A388
CHINKIANG
DIRECTORY
亞細亞 Asia
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.-Cable Ad: Doric
F. J. E. Willis, manager
古 太
Tai koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ltd.), Merchants-Cable Ad: Swire
S. P. Chow
關江 江鎭 Chin kiang kwan
MISSION
會老長南國美
Mei kwok nan chang lao wei
PRESBYTERIAN
AMERICAN
SOUTH
S. C. Farrior and wife
Dr. J. B. Woods, jr., M.D.
Miss Charlotte Dunlap, R.N.
Rev. C. H. Smith and wife
MISSION,
Rev. J. R. Graham, jr. and wife
POST OFFICE
Deputy Postal Commissioner ᏞᎥ
Chin-lu
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
和怡 E wo
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., Merchants
and Steamship Agents
Agencies
Indo-China Steam Navigation Co.,
Ld.-Cable Ad: Inchcoy
Canton Insurance Office, Ld. Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.
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Mei foo
SOCONY-VACUUM CORPORATION- Telephs.
135 (Office) and 116 (Installation); Cable Ad: Socony
TEXAS Co., THE, Petroleum Products-
Cable Ad: Texaco
C. S. C. Nieh, inspector
NANKING
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Kiáng-ning
The city owes its present name, "Southern capital," to having been many times the capital of the Empire, the last occasion before the removal there of the Seat of Government in 1927, being in the Ming dynasty at the commencement of the 15th century. Nanking is also known as Kiang Ning Fu, being the chief city of the prefecture of Kiang Ning, and the seat of government for the provinces grouped under the designation of Kiang Nan. Besides Kiang Ning Fu, an elegant Chinese name commonly used is Kin Ling or "golden mound." From the 5th or 6th century B.C. to the present there has been a walled city at this place. Nanking was specified in the French Treaty of 1858 as one of the Yangtze ports to be opened to trade, but it was not formally opened until May, 1899. In July, 1915, Pukow, the southern terminus of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway (lying across the river from Nanking), was opened to foreign trade as a branch office of the Nanking Customs.
Nanking is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze, 45 miles beyond Chinkiang and 193 by rail or 215 by water from Shanghai. From the river little can be seen of it except the long line of lofty grey brick walls which encircles it. The walls have an elevation varying from 40 to 90 feet, are from 20 to 40 feet in thickness, and 22 miles in circumference. They enclose a vast area, a large part of which still remains undeve- loped and includes some pretty hilly country. The busiest portion lies towards the south and west, and is several miles from the banks of the river. Whatever of architectural beauty or importance belonged to Nanking perished or was reduced