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SHANGHAI-SOOCHOW
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ZI-KA-WEI PRESS-Teleph. 70301
Rev. H. Allain, S.J., director
X. Coupe, S.J.. (printing office)
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ZIMMERMAN Co., W.-I., General Merchants and Manufacturers' Representatives --53,
Szechuen Road; Teleph. 13233; Cable Ad: Zimmerman
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ZOONG SING COTTON MILLS, LTD. -8,
Rue du Consulat; Teleph. 27526
ZUNG LEE Co., General Importers 130, Kiangse Road; Teleph. 17057; Cable Ad: Zunli
Agents: ..biju 200
Polak and Schwarz Essenfabrieken
ZUNG LEE & Co., Wholesale and Re-
tail Wine and Spirit Importers- 261, Kiangse Road; Teleph. 13694
ZUNG SING & Co., Ship Chandlers, etc. 29-30, Kung Woo Li, Seward Road; Teleph. 43416
Z. Golden, manager
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ZUNG, Z. D., Textile Representative-
24, The Bund; (Room 22); Teleph. 14830; P.O. Box 1211; Cable Ad: Trustfully
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SOOCHOW
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Soochow, until 1912 the capital of the province of Kiangsu, lies about 80 miles west by water and 54 by rail and a little north of Shanghai, with which it is connected by excellent inland water-ways. The Shanghai-Nanking Railway supplies still better connection. The city is a rectangle, its length from north to south being three and a half miles and its width from east to west two and a half, the total circumference being about 10 miles. It lies not far from the eastern shore of the great Taihu lake. Past its walls runs the southern section of the Grand Canal, which joins Hangchow to Chinkiang; and in every direction spread creeks or canals, affording easy communica- tion with the numerous towns in the surrounding country. It is an important manu- facturing centre, with a population of nearly 200,000 (according to census taken in 1929). Its two chief manufactures are satins and silk embroideries of various kinds. In addi- tion, it sends out silk goods, yarn, matches, scented tea, and articles in iron, ivory, wood, horn, and glass, and rape seed.
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Before the Taiping rebellion Soochow shared with Hangchow the reputation of being the finest, city in China, but it was almost entirely destroyed by the rebels, who captured it on 25th May, 1860. Its recovery by Major (afterwards General) Gordon on 27th Nov., 1863, was the first effective blow to the rebellion. Since that disastrous period it has recovered itself greatly and is once more populous and flourishing, though it has not yet attained to, its former pitch of prosperity. It was declared open to foreign trade on September 26, 1896, under the provisions the Japanese Treaty. The Foreign Settlement is under the southern wall of the city, just across the Canal, and is a strip of land about 1 mile long and a quarter of a mile broad. The Government has made a good carriage road along the Canal bank extending the whole length of the settlement and as far as the railway station, a distance of five and a half miles. The care of roads has been entrusted to the Soo- chow Construction Bureau, which, during 1931, continued to make a radical improve- ment in construction and widening of roads especially inside the city. The two wooden bridges, namely, the Gordon Bridge(), and the Chu Kung Bridge (44), on the road leading from the Custom House at the outside south-east corner of the city to the railway station were reconstructed with re-inforced concrete and opened to traffic in November and December 1931 respectively, thus leaving only one wooden bridge, viz. Pan Tang Bridge (4) on the road which cannot take motor cars or trucks. The widening of streets inside the city has made much headway. The work on the widening of the Park Road (4) commenced in September 1931 was
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