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HANKOW-YOCHOW

AX Tien-shun Kung-sze

TIEN SHUN SYNDICATE

N. Molotkoff (Moscow), A. P. Maligin

directors

Alex. Rose, manager

Tong-Fei

To-HI & Co.: Tel. Ad. Tohiyoko

N. Ogata, manager

S. Tachibana

Agencies

Mitsui Bishi Co., Ld.

Japan Marine Insurance Co.

泰新 Hsin.tai

TRADING COMPANY, THE Successer

to

Alex. Goobkin, A. Koosnetzoff & Co. : Tel.

G. J. Tooritzin, signs per pro.

Ad.Gubkinkusnezoff, HeadOffice, Moscow

W. J. Grigorieff

W. R. Lebedeff

N. J. Falk

T. A. Kovalsky John K. Panoff

G. T. Postnikoff

S. D. Tihomiroff

V. W. Tokmakoff

行池器機裕光

do.

do.

Kwang-hue-che-ch'e-yu-hong

VACUUM OIL COMPANY

A. R. Burtenshaw, manager

VERMILION AND WHITE LEAD FACTORY

Volkart Bros.

R. E. Lee

利達亨 Hang-dah-le

VRARD & Co., L. (in Liquidation)

H. Laidrich, liquidator

E. Binder

C. Monbaron

房藥大氏臣租

WATSON & Co., LD., A. S., "The Hongkong

Dispensary," Chemists and Druggists,

Aerated Waters Makers, Wine, Spirit and

Cigar Merchants

H. J. Ling, manager

司公司敬

WEEKS & Co., Ld., Drapers, Milliners and

General Furnishers

H. J. McCubbin

F. X. Machado

A Koong-sin

信公

WELCH, Lewis & Co., Merchants

田志 Chih-din

YOSHIDA YOKO, General Merchant

T. Takatsuji signs per pro.

H. Yoshida

S. Abe

T. Ishihara

M. Kawano

R. Onishi

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK

YOCHOW

Yochow, with a population of 15,000 to 20,000, is situated in latitude 29°23' N., and longitude 113' 8' E. (Greenwich), at the outlet of the Tungting Lake. Past it ebbs and flows practically the whole of "the trade of Hunan, which, however, adds nothing to the prosperity of the place, as it simply passes by after having paid its inward and outward taxes. The city is the gateway of the province and nothing more. Efforts are being made, by Japanese, to find adequate communication with Changteh, the trule centre, whose opening to foreign trade was talked of in 1906. The opening of Changsha took away much of Yochow's transit trade.

The province of Hunan used to be to foreign commerce what Tibet has been to the explorer-a Forbidden Land-and it is only a few years ago that foreigners were stoned out of Yoshow. In 1904, the people were described as showing a "friendly attitude to all foreigners. The anti-foot-binding crusade has done well in Hunan, which was once the most anti-foreign province in all China. They are intensely patriotic, but their patriotism is rather for Hunan than for the Empire at large,

The province, is rich in many forms of wealth, though the inhabitants say it consists of “three parts mountain, six water, and one arable soil." One of the main staples is rice, of which nearly a million piculs are sent out of the province, to Hupeh and Kueichow, in an average year. The Hunan tea sent to Hankow amounts to