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HANGCHOW-NINGPO

INDEPENDANT BAPTIST MISSION-

MAISON ST. VINCENT (Orphan Asylum)--- Sisters of Charity-Sisters Blanchin (superior), Jeceder and seven native

sisters

Hospital du Sacré-Coeur (Sacred- Heart Hospital)- Tao-maohiang No. 222; Teleph. 2041

Sisters Dorothy Bowlby (superior), Chauvet, Jaeger, McHugh and nine native sisters

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Chin Nyien Wei

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-

Cable Ad: Flamingo

D. K. Tong, general secretary

A. L. Dien and E. A. Turner, David

associate general secretaries

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Chi tu chao nu ch'ing nien wei

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCN

27, Kai Yuen Lu

Miss Katherine Lucchini

NATIONAL GENERAL INSURANCE OFFICE-

28, Yang Par Dur

局理管政郵江浙

Che kiang yu cheng kuan li chu

POST OFFICE-Cable Ad; Postos

Director V. W. Stapleton-Cotton

Chief of Transport Department-

Yen Noh An

Chief of Inland Business Department-

-Hoo Yiu Tsun

Chief of General Affairs Department

-Dong Shu

Chief of Accounts & Checking De

partment Tsong Sing Seng Postmaster, Ninghsien (Ningpo)

First Class Office Kong Chia Zau Postmaster, Shaohing

First Class Office-Feng Te-kuei

SALT REVENUE DEPT.- Teleph. 3550;

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District Inspector-T. H. Chow

路鐵甬杭滬

SHANGHAI-HANGCHOW-NINGPO RAILWAY

Huang Pe-tsiau, managing director.

(N.S.L. and S.H.N.L.)

H. Moh, chief of General Dept.

I. Tuxford, engineer-in-chief

H. P. Cheng, dist. engr. (Hangchow)

do. (Ningpo)

K. C. Liu,

Mei Fu

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Paxon Zhee, manager

司公限有份股草烟和泰永

WING TAI VO TOBACCO CORP., Tobacco Merchants and Cigarette Manufacturers'

Selling Agents-Cable Ad: Wingtaivo

NINGPO

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Ning-po

The

Ningpo, one of the five ports originally thrown open to foreign commerce by the British Treaty of Nanking in 1842, is situated in lat. 29° 55′ 12′′ N. and long. 121° 22 E. at the confluence of Rivers Yung, Fenghua and Yuyao in the province of Chekiang, of which it is the Yung which runs into the sea at Chinhai some 13 miles away. foundation of Ningpo as a departmental city dates from the 10th century, but the principal interest attaching to its early records arises from the fact that the first development on a large scale of European intercourse with China took place at this point. The place was "discovered" in A.D. 1517 by the embassy to Canton under the Portuguese Fernão Peres d'Andrade, and the first notice of Portuguese trade at Ningpo occurs about A.D. 1522, or a few years after the expulsion of the Portuguese from Kwangtung. The settlement was at Chinhai, and by 1542 there were a senate house, two churches, two hospitals and hundreds of well-built private residences, the com- munity then consisting of 3,000 adults, besides women and children, of whom 1,200 were Portuguese. Their lawless acts in plundering the surrounding villages, however, led to reprisals being instituted in this year by the Governor of Chekia g, and in five hours the settlement was utterly demolished, 800 of the Portuguese being massacred, 25 of their vessels, and 42 junks being destroyed by a Chinese force consisting of

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