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KELUNG-TAINAN, TAKOW, AND ANPING

KELUNG DIRECTORY

店支藤後

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

gai; Head Office, Kobe

S. Tanaka, manager

K. Numati

E. Ozeki

S. Fukuda

Agency

Imperial Marine Insurance Co., Tokyo

NIPPON YUSEN KAISHA (Japan Mail S.S. Co.)

K. Kondo, manager

Y. Noro

G. Maruyama

S. Yamaguchi

K. Osashima

隆基社會式船商阪大

OSAKA SHOSEN KAISHA (Osaka Mercantile

Steamship Co.)

K. Abe, manager

K. Annaka, sub-manager

Agency

Tokyo Marine Insurance Company

SAMUEL SAMUEL & Co., Merchants, 10, Gyuchokosho & 63, Sansawan: Tel. Ad. Orgomanes

Y. Shirao M. Oda

Agencies

(See Under Taipeh)

TAINAN, TAKOW, AND ANPING

The city of Tainan (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. The foreign residents in 1901 numbered 43, including 34 British, 8 Spanish, and 1 German subjects. These numbers have changed but little. 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. The value of the total foreign trade of the Tainan district comprising the two ports of Anping and Takow, approaches one million pounds sterling, Kerosine is the only import which remains in the hands of foreigners. The Government-General has established a special bureau for the encouragement of the sugar industry and the management of all matters relating to sugar. Its object is to improve the methods of cultivation and manufacture of sugar. Of the six staples of Formosan trade, namely, tea, opium, camphor, salt, sugar and rice, three-opium, camphor and salt-have already been monopolised by the Formosan Government-General, which now derives three-fourths of its ordinary revenue from these sources. Formerly, the trade in opium and camphor in this district was in the hands of the few foreign merchants at this port, and amounted, before the Japanese occupation, to nearly £250,000 annually. Since the creation of the monopo- lies the merchants have thus been deprived of two-thirds of their income. They feel the hardship particularly in the case of the camphor trade, which was originated and developed in this district entirely by their capital and enterprise, and for the loss of which they have as yet received no equivalent.

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, 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 and Anping were occupied on the 21st October.

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