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ICHANG-CHUNGKING

DIRECTORY

AMERICAN CHURCH MISSION

Rev. H. C. Collins, M.D.

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

Yang Fu-ching, agent

Agencies

China Navigation Company, Limited

Union Insurance Society of Canton

CHINA INLAND MISSION

(Vacant)

Assistant Examiner-C. H. Erskine Tidewaiters-M. Hellstrand, J. V. Jensen, F. J. Rowsell, T. J. Edwards' J. Ferguson, F. S. Jobst

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., Merchants

C. Him-shan, agent

Agencies

Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited Canton Insurance Office, Limited

Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Ld.

CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION CO. | JENKINS, M. A., Merchant ; res. Hankow

Lu Hsiang, manager

司公險保川利

CHUNGKING TRANSPORT COMPANY, LD.

Archd. Little, manager (Chungking)

CHURCH OF SCOTLAND MISSION

Rev. Wm. and Mrs. Deans

Rev. Thos. and Mrs. Kearney

事領英大 Ta Ying ling.shi诉

CONSULATE GREAT BRITAIN

Consul-C. W. Everard (absent)

Acting Consul-Herbert F. Brady Constable--T. J. Olsen

門衙國美大

*** Ta-me-kwoh ya-men

CONSULATE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Consul-Jacob T. Child (Hankow)

昌宜

I-chang-kwan

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-Fr. Schjöth

Assistant-E. A. Aldridge

Do. J. B. Fitzgibbon

Medical Officer-E. A. Aldridge,

M.R.C.S., L.R.C.P.I.

Harbour Master and Tidesurveyor-

W. Nelson Lovatt

Acting Boat Officer-H. A. Farrell

德立 Lih-teh

LITTLE, ARCHD., Merchant; Owner Str.

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Agencies

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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

Chen-mou-tang-

Rev. Sœurs Franciscaines

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

SWEDISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Rev. K. W. Engdahl

Rev. Axel and Mrs. K. Fernström

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, via 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, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the