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at the same time as the other Formosan ports. The limits of the port are defined to be within a straight line drawn from Image Point to Bush Island. On the 5th August, 1884, the port was bombarded by the French under Admiral Léspes, when the forts above the town were reduced to ruins, and the place captured. It was then garrisoned by the French, who held it until after the Treaty of Peace had been signed at Tientsin in June, 1885. The place was occupied by the Japanese on the 3rd June, 1895.

At Kelung the harbour works authorities have been occupied in drawing up plans for the proposed improvements, and actual work only commenced in November of last year, when two dredgers started work deepening the bottom of the harbour. The construction of a breakwater is included in the programme. A slipway is at Kelung for vessels of 400 tons but a project is on foot to enlarge it to accommodate vessels up to 1,000 tons. Designs for another slipway are under consideration by the naval authorities. During 1900 a lighthouse was completed on Pak-sa Point, a low headland on the west coast, some 20 miles south-west of Tamsui.

The railway line between Tamsui and Daidotei (Twatutia) was opened on 25th Au- gust, 1901, and has been of great benefit to the people of the district. The actual cost of construction was insignificant, the line having been laid upon a practically level sur- face for nearly the whole of its route. Over 76 miles of railways are now in working order in this district, which are to extend from Kelung to the south of the island, and now reach to Shinchiku, the remaining 13 miles constituting the line between Taihoku and Tamsui. In the south the line has been completed and is in working order as far north as Kagi, nearly 67 miles from Takow, thus making in all some 143 miles over which traffic is running. The capital, called by the Chinese Taipeh, is now under the Japanese nomenclature, called Taihoku. Twatutia will be found in the Japanese postal guide as Daidotei. It is here, on the outskirts of Taihoku, and on the Tamsui River which flows past Daidotei, that the foreign merchants have their residential and business quarters. At the mouth of the Tamsui River lies the town of Hobé, in Japanese Kobi, but now most usually called Tamsui to avoid confusion with Kobe in Japan proper.

TAIHOKU (TAIPEH) AND DAITOTEI

(TWATUTIA) DIRECTORY

利華 Hwa Lee

AVERILL & Co., Merchants

W. Hohmeyer, signs per pro.

A. W. Gillingham

行銀灣台社會式橡

BANK OF TAIWAN, LIMITED, THE(Kabushiki-

Kwaisha Taiwan Ginko); Head Office,

Taipeh: Tel. Ad. Taigin

Directors K. Yagiu (president), T.

Doki, H. Kawasaki, M. Tatsuno, T. Shimosaka

K. Nagas, manager

記和 Ho.kee

BOYD & Co., Merchants

E. Thomas

CANADIAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Rev. Wm. Gauld

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Committee-E. H. Low (chairman), C. H. Best, A. C. Bryer, E. Thomas, George S. Beebe

CoNSULATES

CUBA

Acting Consul-Jas. W. Davidson

DENMARK

Consul-C. H. Best

GREAT BRITAIN

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

Agencies

SPAIN

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited Lloyd's

Consul R. De. B. Layard

Shipping Clerk-M. FitzGerald

F. G. Kell, tea inspector

China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. China Navigation Company, Limited Foochow Saw Mills Company

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

GERMANY

Consul-F. Reinsdorf

Clerk-H. Moeller

Interpreter-D. Watanabe