WENCHOW-SANTUAO
堂主天水麗江浙
PERFECTURE APOSTOLIC OF LISHUI
Lishui, Chekiang (Canadian Mission,
Scarboro Bluffs, Ontario, Canada)
Rev. H. Steele
Rev. A. McIntosh
Rev. C. Murphy Rev. E. Moriarty
Rev. G. McKernan
Rev. D. McNeil
Rev. H. Murphy
會區南浙會日息安臨復督基
SOUTH CHEKIANG MISSION
OF
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS-Cable
Ad: Adventists
A. Fossey and Family
R. H. Dinsbier and Family
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院醫望若董州温
SOEURS DE LA CHARITÉ ST. VINCENT DE
PAUL-Hopital Jean Gabriel
局郵等 州温
POST OFFICE --
Postmaster-Hsiang Ting
WEN - CH'U
CHIEF SALT REVENUE
COLLECTORATE-
Chief Collector-Yang Chi-pu.
司公限有份股草煙和泰永
WING TAI Vo TOBACCO CORPORATION-
Cable Ad: Wingtaivo
D. P. Bow, manager
C. Y. Shiao, asst. manager.
SANTUAO
澳都三 San-tuao
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Santuao was voluntarily opened to foreign trade by the Chinese Government on the 8th May, 1899. The port includes the whole of the magnificent Santu Inlet, which is situated some 70 miles north of Foochow. The island of Santuao in the centre of the inlet. The harbour is certainly one of the finest on the China coast the approaches to it are well-defined, and vessels of the largest size may enter at any time, regardless of the state of tide. H.M.S. Waterwitch surveyed the whole of the inlet in 1899, and an Admiralty chart has been published. A telegraph cable was successfully laid from the mainland to the island July, 1905, and communication established with all China ports. A new cable connecting the telegraph office at Santuao with the mainland was laid in May, 1921, and the inconvenience caused by receiving and dispatching all messages from the other side of the harbour, which had been experienced for four years previously, was thus removed. A long distance telephone system was installed in 1936 connecting Foochow as well as the principal towns bordering the Santu Inlet.
This port has been more effectively blockaded by the Japanese Navy from the latter part of June 1940. Since then no steamer has come to Santuao and trade is at a standstill. Five Japanese gunboats and as many airplanes shelled and bombed the place on the 21st July 1940. Two or three hundred Japanese marines and ronins landed the same day, looted and set fire to all the buildings along the streets. The Custom House was partly demolished by shells and bombs, the total loss to the town amounting to no less than several millions of dollars. Gallant resistance had been made by the local Peace Preservation Corps, who were greatly out-numbered by the invaders. Casualties were fortunately few, but it will take quite a long time before the place will be able to restore to its former rosperity.
TRADE IN 1939
The blockading of the port of Foochow at the end of June 1939 increased the importance of Santuao as entrepôt for the trade of Foochow and the hinterland, and although the port of Santuao was itself blockaded in July and the blockade strengthened in October, it was able to maintain its status as a centre of tranship- ment for Foochow and the interior. Although subjected also at times to air-raids, little damage was done to property and casualties were few.