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院學醫東日

SOOCHOW--CHINKIANG

MEDICAL PRACTICE & MEDICAL SCHOOL

M. Toyabe, M.D.

J. Takata, assistant

MISSIONS

For Prot. Missions see end of China Diry.

NEW YORK LIFE INSURANCE Co., Ld.

R. S. Anderson

POLICE

Superintendent—A. Olsen Inspector-

2 inptrs., 68 sergeants and constables

局政郵清大

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE

District Postmaster-W. F. Spinney

District Postal Officer--N. Chieri

Mitu Bridge Office

Asst. Clerks Lee Sat Hin, C. Lan Sung, YangChünSen, LaiTsu Kwen City Offices

Clerks

M

Wong Ling Chang, Tung

局便郵州蘇本日大

Ta-jih-pen Soo-chow-yu-pien-chü

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL JAPANESE

Postmaster-N. T. Oka

Assistant Clerk-S. Kumagai

***** Tung-woo-ta-hok-tong 堂學大吳東

SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY

President-Rev. D. L. Anderson

Professors-W. B. Nance, N. G. Gee,

R. D. Smart, W. W. Brockman, B. D. Lucas

SOO KING SILK FILATURE

Chou Hon-ying, director

Minoretti

廠紗

## Soo-lung-sou-chang

耣蘇

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

E Wo, Tse Pau Yü, Deng Tze Yean, Soo SIN & Co., Merchants

Ling Hsieh Tsao

Wusih Office

Clerk-Shen Lü Sung

Changshu Office

Clerk-Yü Pang Chi

Moto Office

Clerk-Tan Tsu Pei

司公船輪東大

TAITO STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

WU SING SILK FILATURE

Ting Ju-ling, manager

J. Berthelot, clerk

CHINKIANG

VI Hệ Chin-hiêng

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 opening of the Lu-Han (Peking-Hankow) Railway last year has seriously reduced its importance as a distribut- ing centre. The navigability of its waterways was said (last year) to be “urgently needing improvement.

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 Government, 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.

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