CHEFOO-LUNGKOW
WESTERN Co., THE, Exporters of Hai-
nets, etc.-Beach Road; Cable Ad: Westernco
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YANNOULATOS BROTHERS (CHINA), General Exporters, Shipping Agents and Brokers-Red Cross Street; Cable Ad: Onneybros. Branches: Chefoo.
Dairen, Kobe and Athens (Greece)
E. P. Yannoulatos, director
N. P. Yannoulatos, director (Athens)
E. V. Bono, signs per pro.
P. Huitong, Chinese manager S. K. Yon, secretary
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YIH WEN COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, THE
Temple Hill
Victor Wong, president
YORKSHIRE INSURANCE CO., LTD.-Cable
Ad McMullan
James McMullan & Co., Ltd., repre-
sentatives
YU TAI TUNG & Co., Navy Contractors and General Merchants-29, Gipperich
Street; Cable Ad: Yutaitung
LUNGKOW
口龍
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Lway-Premar
Chefoo
Customs
Was
Lungkow, a sub-office under the
Commissioner, declared a trading port in November, 1913, but was not formally opened until 1st, November, 1915. It is about 80 nautical miles by sea and 87 statute miles by highway due west of Chefoo, on the west coast of the Shantung promontory. It lies about 100 miles south-west of the Japanese port, Dairen, and is the nearest port to the rich Manchurian provinces. Newchwang and Tientsin are each about 200 miles distant from Lungkow.
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The port is well sheltered on the north by the Chimatao Peninsula, and is the most northern one in China proper open to the sea throughout the year, though the harbour is sometines partly frozen over, greatly handicapping the move- ments of the clumsy cargo boats. This generally happens in January. The harbour of Lungkow (Dragon's Mouth) is seven miles wide at the entrance, and has a sand bar which forms a breakwater for five miles across the open- ing. The inner harbour has a low-water mark of from 11 to 14 feet and storms seldom disturb the shipping inside. It is not to be expected that the Chinese Government will, for many years at least, undertake extensive harbour im- provements at Lungkow; but, as it is, the inner harbour has accommodation for a great deal of shipping and, as its bottom is of clay, not sand, a con siderable increase in the depth of water available could probably be brought about by dredging operations. Until such time as recognition of its favourable geographical situation forces the bestowal of increased communications, to- gether with harbour improvement similar to those at Chefoo, any increase of trade will be slow and must come from an increase in exports and a gradual elevation of the scale of living with an attendant increase in imports. A handsome new reinforced concrete pier at the New Settlement has been com- pleted, but has never been used and is slowly falling into decay, while the roads leading to it have been allowed to deteriorate During 1924 develop- ment of the town northwards was planned with some success, but it has since been abandoned. An electric light works, long anticipated, is now an accomplished fact.
A level stretch of country behind Lungkow, thickly populated and very fertile, gives promise of the port some day assuming considerable importance, The proposed Chefoo-Weihsien Railway would connect Lungkow with both Chefoo and Weihsien, thus with north and central Shantung. The Weihsien- Lungkow-Chefoo motor highway could be easily converted into a railway. In