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HANKOW-YOCHOW

South British Insurance Co., Ld. Hankow Wharf and Godown Co., Ld. Shanghai Tug and Lighter Co., Ld.

WISSOTZKY & Co., Ld. (Society for Tea

Trade, Moscow)

P. Kracke, representative

Dodwell & Co., Ld., agents

司公限有造製器機子揚

YANGTZE ENGINEERING WORKS, LD., THE—

Head Office: Augusta Strasse (German¦ Concession); Works: Seven Miles Creek; Tel. Ad: Yangworks, Hankow; Codes: A. B. C. 5th edition, Western Union and Engineering Teleph. second edition Directors-V. K. Lee, Sung Wei Chan,

Lo Hung Chang General Manager

Wong Kwong,

M.I.N.A., M.I. MACH. E., M.I.S. INST. General Office

K. C. Lee

Tsang Fuk

Yeung Pak Un

Hsu Chung Ching

Whang Chun Fong

971

Technical Dept.-G. W. Cockburn, S.

H. Ho, Y. M. Lin, K. C. Ho

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LD.

W. Kobayashi, manager

Y. Shimidzu, sub-manager

Y. Yatsuda

K. Yamaoka

S. Yoshiwara

T. Yamanishi

R. Toyama

田吉

Chih-din

YOSHIDA YOKO, General Merchant T. Takatsuji signs per pro.

H. Yoshida

M. Kono

Y. Miyao R. Ohnishi

T. Kono

K. Takaya

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 trade centre, whose opening to foreign trade was talked of in 1906. The opening of Changsha took away much of Yochow's transit trade, but as the Hankow-Canton Railway will pass through Yochow it may hope to experience better times. While in 1908 the value of the foreign imports fell from Tls. 507,371 in 1907 to Tls. 387,392, the total net value of the trade of the port, through exceptional causes, increased from Tls. 1,354,155 to Tls.

2,943,917.

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 Yochow. 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 and Kueichow in an average year. staples is rice, of which nearly a million piculs are sent out of the province to Hupeh

about six hundred thousand half-chests a year.

The Hunan tea sent to Hankow amounts to The timber passing down past Changteh is valued officially at six million taels a year, and is probably worth more. There is also a large productioix million as a mountain districts contain large fields of coal, both anthracite and bituminous; iron also is known to exist. Sulphur, antimony, nickel, and other minerals are even now exported, and great possibilities of development are undoubtedly to be found.

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