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KOBE-HYOGO-MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI

INSURANCE OFFICES. -- Continued

OFFICES

AGENTS

Union Internationale Cie. d'Assce., Anvers (Marine)....... – C. Illies & Co. Union Marine Insurance Company, Limited United Dutch Insce. (Marine)

Findlay, Richardson & Co. Cornes & Co.

United Kingdom Mutual S. S. Assurance Assn., Ld.... Berigny & Co.

United Swiss Marine Insurance Co.

Western Assurance Co,

Western Assurance Company

World Marine Insurance ('o.

Yorkshire Insce. Company....

Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ld. Yorkshire Insurance Co. Yangtze Insurance Association.

Simon, Evers & Co.

A. Cameron & Co., Ld.

Findlay, Richardson & Co., Ld. Berigny & Co.

Berigny & Co.

Dodwell & Co., Ld.

Sub-Agts.-Ed.L.van Nierop & Co A. Drewell & Co.

J. W. Thompson, agent

MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI

These two towns are situated one on each side of Shimonoseki Straits, the western entrance of the Inland Sea-the former on the north and the latter on the south side. The interests of both towns, 80 far as shipping is concerned, are identical. Shimonoseki is under the jurisdiction of Yamaguchi, 51 miles away, and Moji under that of Fukuoka, 47 miles away. The foreign merchants have their offices on the side that suits their own convenience, but the principal Japanese banks and shipping offices are at Moji. There is a fairly strong tidal current through the Straits, but the anchorage, which is at Moji, is only affected by an eddy, and good holding ground is general. Steamers entering from the West can get pilots at Rokuran Light, where boats have to stop in any case for medical inspection and harbour- master's instructions. From the eastward this inspection takes place at Hezaki Light. Means of transport are good. Liners l'un regularly to all foreign ordinary ports of call and while from Shimonoseki the Sanyo Railway taps the North, from Moji the Kiushiu Railway taps the South of Japan. Excellent foreign accommodation can be had at the Shimonoseki Station Hotel, belonging to the Imperial Railway Bureau. This Railway has also two large ferry boats plying between Moji and the Shimonoseki Station, while a ten-minute ferry plies between the usual landing places at Moji and Shimonoseki. Waterworks are completed for Shimonoseki and are in course of construction at Moji. Both places are lit by electricity and are connected by telephone with the principal towns, from Kagoshima and Nagasaki in the South, to Tokyo in the North East. Imports at Moji for 1910 amounted to Y18,703,121, and exports to Y15,465,414. Imports consist principally of machinery, iron ore, sugar, raw cotton, and flour and exports of coal, cotton yarn, and rice. The coal exported to foreign countries exclusive of that supplied for bunkers from Moji in 1910 amounted to 874,238 tons. At Shimonoseki the imports were valued at Y1,891,427 and the exports at Y8,403,002; the Korean trade returns, which are not included in the foregoing figures, show imports valued at Y1,416,324 and exports valued at Y6,011,528. The population of Shimonoseki at the end of 1910 was 61,853 and 32 foreigners, and of Moji 62, 29 and 24 foreigners. It should be specially noted that photographing and sketching are forbidden within a radius of ten miles round Shimonoseki and Moji on land and sea. The law in this respect is strictly enforced and ignorance is not accepted as an excuse.