NOW IN PREPARATION.
THE
DIRECTORY
AND CHRONICLE
1916.
FOR CHINA, JAPAN, COREA, INDO OHINA, SIAM, STRAITS SETTLE- MENTS, MALAY STATES, NETHERLANDS INDIA, PHILIP. PINES, BORNEO, ETC.
FIFTY-FOURTH ANNUAL ISSUE,
The Compilers invite the European noridents in the Far East who appreciate She advantage of having at their disposal thoroughly complete and trustworthy work of reference to cooperate with their returning promptly the forms sent out For revision, and by furnishing, also, the names of any European firms which have recently been established in their midst or any that have ceased to exist,
Those advertisers, also, who have not yet seat in their revised announcements for the 1018 issue of the volume are! eaked to do so, if possible, not later than the sad of this month.
In this way the usefulness of the will bo "Directory and Chronicle " increased and its early issue facilitated.
The Directories and Descriptions are af:
Poking.
fenbein.
Ostera.
Soochow. Canton.
Chinkiang Whampoa
Portaiko. Nanking. Kowloon.
Chinwangtao, Wuhu.
Lappa
Kowkiong. Samahni. Hankow
Taku.
Antung.
Manchurian Yoohow.
Trade Ctros, Bhansi.
Newchwang Ichang
Dairan...
Kengompon Nanning Wuchenfu. Kwangohauwan. Chungking. Pakhoi.
Port Arthur. Hangchow. Hoihow.
Chetoa.
Weihaiwel,
Ningpo.. Lungchow, Wenshow. Morgise.
Tainanfu.
Santu.
Hokow.
Murden.
Foochaw. Seemad:
Shanghai,
Amoy.
Tenggues..
Swatow.
JAPAN AND FORMOJA,
Tokyo.
Yokokams.
Froga.
Danka. Moji. Nagasaki.
Lobe.
Keelung. Tainunfu. Takow. Hakodate Anping:
Shimonowski, Tamani.
EASTERN STREILLA, Vladivostock. Nicolajersk
Beoul Chemipe.
Kuasan.
CHOHEN.
Wonian.
Fusan
Mokpo. Chinnampo,
Pingy ng. Songchin,
HongKong and 145 Darandanctus, Macao.
Hanoi.
FRENCH INDO-CHINA.
Annem.
Hué.
Bphong, L'onkin Provinces, Quiahon.
Tourans. Saigon. Cambodge.
PHILIPTIN
Manila.
Iloilo.
Ceba.
BORNEO.
Barawak. Arunei.
Perak.
Labuan.
British North Borneo,
BANGKOK.
MALAY.. STATES.
Belangor. Pabang.
Kodak Trengganu. Partia. Bingapore, Penang, Malacos, Prov, Wellesley,
Negri Sembilan, Johore.
Kelantan.
Batavia.
Buitensorg.
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BYRALER SETTLAMENTE, NezavazaNDS INDIA.
Samarang. Padang, Sourabaya. Macassar,
East Coast of Sumatra, NAVAL SQUADÉONS.
United States. Japanese. Bistheso. Italian,
OFFIORES OF COAT AND RIVER STRAMERS,
The Book is printed from Now Type specially reserved for the purpose, and uniformity in every arrangement greatly Facilitstar reference.
Besides the usual Alphabetical List of Firms the Directory gives the CLASSIFIED LISTS of TRADES and PROFESSIONS t the larger Commercial Centres.
The
ALPHABETICAL LIST of RESIDENTS of the last half century in the Far East contains the names of over.
20,000 FOREIGNERS, arranged, with the Initials as well as the Barasmes, in strictly Alphabetical Order, so that any name can be found instantly.
THE MAPS AND PLANS
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The CHRONICLE covers the notable events together with the Texts of all the most Important Treaties conciled with the ountries of Eastern Asia, the variona Customs Tariffa, Trade Regulations, Char bers of Commerce, Scales of Commissione Consals: and Court Fees, Hongkong Stamp Duties, Pastel Guide, Signal Codes, Chinese Festivals, Tables of Money, Weights and Measures and other Commercial Information,
The CHRONICLE and DIRECTORY, though condensed in every possible manner. ~contains every year 17ore pages. pages.
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Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hours ending at 10 am. to-day, 0.14 inches.
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OUR LONDON LETTER.
[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.]
SENTRIES OF THE AIR.
THE NAVAL AIR SERVICE. IN WAR TIME.
[BX 0. 4. GREY, EDITOR OF "THE AEROPLANE."]
thing like my motor crde," replied the white man, “axopt that it has wongs and can y through the air." What is it to be used for 1 next naked the servant. *To kill Germans," said the master. On that the native showed great excitement. and begged for a subscription form, say- LONDON, August 18th
ing, "I will do better than £5." A live GERMANY'S LOSS OF SUBMARINES.
pound note to an African native means It can do wo possible harm to mention the savings of a lifetime, so the white that Germany has fewer submarines thai man said no more about it, expecting What was his amaze aho hast when I last wrote. Our author othing to come.
ment some three or four days later when ties are making no public announcements the servant turned up again with 250
He had collected it all in small sums from theroon, but the statement I make hundreds of natives, who had gladly course, go into very minute details of Those in the know are quite drawn upon their little hoards when they individual actions, but a general account satisfied they have the submarine menace heard ther could take part in s blow of the doings of the R.N.A.S, is cortainly well within restricted limits, and the against the hated Germans whose infamworth placing on record.
Bocurate.
Germans would give what souls they have left to find out how it's done. They must koop guessing.
THE NEXT LORD MAYOK. Next year's Lord Mayor, Sir Charles Wakefield, takes a great interest in the future of the Far East, and has written a book on the prospects of the trade that in to come in your part of the world. He is a highly successful oil manufacturer by business and a sportsman and-art collector in his leisure moments. His progress to the highest office in the City has followed the usual course of Commoir Councilman, Alderman and Sheriff Ho holds orders galore, but at this date be probably values those from France and Belgium above the one conferred on him by Prussia-of course long before the war. NEED OF MEN IN THE MERCHANT SERVICE.
ous barbarity to the Herreros of Bouth West Africa had been reported to them The white resi den is were disinclined to take from by their own people. their poor neighbours so much of all, but the people were so insistent and strenuous in their protestations of delight at being able to contribute that the money was included and is now being expended in the production of another aeral avenger, which, let us hope, may ned by some budding Warneford, will presently gain the mastery of Teutonic Zeppelin out for baby murder.
THE GOSPEL OF HATE.
"WHO CANNOT HATE PROPERLY
CANNOT LOVE.",
When one comes to consider the work of the Royal Naval Air Service during the past twelve months one cannot, of
Although the work of the Royal Naval Air Service has had less influence on this actual course of the war than has the work of the B.F.O., this faut does not in
any way reflect on the bravery, activity, or ability of the naval aviators.
It is simply that events have thus befallen, chiefly owing to the German navy having chosen to sit at home in to coming out to cortgin preference
destruction.
Owing to this the R.N.A.S. has been deprived of ite major reason for oxist. ence, which was in the original intention the detection of the whereabouts of enemy. warships. Nevertheless, the Naval Air Service has done a vast amount of hard work, and has done it on the whole exceedingly well..
CONTINUOUS FATROL.
across
At the very beginning of the war, when the British Fleet was chiefly concerned with protecting the transport of the Bri- tish Expeditionary Force
the Channel, naval airships kept up a con tinual patrol thus covering any possible attempt of German warships to approach the Straits of Dover. At the same time aseaplane patrols guarded the routes.
The little girl in the song who said I don't want to play in your yard" was an amateur at the game of "Yah!" compared to the modern German public ist. Your true-blue Prussian is beginning to realise that the world is quite prepared to send Germany to Coventry for indefinite period, and he retorts proudly that that condition of splendid isolation is precisely what he wishes. not, and he could, associate with such common clay as the rest of the peoples of the earth.
He would
Now that Lloyd George has recalled twelve thousand skilled men from the front to help to push munition work for word, there is a cry for similar wisdom in regard to men who enlisted from the merchant service. There has been some thing very neay scandal in connection with those men, for some have been kick-on this topic is vitriolic: arthair heels under promise of employ" be whose comprehension has not yet been period only two lives were lost at sea, two
The scorn of the Deutsche Tageszeitung
All the world hates us. Whoever ho ment and others have been sent to duties able to grasp this trath and thinks that at coast stations that any clerk could do, protestations can wio him love, let him do so on his own account and at his owD It is no wonder that some have grown nail, only let him not attempt this fruit. tired and have gone to sea again. The less task in foreign lands, a procedure sdggestion has now been made to Mrby which he only succeeds in increasing
the number of the faint-hearted at home. Balfour that as the need for fully quali
"How, indeed, could the carrying by these females in trousers of their silly fied men is so great in the merchant sèr- vice all such, men да
are not given peace propaganda into the countries of the alleged neutrals lead to the diminu adequate employment should be set free, tion of this hatred. It is quite time that for in carrying on the commerce of the all this under-estimation of the real value of this hatred should cease. Hatred has country they can serve their nation as always been an important element in the truly as leewhere. Shipowners com development of war. Without hatred the Ho who plain most of all that the Admiralty have sword cannot attain its edge
cannot hate properly cannot love. Let takten men who were, and are, badly us show our pseudo-friends that we Ger wanted as engineers, and have employed mans cam do both in season. To beg for them as infantrymen, whereas such duties their love with apologetic mien for o
shortcomings, as is done by these well- could be done by men who cannot be used meaning up Germanised weaklings, world in the engine-rooni.
be lowering to our dignity and mische ous in its consequences. We are hated well and good, let us start an open com petition to decide which side can hate the most intensely."
CANADIAN MUNITION MAKURS,
To help in our factories, the first batch of skilled Canadian workmen has arrived in this country.
Most of them are un- married, but some are married and have brought along their wives and families.
SHIPS "IN ORDINARY,
The fact that these patrols discovered very little in the way of hostile vessela was not due to any remissness on their part but to the absence of enemy war- ships, and though one cannot, of course, give details of what the aviators did dis cover, it may be taken that their time was by no means wasted. During thi naval officers disappearing on a seaplane Their late still remains a mystery, because the machine itself was picked up. damaged but still afloat some days after they had disappeared, but the pilot passenger were not in it,
The various sealpane patrols between- then covered many thousands of miles during this period, and the fact that great credit not only on the officers whose there were only two lives lost reflects yery duty it was to ere that the machines and engines were kept in proper order, but also on the mechanics of the Naval Air Service who had to do the work..
BEAPLANE CARRIERS.
Shortly after the outbreak of war vari- ous ships were commissioned as scaplane briefly mentioned in Admiralty despatches. carriers, and several of these have been Seaplanes carried on these ships raided Cuxhaven and the German const in the vicinity: A considerable amount of information was gathered, and some material damage was done, but that is a'l that has been heard officially of that
particular squadron.
Other scaplane carrying ships have done good work at the Dardanellés, and hare asisted in the operations which destroyed the Kanigsberg,
All have been given fred return passes Fred T. Jane asking the exact meaning of Belgian coast towns which are occupied
A correspondent having written to Mr. across the Atlantic They comprise the old phrase about a ship being laid turmers, shipwrights, coppersmiths, fitters, up in ordinary," he replies-It is beyond engineers and machinists. Most of them me to say how the phrase originated, but 1. rather suspect that it has some considerable have been employed in industrial centres connection with the fact that in the old in the Eastern Province, but some have days say, in Stuart limes there came come from the cities nearer to the Pacific practice of building ships and keeping. cbast. Great care is stated to have been them on the slips till they were needed for 1905. The reason for this was that once taken in the selection of these men, and afloat their wooden hulls rapidly deterior- "In ordinary," I fancy, was do the selection is still proceeding, not only ated. with a view to sending England all posrived from ordinary conditione," as op-
posed to "war conditions." sible expert aid, but also to adjust mat- ters so that the munitions recruiting interferes as little as possible with the production of supplies in Canada.
NOTABLE BETROTHAL.
Seaplanes have also assisted in control ling the fire of warships bombarding the by the Germans, and have taken part in various raids against Zeebrugge nad Ostend.
In addition to its airships and sea planes, the Navy has used a large num ber of shore going aeroplanes which have been exceedingly active.
A considerable amount of fighting, was done, the aeroplanes acting on occasion
scouts for the armoured core, and occasionally as actual weapons of offence themselves, but the first definite actions of importance carried out by the
R.N.A.B. wore the two raids into Gori man territory, in the second of which the airship shed at Düsseldorf and a brand now Zeppelin were destroyed by bombs.
Not only was the loss of the Zoppelin a serious moral blow at that time, but the demonstration, that German towns, which considered themesives safe from cault, could not be curtain of r pesce ful existence also had an annoying morat effect.
PIN-PRICKS.
Later on, when in the eighteenth century the matter of decay was gone into scienti- fically, it was found possible to preserve ships from decay when they were laid un in harbour at the end of a war; and so, I think "in ordinary came into use to de- The engagement of Sir John French's seribe a ship out of commission.
Exactly when the term died out I do not aldest son to the daughter of Major Gen-know. Fincham, in his work on Naval eral John and niece and adopted daugh- Architecture," published in 1851, uses "in ter of Lady Charlemont has roused more ordinary" in exactly the same way that before the war we talked of peucloids," than usual interest, because of the or a few years before that of the Fleet Antwerp and Ostend, various land going Thereafter, when the Germans occupied speculation as to whether "shy" French, leserve, or the more picturesque phrase detachments of the Naval Air Service as Sir John is called by his friends, will of "Gobby-ship."
were stationed in the vicinity of Dun On the whole, however, the Fleet Rekirk, and carried on a consistent policy take a flying visit to this country to be serve of twenty years ago, whom ships werof pin pricks against the Germans in present at the wedding. Before the war laid up in harbour with a warrant officer
Belgium German stores depots atid Ger he was known for his detestation of any-and half a dozen men to wander round man airship sheds at Brussels and Ghent were continually bombed, submarines in them doing nothing in particular, best de- thing like public show, and the attemptribes ordinary." Our forefathers the making at Antwerp were damaged, made to lionise him after the Boer War were practical people; but war was a lei-submarines in the docks near Ghent and bored him to distraction. May be the surely affair in their time. To get to ia the harbour at Zeebrugge were sub stirring events of the last year and the work a few months after the declaration of jected to continual bombardment, and war was all right-the enemy were just altogether the naval aviators inanaged to long absence from home may have modi- in the came boat.
keep the Germans thoroughly awake akid Fervous. fied this distaste to figuring in so plea sant w social function as a wedding, but whether he can be spared from the front is another matter. Still, he has a magni ficent man in Sir Douglas Haig to leave in charge-a man regarded by Tominy Atkins with something akin to idolatry, for he is not merely a brilliant general but a man who in tight corners likes to be to the thick of his fighting men,
THE AFRICAN AND THE GERMAN.
NAVAL COURTS-MARTIAL.
across a
Probably the finest justification of this policy, was shown when in one day naval In aviators destroyed two Zeppelins. one case two of them dropped bombs on The war has served to break down a shed with a Zeppelin inside it, and in several old traditions, writes Mr. Fred T. | the other an officer who was in search of
Of another shed elsewhere came. Jane in one of the London papers. these one is the old rule that a court-martial Zeppelin returning from a raid on the could only be held afloat a thing which British coast and destroyed it while in in these days of shore establishments has the air. caused endless convenience to all concern ed. There is now in operation a new regulation permitting courts martial to be bold on shore in naval barracks. Thus has the War swept away one ridiculous anomaly.
A correspondent in Northern Rhodesia sends an effective little story which illu-
Which reminds me of the old gentleman, strates how far the hatred of the Germans an enthusiastic Navy Leaguer, who visit and attachment to the British goes in ed Portsmouth and stood on the Hard and the out-of-the-way corners of the earth. looked at Nelson's Victory lying in the blue The white residents started a subscription and emerald waters of the harbour, the san dazzle on the water, and on all the for the provision of an aeroplane or its other things that Portsmouth Harbour a equivalent in cash, as a present to the A bluejacket passed, The old gentle British Government. The correspondent man seized him, and pointed to Nelson's duly received his form for subscriptions Victory Boating in the midst of the glory which he casually showed to his native “D'cou know what that ship means, my
Rather," reply servant, jocularly remarking. Would' man?" he exclaimed.
you like to give £51" What is an the bluejacket, it's the old tub they
Some hold courts-martial in!". aeroplane?' asked the black.
#:
the
Apart from their regular policy of frightfulness in Flanders as the naval aviators jokingly call it a very notable raid was made on Friedrichshafen hy three officers, who did considerable damage to the Zeppelin works there and to new, Zeppelins under construction, which caused so much delay in the output that the net result was equivalent to destruction of a complete Zeppelin. One officer was shot down and taken prisoner, All three were awarded the D.S.O., and the French Legion of Honour as well. i
Varicus small detachments of the Naval Air Service have also cooperated of late with the Royal Flying Corps in the regular routine of reconnaissance and artillery fire control. Or the whole therefore, it may be seen that, in spite of lack of opportunity. the Naval Air Service has done really good work.
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