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SHIMONOSEKI AND MOJI-NAGASAKI

ice Service & Honderson, Lt. Patischer Lloyd

China Insurance Co., Ltd. Inion & Rock Insurance Co., Ld. facturers Life Ins. Co., of Canada

TEL-Shimonosekil'wayStation

OSHINJO, (Mercantile Agency) anch; Higashi Hon-machi Ni- Teleph. No. 237; Head Office;

hara, manager

631

Siemens-SchUCKERT DENKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Electrical Engineers and Con- tractors-19, Nishi Hon-machi; Tel. Ad: Siemens Moji; Telephone 144 (L.D.)

G. Ihara, elec. engr., manager STANDARD On Co.-M. Aoki, manager

TAIMO YOKO, Coal, Import, Export and General Commission Merchants, Owners s.s."Norrona"; Tel. Ad: Taimoyoko

S. Orita, signs per pro.

Vacuum Oil Co., Moji

R. Holmes, manager

HAKATA

IN PETROLEUM Co, LD.- 212, Tel. Ad: Petrosam, Teleph, 205 Westcott, manager

Brown

Malcolm

Oil Refinery, Saitozaki

A. J. Slater

A. Robertson, manager O. B. Males

NAGASAKI

ki is a city of great antiquity, and in the early days of European in- ith the Far East was the most important seat of the foreign trade with is admirably situated on the south-western coast of the Island of Kiushiu. ply interest attaches to the neighbourhood as the scene of the extinction of y in the empire and the extermination of the professors of that religion It the entrance to the harbour lies the celebrated island of Pappenberg, sands of Christians are said to have been thrown over the high cliff rather ough the form of trampling on the Cross, Not far from Nagasaki is also the fogi, where 37,000 Christians suffered death in defending themselves forces sent to subdue them. When the Christian religion was crushed reigners expelled, to the Dutch alone was extended the privilege of h Japan, and they were confined to a small plot of ground at Nagasaki ima. By the Treaty of 1858 Nagasaki was one of the ports opened to le on the 1st July in the following year.

ering the harbour of Nagasaki no stranger can fail to be struck with the ituation of the town and the beautiful panorama of hilly scenery opened to he harbour is a land-locked inlet deeply indented with small bays, about long with a width varying from half-a-mile to a mile. A reclamation commenced in October, 1897, and completed in January 1905; 147 acres were and retaining walls measuring nearly five miles in length have been built what were formerly the foreign concessions at Deshima and Megasaki. sly the harbour has been deepened. The cost of the work was four The town is on the eastern side of the harbour, and is about long by about three-quarters of a mile in extreme width. The rter adjoins the town on the south side. The chief mercantile houses d on the bund facing the harbour, behind which are a few streets allel with it, and there are a number of private residences on the "here are English Protestant and Roman Catholic churches, two clubs nd International) and a Masonic Lodge. There are several hotels, of largest are the Hotel de France, the Cliff House, the Hotel du the Belle Vue Hotel. The Mitsu Bishi Company own three docks. , the largest of which has a length of 714 feet on the keel blocks th of water at ordinary spring tides of 34ft. 6in. As a shipbuilding

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