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CHENGKING-HANGCHOW

Chen-iuen-t`ang

VICARIAT APOSTOLIQUE DU SU'TCHUEN

ORIENTAL (CHUNGKING)

Evêché Chouvellon, évêque

Lorain, provicaire

Caron, procureur Cathédrale-Pons, curé Hôpital-Derouin (aumônier); Gu- illemet (médecin); Emérentienne (supérieure); Lorenza, Felix, Fran- çoise, Concorde, Camille, Berthe, Césaire, Taddée, (sœurs hospital ières)

Ecole Française-Alexis, directeur;

Amateur, Anicet, professeurs

Séminaires-Dangy, Pitiot, Poitout,

Bourgeois, Palafre

Imprimerie-Gourdon, Lamonuerie

堂修聖

Shen-sieou-t'ang

VICARIAT APOSTOLIQUE DU SU'TCHUEN

OCCIDENTAL (CHENTU)

Evêché-Dunand, évêque

Pontviane, prò vicaire

Couderc, procureur

Cathédrale Rouchouse, curé Hôpital -- Chrysostome, Zaccharie, Transfiguration, Blaise, Celine, Misericordia, sœurs hospitalières

Ecole Française --Louis-Eraste, dir.

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

館公生永

A 4* Yun-sen-kong-kouan VICARIAT APOSTOLIQUE DU SU'TCHUEN

MERIDIONAL(Suifu) Tel,Ad: Adexteros Evêché-Chatagnon, évêque vicaire apostolique

P. Fayolle, evêque coadjuteur

Moutot, provicaire

Puech, B. procureur

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Cathédrale-Garrel curé Hôpital--Bénézet, aumônier; mère

Félicie, supérieure; Gabriel, Sa- muel, Longin, Anizia, Visition, Thècle

Séminaire Scherrier, supérieur;

Brotte, Boissière, professeurs Probatorium--Tarrisse, supérieur

司公船輪清日

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA

Y. Nakagawa

PLANT, CAPT. S. C., Upper Yangtze

POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE

Acting Deputy Postmaster—J. A. Green-

field

美泰公

A Kung-t'a-mee

SPENCELEY, S. A. (residence in Hankow)

Tsai Tzu Chuen, agent

SUN LIFE INSURANCE CO.

Mackenzie & Co., Ld, agents

THE DR. WILLIAMS MEDICINE CO.

J. B. Pillow, local manager

TELEGRAPH, ADMINISTRATION,

IMPERIAL

Ling Fûh He, manager

CHINESE

1. C. Sun, controller of Szechuen Twano Pang-Fan, clerk-in-charge

CHENGTU

DISTRICT POSTMASTER W. W. Ritchie

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Do. ACCOUNTANT P. J. Keating ASST, POSTAL OFFICER-E. A. L. Chaudoin

HANGCHOW g t Hàng-chau HH tr

Hangehow, the capital of the province of Chekiang, is situated 120 miles south west of Shanghai, and 110 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 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 shared with Soochow the reputation of being one of the finest cities in the Empire on account of its wealth and splendour, but it was almost destroyed by the rebels. It has since rapidly recovered and is once more populous and flourishing, though it

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