NOW IN PREPARATION.
THE DIRECTORY ́ ́AND CHRONICLE
1916.
FOR CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO CHINA, SIAM, STRAITS BETTLE- HENTS,
STATES,
NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP FINES, BORNEO, ETC.
MALAY
FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL ISSUE.
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The Directories and Descriptions até of :-
Poking. entain
CHINA.
Soochow Canton Chinking. Whampos, Peitalho. Nanking. Kowloon.
Chuwangtao. Wibu.
Taka.
A stung
Manchurian
Lappa
Kantiang.
Haukow
Yochow.
Samshul.
Kongmoon. Nanning.
Trada Ctros, Shanai.
Wuchoufa.
Newchwing Ichang Kwangchauwas
Dsires.
Chungking. Fakhoi.
Port Arthur. Hangchow. Hoihow.
Ningpo. Langehow.
Chiafon.
Weibaiwel,
Winchow.
Mingtee.
Meinaafu.
Santu.
Hokow
Mundon,
Foodbow.
Srembo.
Shanghai.
Amoy.
Tengyuch.
@watow.
Tokyo.
Yokohama.
Hyogo.
Kobe.
JAPAN AND FORMOSA.
Keelung.
Osta. Moji.
Tainanfu. Nagasaki. Takow. Hakodate Anping. Shimonoseki, Tami..
EASTERN SIBERIA,.
Vladivostock.
Nloolojevsk
Seoul.
Obemulpo.
CHOIN.
Woznan. Mokpo.
Chiunampo.. Fussu. Kuasan. Pingyng Bongchin,
Bongrong and 121 Durandinotas, Madad
mepuutig.
ABDUM ANDHUBLAR.
Адра buc.
Tourene. Don kənin isociągo.
Manila,
PHILIPPINES,
Iloilo.
Cebu.
Harawak. Bruns).
Perak.
BORNEO.
Labuan. British North Borneo
BANGKOK.
MALAY STATUE.
Selangor. Pahang.
Kedah. Trongganu. Perlis._________ Singapore, Penang, Malacca, Prov. Wolleslay.
Nogri Sembilan. Jobore..
teista.
Batavia, Buitenzorg
British French,
BTRAITH SETTLEMESTO, NETHERLANDS INDIA.
Samarang Padang.* Bourebaya. Mneassar. East Coast of Sumaira:
Naval SquadróNS.
Japane9o. Siamese.
United Stabas Italian.
·Officers of Coast and RITKE ŠTIAMERA,
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Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Firma the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS as the larger Commercial Centres.
The
ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS of the last half-century-in-the-Far Eas Montains the names of over.
40,000 FOREIGNERS, arranged, with the Initials as well as the Surnames, in strictly alphabetical Order.
so that any name can be found instantly.
THE MAPS AND PLANS
of the principal porta in the Far East have" beer Engraved by one of the most eminent Firms in Great Britain and are annually sorrected and brought up to date.
The CHRONICLE covers the notable events; together with the Texts of all the most Important. Treaties concl. Med withTM ***the countries of Eastern - Asis, the various Customs Tariffa, Trade Regulations, Ukam- bers of Commerce, Besles of Commissiona Consular and Court Fees, Hongkong Stomp Duties, Postal Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money, Weights and Hoasures and other Commercial Information.. The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, though condensed in every possible rannar. nontains every gear more pages.
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OUR ENGINEERING TRADE WITH CHINA.
AUSTRO-GERMAN FIGHTING
STRENGTH.
CRITICAL SHORTAGE.
APPROACHING.
BRITAIN'S ARISTOCRACY AND THE WAR.
Lord Congleton is succeeded by his brother, the Hon. John P. Parnell, a Lieutenant in the army, and the heir to the title is his brother William, who is
THE PATRIOTISM AND LOSSES OF 11 years of age.
NOBLE HOUSES.
Lord Kinnaird, who is well-known for his advocacy of temperance, has lost his eldest son, Captain Douglas Kinnaird,
The military export of the Bourse [SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE SUN." While another son is serving in the army.
Lord Balfour of Burleigh's eldest son, the Hon. Robert Bruce, the Master of Burleigh, was killed, and his brother is with the colours,
An enormous field will be open in China to British engineering trades after the war provided that the efforts put forth by. British firms receive adequate support at the hands of the Government and of Gozetta estimates the present total of the banks which conduct business with the enemy forces engaged on all frontiers at The old French adago mahlesse oblige Far East and whose principals are quite 160 to 170 divisions of Germans and has never been more true than now, as familiar with the customs and business! to 64 divisions of Austrians. This est has been clearly demonstrated by the part The death of Lord. Annesley resulted methods of the people. Indeed, the Euro. mate does not include cavalry, of which played by the aristocracy of Great Britain from his being shot through the head while making a brilliant geroplane attack pcan conflict is said to have shown even the enemy has 23 divisions on the Russian in the present war, No recruiting off-upon Ostend. to China her own particular weak spots front alone. These figures do not repre-cers, no bands or parades have been need. The death of Captain the Hon. R. and to have evoked the endeavour to become independent of other countries as sent the total available forces of Germany ed to bring the sons of the finest families Wyndham, heir presumptive of his bro far as possible by the more extended as there are gaps in the numbering of Britain to the colours. They havether, Lord Leconfeld, and nephew of working of her natural resources and of the divisions and previous experience rallied, fought and fallen in so great of the Wyndham family to fall in the Lord Rosebery, makes the third member their conversion into manufactures. In teaches that the lacking numbers on fight. this respect China will require the assisting fronts represent divisions formed and numbers that there is practically not a war. ance of other countries, and the three training in the interior of Germany bus noble house in all the United Kingdom of Weetman-Pearson, so prominent in the Lord Cowdray, bend of the famous firm which which are chiefly concerned as com- not yet efficient. Moreover, not all divi- ; petitors in the matter are Great Britain, sions actually employed at the front are to-day which is not in mourning,
oil-fields of Mexico, lost his third son, the Germany and the United States. Apart fully drilled mon,"
Sole heirs, eldest sons, youngest suus,Hon. Francis Pearson, who enlisted as & from: the action taken on behalf of its members by the British Engineers' Asso-
It is now customary to form corps out fathers and brothers of the greatest and private, was taken prisoner, and shot ciation, an ulheiat inquiry has been total number of German Army
of ineficient divisions, and therefore the most fammis English families wont to the While Tying to escapo, pleted over an extensive area by Mr. T. actually in the fighting front is not S3 to front at the very offset and are now in Robartes died of wounds. He was the son Only recently Captain the Hon. Agar M. Ainscough, special commissioner of 81, but something vess. the Board of Trade, who recently return Austrien corps are disposed six on the Dardanelles er on the high se9:3,
The remaining the trenches in France and at the ard heir of Viscount Clifden and repro- ad to this country after having devoted Italian front and one on the Serbian, and
Theresented a Cornish constituency in the House sixteen months to a tour of investigation the Germans have seven corps on the can be no doubt that the peer of England of Commons. He was a member of an in. which embraced seventeen out of the Serbian front. These last may be safely is paying toll not lees willingly but even Earl Rosebery's second son, and Jimmy separable trio consisting of Neil Prinicose, twenty-one provinces in China.
In the
corps
course of an interview, the Commisstimated at their full complement, so that far more than the men of the working Rothchild, Capt, Robartes was the Corin-
An illuminating illustration of this fact was given recently when the members of the much-abused House of Lords refus. ed to pass u motion authorizing the return from the front of those of its members who had gone to the firing-line,
thian of the House of Commons, and his sivolé in speaking was greatly enjoyed. He frequently broke the rigid etiquette of the House by attering such expressions as "I don't mind betting."
All American turfmon who came to Eng- Jand will recall with regret the death Many, other gallant young officers who of the Hon. Fransis Lambton, the young- led their men to glory on the westeru est brother of the Earl of Durham. Ho front at Mons, at the Marne or in Bel-was gium at Ypres, Neuve Chapelle and Locs, Guards, and before the war maintained
a Lieutenant in the Royal Horse. were the direct descendants of those who successfully a training stable at New- fought and fell at Waterloo, at Crecy and market for Sir Ernest Cassel. at Poitiers.
sioner is reported to have stated that the enemy without counting Bulgarin has although it may not be possible for the eight full army corps er over 300,000 men classes. moment thoroughly to take advantage of on the Serbian front. It is the German custom to deplete those corps which are the chances offered by the war for en acting on the defensive in order to fit solidating and extending their sphere of the complements of corps forming armies activity in China, British manufacturers which are attacking. Thus it is practi- and merchants should take steps to pre- cally-impossible to arrive at any trust pare for the opportunities which will be available on the conclusion of peace, and worthy estimate of the numbers of mon that those representatives who are to be actually engaged at any given time.
The Morning Post Petrograd corres sent out should be trained so as to acquire pondent says it is practically certain that an expert knowledge of the language, the Germans aro now not merely short of customs and business methods. The Com- missioner further remarked that engineer-men, but that the shortage is reaching a ing machinery and plant were in request degree which may mean imminent catae and would be in greater demand after trophe. Russia in closely concerted action the war, and that the engineering in-
with all the Allies is keeping the Germans at full stretch on all fronte. This means dustry should consider how it was pro-. posed to deal with i do order to meet that Germany and her allies are kept It is admitted strenuously at work over an extent of German organisation. that Teutonie competition in the past has front which now totals something well been serious, but the war has provented over two thousand miles, to say nothing German goods from reaching China, of the slow drainage of her vital strength except in the case of shipments forwarded by the unrelaxing measure of the sea power in the North Sea, the Baltic, the through metaal, countries.
The Germans take a rosier view of the Black Sea, the Aegean Sos and the Medi- position than, we believe, is justified. Aterranean and lakos Van and Urumia. report received from Shanghai by the The neutral waters of the navigable Commercial Treaties Association of Ber Danube should be added as not the least October 27thin the list of areas where sea power is and published on announced that the general situation of making itself increasingly felt against the
Germans,
ARISTOCRACY THINNING.:
The terrife blow dealt to the great fami- lies of Britain by the great war has caused many to express serious fear that the conflict which is now raging in Európe will completely extinguish the British aristocracy. In fact, it is being seriously proposed that where there are deaths of sole heirs by war special re mainders shall be instituted so that the titles shall descend to heirs female or heirs general, thereby preserving the peeraga.
The death of Capt Andrew do Ver Mac- lean leaves that romantic figure Knid Bir Harry Maclean, the real ruler of Morocco for so many years, childless...
DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY. Others who have fallen for their country aro: Capt. Lord Richard Wellesley, the second son of the Duke of Wellington; Major the Hon. William Cadogan, the third surviving son of the late Lord Cado gan; the Hon. Hugh Dawnay, the second Bon of Viscount Downe; Capt, the Hon. John Boyle, the third son of the Earl of In the usual patent of nobility the title Glasgow; Lord Charles Merces Nairne, sen only descends to heirs of the body male of the Marquis of Lansdowne, Unionist and special remainders are granted only leader of the House of Lords; Lieutenant in casce where some great national service the Hon. H. R. Hardinge, the heir of Vis has been rendered, as in the CASC of Lord
contributed themselves to this conflict may best be imagined when it is stated that. 213 peers and 424 scas of peers are already serving with the coloure.
BOYS NUCCEED TO TITLES.
Later he joined the independent- Labour party and was a sincero worker in the cause until a bitter attack on his family by socialistic paper caused him to resign from the Labour party and a eschew so- cinlism. At the outbreak of the war he was attached to the British Embassy at Constantinople.
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trade was unfavourable and that business activity, particularly in industrial branches, had been brought to stand- still, and that as a consequence it was facturers in Germany. As is known, the Roberts, whose peerage descends through Count Hardinge and nephew of the Vice almost impossible for the commercial: Teutons hope to depend to some extent, his daughter, and Lord Kitchener whose roy of India, whose eldest son, Lieutenant rivals of Germany to conclude transac
as in the case of the British University carldom upon his death will descend to the Hon. T. O. Hardinge, D.SO., died of tions and oust. Teutonic trade. If the at Hongkong, upon the engineering his brother or his brother's children. wounds in December; Lieutenant the statement that a demand for machinery education of the Chinese as one of the Already five peerages are without heirs Hon. Arthur S. Coke, second son of the and plant exists is contrasted with the means for securing orders for machiners the marquisato of Lincolnshire and the am Andrew Nugent of the. Fifteenth in remainder through the war, namely, Earl of Leicester; Captain the Hou, Wil- reports of stagnation in industrial Fon
the principle that when Chinese branches, the inconsistency will at once students become qualified engineers and baronies of Knaresborough, Playfair, Hussars, brother and heir of the Eori of Westmeath, who died of wounds; become obvious, and we prefer to accept occupy important positions they will a- Ribblesdale and Stamfordhẩm, the declaration of the British Commis tarally turn to the country with whose sioner, which is based upon the informatypes of machinery and technical terms namely, Lorda Congleton, Hawarden, ville, Master of Kinloss; Captain Hon. C Six peers have already been killed, Captain the Hon R. G. E. Morgen Gron tion gained after an extensive inquiry they have become acquainted. It was for Brabourne, Annesley, De Freyne and H. M. St. Clair, son of Lord Sinclair, and over a considerable portion of China, to this purpose that influential interests Petre.
Major Lord John Spencer Cavendish, that made in the report from Shanghai, Germany formed a few years ago the which, whilst probably correct for that Association for the Erection of Technical
Nearly thirty heirs to peerages have youngest brother of the Duke of Devon-
shire, district, must necessarily be more or less High Schools in China, whilst the Gerbeen killed and almost as many wounded. Fifty song of peers have been killed
The death of Lord Ribblesdale's only of a local character, or it may have been man Asiatic Society was constituted gen- designedly coloured for the purpose oferally for the promotion of export trade and the number wounded is in the hun- surviving son, the Hon. Charles Lister, deceiving
nations other than the Ger- with Far East. A meeting of the con- dreds.
removed an interesting character. Twenty- mans. What tends, however, further tomittees of these two associations has just Brothers of peers, baronets and knights seven years of age, he enlisted in the Hood stamp the Teutonic report with inac-been held in Berlin, where it was men-who have either been killed or wounded battalion of the Royal Naval Division and curacy is an error in another important tioned that despite the many difficulties aauber a great total.
wis wounded in two engagements pro- particular. We are told, for instance, caused by the war, the medical and How heavily the titled families have viously to sustaining in the third the ibat interests in the United States are engineering school established at Shang
wounds that caused his death. While at troubling themselves very little about the hai had developed during the past twelve
Eton he created a sensation in that ultra- Cainese market; in any case, not more months in an entirely satisfactory man-
conservative school by doctoring himself a than in former years, except in certain ner, that ways had been found for the
convert to socialism. special articles which are not specifically maintenance of the connection between numerated. But, according to the Sep- Berlin and the Shanghai institution, and beraber issue of the Journal of the that many of the teachers and students at The havoc that this war has played with Americar. Asiatic Association, grandiose the Tsingtau Technical High School had the aristocracy may be best indicated by plans have been conceived in American proceeded to the Shanghai school after a partial list of members of prominent Government circles for the extension of the occupation of Tsingtau by the Japan families killed, including Lord S. D. United States trado with China, The csc. The meeting adopted a resolution Compton, a Lieutenant in the Royal glans have been prepared by the United expressing the opinion that it was now Horse Guards, brother and heir presum States Ambassador in Peking, the com more urgent than ever to maintain the tive of the Marquis of Northampton; ausreial attaché there, and Dr. Pratt, school at Shanghai and to erect further Capt. M. A de Tuyil, of the Tenth-Hus
Lord Stamfordham, the private secretary chief of the Bureau for Domestic and German-Chinese schools in the interest of sars, youngest son of the Duchess of to King George, has lost his only son, Foreign Commerce at Washington, The the German share in the Chinese market, Beaufort Major the Hon. C. B. Capt. J. M. Bigge; Lord Desborough, the return of the Ambassador to the United and that energetic resistance should be Freeman-Mitford D.S.O, eldest son and famous sportsman, has lost two sun, bis States is associated with these plans, and offered to the efforts made by their heir of Lord Redesdale. The four the eldest, the Hon. Julian Grenfell, and a the commercial, attaché is to travel in the enemies, especially the English, to ex sons of Lord Redesdale are serving with United States in the ensuing winter include Germany from the Chinese market. the colours, two in the army and two in Funger, 8. W. Grenfell. order to advocate their execution. In A resolution of this nature, coming as it the navy. The last to join was the Hon. the first place, the scheme aims at the dog from the representatives of highly John Freeman-Mitford, who was formerly establishment of an American bank to in influential manufacturing and financial attached to the British Embassy in Ber- duce capitalists to become interested in circles, is deserving of careful considera-lin and about two years ago married the mining and industrial undertakings in tion in Great Britain, as it tends to show daughter of the German coal king, Herr China Next to this it is proposed to how keen will be the Teutonic attempts von Freidlander. The Hon. Colwyn endeavour to secure the Chinese market after the war to recover lost positions. A Phillips, elder son of Lord St. David's, for the United States machinery, in-curious example of how things may work was an early victim of the war. His
Aside from the peerage the rolls include dustry, and it is also suggested that cot out in favour of a defeated enemy nigy brother Roland, who is now sole heir, is familiar names such as Lient, Arthur 0. ton spinning mills, electricity works, tan- bere be mentioned. On the fall of Tsing a Lieutenant in the cavalry.
Hornung of the Third Essex, the son of neries, and all kinds of factories with tau a large number of German prisoners When the Earl of Erne died his ton E. W. Hornung author of "Raffles," American machinery should be erected in were taken and are now in comfortable and heir, Major Viscount Crichton, who Lieut. C. Holland, the son of Oscar Wilde, China, where it is likewise hoped to quarters 10 Hongkong and Japan had been equerry to the King, was re- and Lieutenant M. L. Braithwaite, attach obtain a good market for railway Many if not most, of these men were ported to have been taken prisoner in to the Royal Flying Corps, who was 4 materials Apparently the American gaged in Chinese commerce, and when Germany. Later information showed he brother of Miss Lillian Braithwaite, the Asiatic Association approves of the plans. they are released will return to Chisa died from wounds about the same time as well-known actress. although the difficulties of extending the with all the knowledge necessary for his father. Viscount Crichton left a son The death of Lord de Freyne recalls the American sphere of activity in Chiua are establishing their business. On the other born in 1007, who at the early age of interesting romance of his marriage with pointed out, particular stress being laid hand, 2. large proportion of the years has become the Earl of Erne. on the uncertainty as to the measure of most
an innkeeper's daughter, his disappear. active Englishmen FI
China Another pathetic case is that of Capt. nnca and discovery in the American army, support which may be given by the Gov-have joined the forces, and are Lord Guernsey, whose little son Michael, where he enlisted as a private. He is suc
now fighting, or have already given born in 1908, becomes the heir to the sari-ceeded by a half-brother. On the day Lord.. The American plans for developing the their lives for their country. The dom of Aylesford, ......-.---- export trade with China, which do not the Gormans will actually enjoy a post-
de Freyne died spather half-brother was appear to be directly associated with any war advantage from having been defeate Through the death of Viscount North- killed.
All the great families are in mourning schemes which may be contemplated by and made prisoners, unless steps are land, the only son of the Earl of Ban- the great individual steel and machinery taken to prevent it. Some people, con- furly, the hoir to the earidom is North- and the end is not yet, in sight, works, are as significant of the desired tend that if it is impossible to exchange land's little baby, born in May of this furtherance of business in the Far East these prisoners it would be better to send year.
is the wished-for recovery of trade in hem back now to Germany, as they are Lord Killania's heir is now the baby that region by the Germans after the con- almost sure to be enlisted and sent to the son of Liput. Col. S. R. Morris, who was A GALLANT AIRMAN, clusion of peace. In the case of the front.
killed some months agu. -Shanghai report previously referred to
We do not object to bond fide rivalry it is mentioned that the Chinese will re such as we generally and in the case of Jost his life in the war, was brother to Flight Commander Smyth Tigott for Lord Ninjan Crichton-Stuart, who, has The D.8.0. has been anvarded to quire European experts and machinery American firus, but British firms withe Marquis of Bute. He was also specially gallant service in Turkey on for the opening up or extension of the have to keep themselves thoroughly undescended from about the last of the royal the night of November 13th. He volun- mines, and that these opportunities will the alert if they intend to cbtain a larger favourites. This was the Earl of beered to attack the great bridge of Lule
Bute, who was friend and counsellor to Burgas, crossing the Maritan river con
crament,
to:
Death has claimed the eldest son and heir of the Earl of Yarborough, and two other sans, the Hon. George and the Hon. Marcus Sackville Pelham, are fighting in Flanders.
AUTHOR'S SÓN KILLED.
afford the Germans very profitable bros share of the Chinese trade by seen hit the boyhood of George III. It was he necting Constantinople with Dedeagatch
tion of branches of Gerpulsory liquida object should be achievable by private who was responsible for the doctrine that and Sofia. Commander Smyth Pigott
posts of doing busine. It is, however, frustrate Testonic competition stated that after the
firms at Hongterprise having the backing of Govern- kong the leasen to be learned is that no maut circles and the aid of our financial German firm should dispose of English institutions. Unless these facilities are goods in the future. Apparently this as rendered available-note that they are ertion has been made with the fure recognised to be necessary by the Ameri knowledge that no British firms will can Asiatic Association what is there benceforth permit: Teutons to become except absolute national bankrupter-to- familiar with their business, to the alti-prevent the Germans from again rising When Capt. Charles Monck was killed plane before I reached the bridge he mate disadvantage of the former and the to the occasion and trying to flout us oucebis nine-year-old son became heir to his returned in safety after a four hours advantage of the latter and of rival manu- more in the Far East The Engineer. grandfather. Viscount Monck;
fight.
King should not only, reign but govern. located the bridge by moon-glight which formula. The popular party lampooned to within three hundred feet before be was the precise was shining on the river, and descended. George, be a King, the favourite freely by exhibiting released his bombs The bridge guarda- jackboot -rather a clumsy stroke of fired at him heavily, but despite engine satire,
troubles which developed on his nero