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CHINKIANG-NANKING
DIRECTORY
會老長南國美
Mei kwok nan chang lao wei
AMERICAN
PRESBYTERIAN
SOUTH
S. C. Farrior and wife
C. H. Smith and wife
MISSION,
J. B. Woods, Jr., M. D. and wife
Miss C. A. Dunlap, R. N.
Mrs. Una H. Paxton
J. R. Graham Jr. and wife
亞細亞
Asia
ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),
LTD.-Cable Ad: Doric
BANK OF CHINA-Cable Ad: 6892
BRITISH CONSULATE (Adininistered by
H.M. Consul in Nanking)
古
太 Tai koo
BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &
Sons, Ltd.), Merchants-Cable Ad: Swire
S. P. Chow
關江鎮 Chin kiang kwan.
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner-Chang Pai Leh
Assistant-Shih Ching
Tidesurveyor and Harbour Mas- ter (Acting, temporarily)-N. A. Goudasheff
Boat Officer-Sung Wan-ying
Examiners -Au Siu Tuen, Kuan
Ching Chih and Shen Yun Sun
和怡 E wo
JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD, Merchants
and Steamship Agents-Cable Ad: Inchoy
(For Agencies see Shanghai Section).
POST OFFICE
Acting Deputy Postal Commissioner
-Pao Yung
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Mei foo
STANDARD VACUUM OIL Co. - Telephs.
135 (Office) and 116 (Installation); Câble Ad: Standvac
TEXAS CO., THE, Petroleum Products-
Cable Ad: Texaco
Chen Moo Shin
NANKING
蜜江
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 mile in circumference. They enclose a vast area, a large part of which still remains undeve-