dagorne, agent
YANGTSZE RAPID STEAMSHIP Co. (Fed. Inc. U.S.A.)—12, The Bund, Rm. 323; Cable Ad: Rapidco
Lansing Hoyt, president and general
manager (Shanghai)
H. E. Case, assist. genl. mgr. (Ichang)
R. Brown chief accountant (Shanghai)
Capt. J. Rosenberg, marine supt. do. R. Reed, assist. accountant (Ichang) J. H. Schwer (Chungking office)
Capts.-J. Miclo, H. Pallasen, H. W. Taylor, C. D. Smith, R. Baker, J. Anderson, C. Opperman, E. Anderson, E. Smith Mate-W. Heikel
Supt. Engineer-W. Uselin
CHUNGKING
慶重
Chung-king
The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec. N., long. 106 deg. 30 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province.
The
The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtsze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side of the Yangtsze, while a new malu outside the Tung Yuan city gate was com- pleted for a length of a little over two miles and opened to traffic in July 1929. The city is surrounded by a crenelated stone wall in good repair, which is some five miles in circumference, pierced with nine gates. This wall was built in 1761, replacing an older one. Chungking is now electrically lighted, a native company with an authorised capital of $300,000 having been formed for that purpose. climate of Chungking is depressing, the summer being hot and damp, the winters raw and chilly, with thick fogs from November to March. The ordinary rise of the river is about 75 feet; on 6th August, 1898, it rose to 101 ft., on 11th August, 1905, to 108 ft., on 22nd July, 1920, to 95 ft. 2 in., and on 14th July, 1921, to 100 ft. In 1908 it only attained a height of 52 feet 4 inches. According to a Chinese report, the river rose 120 feet in 1878. On the left bank of the Kialing and facing Chungking, ex- tending below the junction of the two rivers, is the walled city formerly styled Kiangpei Ting and now known as Kiangpei Hsien. It is proposed to connect the two towns by a steel bridge. These two cities and the large villages in their immediate neighbourhood are estimated to contain a population of about 700,000.
TRADE IN 1930.
The port was declared open to foreign trade in 1891, since which date a large trade has been done both in imports and exports, carried in foreign chartered junks.