MISSIONS
SOOCHOW-CHINKIANG
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China Directory
POLICE
Superintendent-A. Olsen
Inspector-
2 inptrs., 68 sergeants and constables
局政郵清大
POST OFFICE IMPERIAL CHINESE
District Postmaster-F. A. Morgan
District Postal Officer--C. H. Shields
Mitu Bridge Office
Asst. Clerks-Tsê Pau Yü C. Lan
Sung, Ling Hsieh Tsao
City Office
Clerks
Tung E Wo, Wong Ling
Chang, Sze Ding Bing
Wusih Office
Clerk-Shen Lü Sung
Changshu Office
Clerk-Yü Pang Chi
局便郵州蘇本日大
Ta-jih-pen Soo-chow-yu-pien-chi
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL JAPANESE
Postmaster-N. T. Oka
Assistant Clerk-T. Sato
堂學大吳東
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SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
President-Rev. D. L. Anderson
Professors-N.G. Gee, R. S. Anderson,
R. D. Siuark
Soo KING Silk Filature
Chou Hon-ying, director
Minoretti
### Soo-lung-ou-chang
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
興蘇
Soo SIN & Co., Merchants
T. Hayashi
司公船輸東大
TAITO STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
K. Kaizu
WU SING SILK FILATURE
Ting Ju-ling, manager
Clerk-J. Berthelot
CHINKIANG
II. Et Chin-kiêng
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 Chinkiang 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 Goverument, 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 formidable looking batteries commanding the river approaches. The foreign settlement occupies a tract of land extending from the mouth of the Canal along the bank of the river. The little settlement has a neat bund, is provided with a club, and has small Protestant and Catholic churches. It was the scene of a formidable riot on the 5th February, 1889, when about half the foreign houses and buildings were destroyed by a native mob. The population of Chinkiang is estimated at 140,000.
The net value of the foreign imports for 1901 was Tls. 16,684,951, as compared with Tls. 12,865,324 in 1900. The net value of the trade of the port for 1901 amounted to Tls. 27,389,216, against Tls. 23,206,055 in 1900.
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