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
2 inspectors 68 sergts., and constables
局政郵清大
POST OFFICE-Imperial CHINESE
District Postmaster-A. W. Cross
District Postal Officer--E. Caretti
Soochow District comprises:—
Head Office
4 City sub-offices
3 Inland offices
25 Inland agenci s
局便郵州蘇本日大
Ta-jih-pen Soo-chow-yu-pien-chi
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL JAPANESE
Postmaster-M. Hattori
Assistant Clerk-H. Aratake
Soo KING SILK FILATURE
Chou Hon-ying, director
Minoretti
廠紗输蘇
Soo-lung-sou-chang
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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
Soo SIN & Co., Merchants
2o ★☆ Tung-woo-ta-hok-tong
SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY
President-Rev. D. L. Anderson
Professors-W. B. Nance, N. G. Gee,
R. S. Anderson, R. D. Smart, W. W.
Brockman, B. D. Lucas, L. G. Lea, H. R. Campbell
司公船輸東大
TAITO STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
WU SING SILK FILATURE
Ting Ju-ling, manager J. Berthelot, clerk
CHINKIANG
Đt Chin-king
The port of Chinkiang (or Chên-kiang-fu), which was declared open to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tientsin, is situated on the Yangtze, about 150 miles from its mouth, and at the point where the Grand Canal enters the river. The opening of the Lu-Han (Peking-Haukow) Railway has seriously reduced its importance as a distributing centre. The navigability of its waterways is still said to be "urgently needing improvement,' steam launches there taking the place of tugs.
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The history of Chinking 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.
The city lies between one of the mouths of the Grand Canal and the right bank of the Yangtze. Most of the houses are built on level ground, but the surrounding hills lend a pleasant appearance to the locality, which is considerably enhanced by the bluff scenery of the island of Ts'io-shan. When the city was abandoned by the rebel
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