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KELUNG-TAINAN-FU, TAKOW, AND ANPING

KELUNG DIRECTORY

店支藤後

gai; Head Office, Kobe

GOTO & SONS, K., Merchants, 56, Shosentow-

I. Akagi, manager

K. Numati

E. Ozeki

Agency

Imperial Marine Insurance Co., Tokyo

MURAI BROTHERS & Co., of Kyoto, Tobac-

conists

H Narikawa, manager

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NIPPON YUSEN Kaisha (Japan Mail Steam-

ship Co.)

K. Kondo, acting agent

H. Kodaira

隆基社會式株船商阪大

OSAKA SHOSEN Kaisha (Osaka Commercial

Steamship Co.)

K. Abe, manager

M. Tsuzuki, acting-manager

TAINAN-FU, TAKOW, AND ANPING

The city of Tainan-fu [until 1889 known as Taiwan], situated in lat. 23 deg. 6 min. N. and long. 129 deg. 5 min. E., is the commercial capital of Formosa. It is for an Eastern city moderately clean and well paved. The walls are some five miles in circumference. The shipping port of Tainan-fu is Anping, situated on the coast about three miles to the eastward of the city and connected with the suburbs by a creek. The port is an open roadstead, vessels having to anchor a mile or so from the beach. From the 1st November to the end of May the anchorage is a perfectly safe one, but during the S. W. monsoon a heavy swell sets in, rendering it difficult, and at times impossible, for vessels to load or discharge. Anping has of late risen greatly in importance, the foreign firms making it their head quarters instead of Takow, which port in former years was considered of more significance. Tempered by sea breezes, Anping during the summer months can boast of a cool climate. From 1st October to the end of April there is little or no rain, and the temperature leaves nothing to be desired. Sugar is the principal export of South Formosa; the export in 1898 amounted to 792,983 cwt., as against 770,510 cwt. in 1897. The value of the total foreign trade of the port in 1898 was £784,627 as compared with £612,284 in 1897.

Takow is a port twenty-four miles to the southward of Anping. It takes little or no share in the import trade, but is a principal centre for the sugar export trade.

The last stand against the Japanese was made at Tainan-fu, Takow, and Anping, by Liu Yung-fu, the Black Flag General. Takow was bombarded on the 15th October and the resistance collapsed without any serious fighting, and Tainan-fu and Anping were occupied on the 21st October.

ANPING LAUNCH COMPANY

Bain & Co., managers

記怡 Ee-kee

BAIN & Co., Merchants

A. W. Bain

H. W. Arthur

Ko Thieng Sang

Agencies

DIRECTORY

Hongkong and S'hai. Banking Corpn. Bank of China and Japan, Limited Norddeutscher Lloyd

Douglas Steamship Company, Limited Indo-China S. N. Company, Limited China Navigation Company

Canadian Pacific Railway Company Nippon Yusen Kaisha

Lloyd's

Liverpool Underwriters' Association Canton Insurance Office, Limited

China Traders' Insurance Co., Limited Hongkong Fire Insurance Co., Limited British Foreign Marine Insurance Co. South British Fire and Marine Ins. Co.

REMINGTON TYPEWRITERS render reliable service.