HANKOW--YOCHOW
A364
司公草煙鎮運中頤
Yee-tsoony-yun-shao-yen-chao-koo-fun yu-hsien king-sze
Yee Tsoong Tobacco Distributors, Ltd. Poyang Road, S.A.D. No. 3:
Telephs. 22803, 24051, 23915 and 23117; Cable Ad: Powhattan
J. W. Parsons, deptl. manager Accounting Departinent:
W. S. E. James K. M. Campbell D. M. Munro
Traffic Department:
C. T. Biggin
G. S. Pratt
Order Department:
G. E. Avasia
F. Roscoe
L. M. de Luz
Advertising Department:
L. Loh
Caretaker's Department:
L. J. Rodrigues
Stenographic Department: Miss T. H. O'Driscoll Miss D. Drake
Miss M. MacKenzie
Miss M. de Fryde (Mailing)
Hupeh Division:
L. E. Tipton Honan Division:
D. Brinsden Hunan Division:
M. E. Hewlett (Changsha) Szechuen Division:
M. S. Hodjash (Chungking) D. R, Ding (Chungking)
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK See Banks)
YOUNG
BROTHERS TRADING Co., Ex- porters of Hankow China Wood Oil and Other Szechuen Products, Importers and Commission Agents-Young Bros. Banking Corporation Building. Kiang- han Road (1st Floor), S.A.D. 3; Telephs. 22421 (General), 22424 (Manager), 22425 (Installation); Cable Ad: Yangbrosco; Codes: Acme, Bentley's and Private. Branches at Wanhsien, Chungking, Changteh, Ichang, Tsingshih` and throughout Szechuen Province
T. S. Yang, managing director C. C. Yang, manager
YUNG TAI & Co., General Drapers
Gentlemen's Outfitters and Milliners-
57, Sankiao St., S.A.D. 2
Ꭲ . P. Yang, manager
會年青敎督基口濮
Hankow Chitu chiao Ch'ing nien hur
YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF
HANKOW-Cable Ad: Flamingo; Codes: Missions and C.I.M.
ZENITH STUDIO, Portraiture, Enlarg-
ing, Developing and Printing-217, Kiang Han Road, S.A.D. 3, Branch Office: Kuling Street, Kuling, Kiangsi
YOCHOW
Yochow, with a population of some 500,000 is situated in latitude 29° 26′ 29′′ N. and longitude 113° 11′ 6′′ E. at the outlet of the Tungting Lake. Past it ebbs and flows practically the whole of the trade of Hunan, which, however, adds little to the pros- perity of the place, as it simply passes by after having paid its dues and duties. The city being the gateway of the province holds a very strategic position from a military point of view and consequently has always been a bone of contention among the warring factions, whenever there is internicine strife in this centre. The opening of Changsha in July, 1904, took away much of Yochow's transit trade. The recently- completed Canton-Hankow Railway passes through Yochow.
The province of Hunan used to be to foreign commerce what Tibet has been to the explorer-a Forbidden Land-and it is only two decades ago that foreigners were stoned out of Yochow. In 1904, the people were described as showing a "friendly attitude" to all foreigners, which attitude is now well maintained in spite of the recent activities of the extremists in this province.
The province is rich in many forms of wealth, though the inhabitants say it consists of "three parts mountain, six water, and one arable soil." The staple exports are rice, raw cotton, ramie, lotus nuts, vegetable tallow and wood oil.
In past years much rice was allowed to leave the province, with the result that the Hunan people themselves have at times suffered acutely from rice famine.