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SOOCHOW-CHINKIANG
POLICE
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CHILI & Co., Merchants
K. Arai
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Massimo Denegri, manager
CONSULATES
GREAT BRITAIN
Consul-
JAPAN
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Inspector of Police-T. Ogura
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Assistant Examiner-T. C. Burchett Tidewaiters-C. Ahlberg, G. Knox, J.
H. West
Kiangsu Likin Collectorate
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Do -W. H. C. Weippert
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1 interpreter, 44 sergeants and con-
stables
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Assistant Postal Officer, Mitu Bridge--
W. Scott
City office, Do.,-C. H. Shields
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Acting Postmaster-S. Futatsubashi
Soo KING SILK FILATURE
Chou Hon-ying, director
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Soo LUNG COTTON SPINNING MILL Co., LD.
Cho Sou-ying, c.Q., general manager
Walter C. Wood, M.I.M.E., manager
Won Me-foo, assistant manager
Hur Yuen-sung, secretary
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Soo SIN & Co., Merchants
T. Hayashi
司公船輪東大
TAITO STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
K. Kaizu
WU SING SILK FILATURE
Ting Ju-ling, manager
CHINKIANG
Hot Chinking
江鎮
The port of Chinkiang (or Chên-kiang-fu), which was declared open to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin, is situated on the Yangtsze, about 150 miles from its mouth, and at the point where the Grand Canal enters the river.
The history of Chinking possesses but few features of interest. The town, as a translation of its name implies (“River Guard"), was at one time a post of considerable importance from a military point of view, when all the rice-tribute from the south of China was transported to Peking by the interior route. The British forces captured the place in July, 1842, and as the cutting off of supplies always operates with great effect, the commanding situation thus secured was not long in producing the desired result upon the Central Government, for the Treaty of Nanking was signed a month afterwards. The Taiping rebels entered the town in April, 1853, and continued to occupy it till 1857, when they had to evacuate it from the same cause which had made the Government yield fifteen years before.
The city lies between one of the mouths of the Grand Canal and the right bank of the Yangtsze. Most of the houses are built on level ground, but the surrounding hills lend a pleasant appearance to the locality, which is considerably enhanced by the bluff scenery of the island of Ts'io-shan. When the city was abandoned by the rebel forces, its destruction was very nearly complete, and it has even now hardly recovered its former prosperous aspect. The city is enclosed by walls and defended by rather
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