A370
Mrs. Mary B. Rogers Robert J. Clarke
Donald McCabe
CHANGSHA-ICHANG
National Hsiang Ya Medical College,
Kweiyang, Kweichow
Director H. C. Chang, M.D,
Isiang Ya Hospital, Changsha, Hunan Supt.-Dr. P. F. Greene, M.D., F.A.C.S.
Supt. of Nurses-Miss Marjorie K.
Tooker
Assistant in Surgery--Dr. W. W.
Pettus.
In Charge of Operation Room-Mrs.
Maud Miller Pettus, R.N.
Hsiang Ya School of Nursing, Yuanling,
Hunan
Supt.-Wang Tai Jen, R.N.
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YEE TSOONG TOBACCO DISTRIBUTORS, LTD.
Teleph. 277; Cable Ad: Powhattan
R. P. Dobson, divisional manager
Yee Kee & Co., distributors
ICHANG
昌宜 I-chang
Ichang is one of the four ports opened to foreign trade on the 1st April, 1877, in accordance with Clause 1, Section 3, of the Chefoo Convention. It is situated in lat. 30° 43.4′ N., long. 111° 12.8′ E., on the north bank of the river Yangtze, about 363 miles above Hankow, and some five miles below the entrance to the great Ichang Gorge, or just about 1,000 miles from the coast. The navigation of the river to this port is comparatively easy for vessels of light draught and has in recent years been rendered easier by the labours of the Customs River Department, which has marked every crossing and established numerous aids to navigation. The anchorage is off the left bank, and is good, except in freshets, when the anchors should be sighted every two or three days. The port is the centre of a hilly country, the productions of which are rice in the valleys, cotton on the higher grounds, winter wheat, barley, and also the tungtzu trees, from which the ordinary wood oil is obtained by pressing the nuts gathered from the trees. In the sheltered valleys, amongst the mountain ranges west of the city, oranges, lemons, pomeloes, pears, plums, and a very superior quality of persimmons are grown, and find a ready market in the city and at Shasi. The importance of Ichang is chiefly that of an emporium for goods in transit to and from Chungking. Most of the cargo for the latter port is landed here and transferred to steamers. Steam navigation is practicable for the larger vessels from the middle of April to the end of November and for the smaller vessels throughout the year. The rates for foreign passengers are inuch higher than on the lower Yangtsze. Aids, to navigation and rules of the road through the gorges are efficiently maintained by the Government, with three River Inspectors functioning between Chung- king and Ichang, night navigation having been introduced in 1936. The upward voyage to Chungking now takes between three and four days, and the return trip just under two days. The port is now connected by motor highway with Hankow and is an important station on the Hankow-Chungking and Shanghai-Chengtu air service lines. The Hupeh-Szechuan motor highway, which will pass Ichang, is under survey. The estimated Chinese population of Ichang is 110,000.
TRADE IN 1939
Some improvement in the trade conditions at Ichang is revealed from the follow- ing value statistics: direct foreign imports, $12,000 as compared with $15,000 in 1938; coastwise importations of native goods, $10.8 million as against $9.9 million; and coastwise exportations of Chinese produce, $10.8 million as against $6.8 million. While such staple foreign imports as sugar, kerosene oil, and gasolene completely disappeared from the records of this port, coastwise imports of raw cotton increased more than twentyfold in quantity (from 2,304 to 47,737 quintals). Salt increased to 363,779 quintals from 257,343 quintals in 1938. Medicinal substances, not otherwise