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the churches were also mercilessly stripped. The water supply and electric systems suffered, as the Chinese cut away lead pipes, copper wire, and brass spouts, etc.; but the damage has since been repaired. There were only two days between the time when the Russians evacuated the town till the Japanese entered, and during these two days, the Chinese carried away more than 300 cart loads of goods from the European quarter. The roads in the European town" are macadamised and are 50 kilometres in total length. The town is of the radial or spider web design, the centres being on high points on which sites for important buildings were reserved, There was no Chinese quarter when the Russians had the place, but many Chinese have now flocked thither. The Railway Company built large airy hospitals with every accommodation for 200 patients; and apart from these, infectious wards are situated outside of the town. The Chinese Eastern Railway, of which Tairen is the terminus, is directly connected by rail with all the Manchurian, Siberian and European Railways as well as with the Shanghai-kwan line via Inkou. There is a branch line to Port Arthur through the junction station Nankanlin, and a daily service of trains runs to the North and Port Arthur from Tairen.
The trade between the Kwantung province (principally Tairen) and Japan in 1906 amounted to £2,145,398, while the trade with China ports was respresented by a value of only £506,707. The Japanese population of the province, according to the 1906 returns, was 12,356 (exclusive of the military and government officials). Chinese numbered 403,754, and other nationalities totalled 47.
Japan's revenue from the province in the current year is estimated at yen 222,033 from taxes; yen 1,137,182 from public undertakings and state property; and yen 27,078 from miscellaneous sources, and a national treasury grant of three million yen is neces- sary to meet the contemplated expenditure (ordinary, yen 3,225,590 and extraordinary yen 1,100,703).
DIRECTORY
CHINESE IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS
R. Kurosawa, commissioner
CHINESE GUILD
Liu Tzu Heng, president
Lee Pau Chan vice-president
Ho-Kee
CORNABE, ECKFORD & Co., Merchants
F. Larkins, agent
Agencies
Indo-China S. N. Co. Ld. China Navigation Co. Ld. P. & O. S. N. Co. Ld.
Indra Line Ld.
Canadian Pacific Railway. Royal Insurance Co.
Sun Fire Insurance Co. Ld. General Accident Fire & Life
Assce. Co.
Yangtsze Insurance Association Ltd. Canton Insurance Office
Standard Life Assurance Co. Asiatic Petroleum Co.
Hongkong & Shanghai Bankg. Corpn.
FREE DISPENSARY
Dr. S. Yata, principal
H.I.J.M's. CIVIL ADMINISTRATION
T. Sato, acting chief adininistrator
HOLME, RINGER & Co.
G. Renison
Agencies
Canadian Pacific Railway Co. North China Line
Portland & Asiatic S. S Co.
Ben Line. Thomson, Leith Pacific Mail S S. Co.
Occidental & Oriental S. S. Co. Toyo Kisen Kaisha
Glen Line McGreggor Gow, London, Messageries Maritimes Co. Ocean Steamship Co., Ltd. China Mutual S. N. Co. Ltd. Lloyd's, London
South British Fire & Marine Ins. Co. Marine Insurance Co. Ltd.
Board of Underwriters, New York North China Insurance Co. Northern Assurance Co.
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society Russo-Chinese Bank
HONGANJI TEMPLE
T. Mayeda, high priest
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