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ICHANG-CHUNGKING

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

Yang Fu-ching, agent

CHINA INLAND MISSION

G. and Mrs. Nicoll

DIRECTORY

CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Lu Hsiang, manager

司公除保川利

CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMPANY, LD.

Archd. Little, manager (Chungking)

Yang Lan-chow, agent

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MISSION

Rev. Wm. and Mrs. Deans

*** Ta Ying ling-shih

CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN

Consul-C. W. Everard Constable-T. J. Olsen

**E** Ta-me-kwoh ya-men CONSULATE United StATES OF AMERICA Consul-Jacob T. Child (Hankow)

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I-chang-kwan CUSTOMS-Imperial MariTIME

Acting Commissioner-Fr. Schjöth Assistant-E. A. Aldridge

Do. J. B. Fitzgibbon Medical Officer-E. A. Aldridge Tidesurveyor-W. Stebbins

Acting Boat Officer-H. A. Farrell Assistant Examiner-C. H. Erskine Tidewaiters-M. Hellstrand, J. V.

Jensen, F. J. Rowsell, T. J. Edwards, J. Ferguson, F. S. Jobst, E. Sioen

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

C. Him-shan, agent

Agencies

Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

JENKINS, M. A., Merchant ; res. Hankow

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✰ Lih-teh

LITTLE, ARCHD., Merchant; Owner Str.

"Y-ling Agencies

North China Insurance Company China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.

Tien-choo-tang

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Right Rev. Fr. Benjamin Christiaens Bishop tit. of Colophon and Vicar Apostolic of Southern Hupeh Rev. Fr. Giovanni Franzoni Rev. Fr. Gabriel van Gestel, Kin-chow Rev. Fr. Ansgarius Braun

Rev. Fr. Laurentius Fuchs, Che-nan Rev. Cassianus Kleinenbroch Rev. Angelus Timmers

Rev. Fr. Basilius Papin, Kin-men Rev. Mauritius Robert

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Rev. Sœurs Franciscaines

Rev. Mère Magdeleine de Pazzi, vicaire provinciale, Mère Marie de la Trans- figuration and three Sisters

CHUNGKING

The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 30 sec. N. long., 107 deg. 2 min. E., may well be described, as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen, but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province. All exports-yellow silk, white wax, hides, leather, feathers, bristles, rhubarb, musk, opium, and the large assortment of Chinese medicines are received, assorted, repacked, and shipped to Ichang, Hankow, and Shashi, consignments to the latter port being transhipped there into smaller junks, and forwarded to the southern provinces, vid the Tung Ting lake.

The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtsze, 1,250 miles from the mout hof the