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CHUNGKING-HANGCHOW

Ecole Française-Louis-Eraste, dir.

Paul Xavier, Joseph Claudius, profs. Séminaires-Perrodin, Caluraud

* Yun-sen-kong-kouan

VICARIAT APOSTOLIQUE DU SU'TCHUEN

MERIDIONAL (SUIFU)

Evêché Chatagnon, évêque

Moutot, provicaire

de Guébriant, id.

Fayolle, P. procureur Cathédrale-Renault, curé Ecole Française-Piard Hôpital--Bénézet, aumônier ; mère Ste. Cène, supérieure; Félicie

Samuel, Longin, Anizia, Visi- tion

Séminaire Scherrier, supérieur;

Carrisse, professeur: Brotte, pro- fesseur

Probatorium-Jouve, supérieur

司公船輪清日

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA

Y. Nakagawa

PLANT, CAPT. S. C., Upper Yangtze

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE

Deputy Postmaster-H. G. C. Perry-

Ayscough

Postal assistant-A. L. Kauffmaun

Postal Officers-M. E. Summers, W.

Ortolani

Postal Officer-O. Mellows (Chengtu)

POSTE FRANÇAISE

Postmaster-E. Colin

美泰公

Kung-t'a-mee

SPENCELEY, S. A. (residence in Hankow)

Tsai Tzu Chuen, agent

Wang Shing Pai, clerk

SUN LIFE INSURANCE Co.

Mackenzie & Co., Ld., agents

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TELEGRAPH-CHINESE IMPERIAL ADMINI-

STRATION

Ling Fûh He, manager

Sun Wan-Kwei,

L. C. Sun, controller of Szechuen

Twanno Pang-Fan, clerk-in-charge

Chentu

局報電都成

Chow Pao-Chen, manager

Chên Tzu Sho, clerk-in-charge

Chungking

局報電慶重

S. P. Cheng, manager

Shu Yen Chih, clerk-in-charge

處報電署督川

Department in Viceroy's Yamen

K. Y. Whang, clerk-in-charge

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WILLIAMS, C. E., merchant

HANGCHOW

H A Háng-chau

Hangchow, the capital of the province of Chekiang, is situated 150 miles south west of Shanghai, and 127 miles south of Soochow, on the Chien-tang River, at the apex of a bay which is too shallow for the navigation of steamers. The mouth of the river is, moreover, periodically visited by a bore, or tidal wave, which further endangers the navigation. Haining is the best place for observing this famous bore, which is formed by the north-east trade wind heaping up the water of the Pacific on the China coast and causing enormous tides. Hangchow Bay is shaped like a funnel, and the mass of water rushing up, more and more concentrated as it advances, is sud- denly confronted by the current of the river. The momentary check causes the water to assume a wall-like formation; then, growing to a height of 15ft. at spring tides and gathering momentum with the immense pressure behind, forcing its volume into the comparatively narrow waterway, it tears past the sea-wall with a roar like thunder at a rate sometimes reaching 12 miles an hour. Before the Taiping rebellion Hangchow

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