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MASAMPO-MOKPO
MASAMPO
浦山馬
Masampo was opened to Foreign Trade on the 1st May, 1899.
Its native
population is 34,000 and foreign 300. Regular lines of small steamers connect the port
of Fusan. The imports in 1902 amounted to $3,365 and the exports to $7,338.
Masampo has attained considerable prominence during the past year in the World's
Press as being a port which Russia is anxious to dominate.
官事領本日
CONSULATE JAPAN
Consul-J. Sakata
Secretary R. Watanabe
Do. T. Kokubu
Inspector of Police-E. Sakai
官事領國俄
CONSULATE-RUSSIA
Vice-Consul-G. Kozakow
CUSTOMS
關海浦山馬國韓
DIRECTORY
Comsnr.---W. McC. Osborne (Fusan)
Acting Assnt. in charge-W. Armour
T'-waiters--S. Fujimoto, S. Miyasaki
Clerk-Kim Yi Hyen
院信通國帝韓大
IMPERIAL KOREAN COMMUNICATION DEPT.
Postmaster-Chiung Cha Sun
Telegraph Manager-So Sung Sock
JAPANESE HOTEL
T. Horiye
MISSION
FRENCH MISSIONARY (M.E.)
G. Mousset
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
Chairman-J. Sakata
Secretary-H. Ogura
Treasurer-H. Houben
POST AND TELEGRAPH OFFICe (Corean)
Telegraph Manager-Kwan Chai Hyek Postmaster-Cheung Chai-ün
POST OFFICE (Japanese)
Director-J. Sakata Secretary-Y. Kawai Dc. -H. Shinjio
RUSSIAN HOTEL
A. Chijikoff, manager
MOKPO
浦木 Mok-po
Mokpo, which, like Chinnampo, was opened to foreign trade on the 1st October, 1897, in pursuance of a resolution of the Council of State, is a seaport in the province of Chulla, and has an excellent harbour capable of providing anchorage accommodation for thirty or forty vessels of large tonnage. Chulla is a great rice growing district and has the reputation of being the wealthiest province in the country, and Mokpolies at the mouth of a river which drains nearly the whole province. The Consular report for 1898 says:-Mokpo has undergone a great transformation since it was opened eighteen months ago. It then consisted of a few Corean huts surrounded by paddy fields and mud flats. The foreign settlement, which comprises about 225 areas of
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