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GERMAN

Postmaster-K. L. Horn

IMPERIAL Chinese

PEKING-TIENTSIN

Postal Commissioner-E. Tollefsen Postal Assistants-H. G. C. Perry- Ayscough (Kaifeng), G. E. Osland Hill, G. J. Beytagh (Kaifeng)

Dep. P'masters-C. H. Shields, J.

Tweedie (Taiyuan)

Dist. Inspectors-E. Schaumlöffel

(Sianfu), P. Petersen

Postal Officers-E. Encarnação, G.

Tonkin

JAPANESE

Postmaster-K. Sugino

Senior Clerk-M. Nakagawa

Assistants-M. Yuasa, S. Hirata

RUSSIAN

Postmaster A. Rakitzky

REUTER'S NEWS AGENCY

A. Cotter, agent

RUSSO-CHINESE BANK

E. Wilhfahrt, manager

R. Barbier, signs per pro.

L. Goldman, signs per pro.

J. Niezabytowski, signs per pro. A. Dorliac

V. V. Ilmar

RUSSO-CHINESE SCHOOL

G. Smykaloff, 1st teacher P. Bazaroff, 2nd do.

SINGER SEWING MACHINE Co.

SOCIÉTÉ FRANÇAISE D'IMPORTATION

657

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D'EXPORTATION, TH. CULTY ET CIE,

D. Duran

SYLVA, J. A., Commission Agent

局字印堂興德

TE HSING TANG PRINTING OFFICE

Shigesaku Ichiyama, proprietor

T. Ichiyama, manager

TELEGRAPHS, IMPERIAL CHINESE

H. F. Henningsen, superintendent

Vrard & Co., Jewellers

WANNIECK, L., Merchant

E. Dumetier

隆信

Shin.loong

WARDROPER, W. S., & Co., Merchants

行銀金正濱機

Heng-Pin-Cheng-Ching

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, Limited; Tel.

Ad. Nabekra

K. Inouye, manager

S. Jissoji, sub-manager

S. Ishimaru, signs per pro.

M. Miyagi

I. Nakao

Y. Nakagawa K. Naitow

Y. Ikeda

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF

PEKING

R. R. Gailey, M.A., general secretary D. W. Edwards, M.A., secretary

TIENTSIN

津天 Tien-tsin

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Yun Ho or Hwae River, better known as the Grand Canal, with the Pei-ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 3 min, 56 sec. E. It is distant from Peking by road about 80 miles, but the bulk of the enormous traffic between the two cities is now by the railway, which was opened in 1897, and the line doubled in November 1898. Tientsin was formerly a place of no importance and till recently had few historic associations; till the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.) it was only a second rate military station, but at the northern terminus of the Grand Canal it gradually assumed commercial importance, and by the end of the seventeenth century had become a great distributing centre. The navigability of the Pei-ho for sea-going junks ceases at Tientsin, and this made it the emporium for the very large quantities of tribute rice yearly sent up to the capital, after the Grand Canal shoaled up so as to be unfit for carriage in bulk. The trade of the city was imperilled by the silting up of the Pei-ho, but a river improvement scheme of some magnitude was inaugurated in 1898 under Mr. A. de Linde, and the Peace Protocol of 1901 contains clauses which constitute a Board of Conservancy (now in existence) and the provision of fairly liberal funds for the maintenance of the works. It is, however,

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