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CHINKIANG-NANKING
DIRECTORY
會老長南國美
Mei kwok nan chang lao wei
AMERICAN
PRESBYTERIAN
MISSION,
SOUTH
S. C. Farrior and wife
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
Boat Officers-N. A. Goudasheff &
Sung Wan-ying (at Kiangyin)
Examiners-Au Siu Tuen & Kuan
Ching Chih
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, Ltd.
Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ltd.
POST OFFICE ·
Deputy Postal Commissioner
隔江鎮
Chin kiang kwan
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner--Chang Pai Leh
Assistants-Ong Yah Foo & Chu
Wen-tsao (at Kiangyin)
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Mas-
ter-R. C. Starling
Har Shih-King
李美
Mei foo
STANDARD VACUUM OIL Co.- Telephs
135 (Office) and 116 (Installation); Cable- Ad: Standvac
TEXAS CO., THE, Petroleum Products-
Cable Ad: Texaco
C. S. C. Nieh, inspector
NANKING
響
蜜江
Kiáng-ning
The city owes its present name, "Southern capital," to having been many time the capital of the Empire, the last occasion before the removal there of the Sea 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 d the prefecture of Kiang Ning, and the seat of government for the provinces groupe under the designation of Kiang Nan. Besides Kiang Ning Fu, an elegant Chines name commonly used is Kin Ling or "golden mound." From the 5th or 6th centur B.C. to the present there has been a walled city at this place. Nanking
Nanking was specified in the French Treaty of 1858 as one of the Yangtze ports to be opened to trade, bu it was not formally opened until May, 1899. In July, 1915, Pukow, the souther terminus of the Tientsin-Pukow Railway (lying across the river from Nanking), wa opened to foreign trade as a branch office of the Nanking Customs.
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Nanking is situated on the south bank of the Yangtsze, 45 miles beyond Chinkia and 193 by rail or 215 by water from Shanghai. From the river little can be seen it except the long line of lofty grey brick walls which encircles it. The walls have a