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HANKOW-YOCHOW

Works Office-Y. M. Lin, S. H. Y. Ho,

K. C. Ho, K. L. Tong

Agency

Suter, Hartmann & Rahtjens Com-

position Company, Ltd.,

Ltd., "Red

Hand" Brand Anti-Corrosive Paints

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LD.

W. Kobayashi, manager

K. Yano, p. p. manager

S. Ohtaki

H. Tonegawa

H. Kishi

K. ljity

T. Kilawaki

田吉 Chzh-din

YOSHIDA YOKO, General Merchant

T. Takatsuji signs per pro.

G. Kitamura

T. Kono

K. Takaya H. Sasaki S. Noumra

T. Ishiwara

S. Matsumoto

S. Miyagaki

S. Kawano

會年青教督基口漢

Hankow Ge-dao-chiao-ch'en-nei-way

995

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF

HANKOW--Tel. Ad: Flamingo; Code

C.I.M., Adams, Western Union

Hugh A. Moran, B.A., secretary

Mrs. H. A. Moran

Dean L. Kelsey, B.A.

Mrs. D. L. Kelsey

廷錫楊士博科牙

YOUNG, DR. S. D, Dentist-Teleph. No

157; Tel. Ad: Camera; Code: A. B. C. 5th Edition

Office: The Nanyang Dispensary Ltd.,

No. 22; Sin Seng Road

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. The total net value of the trade of the port for 1911 was Tls. 3,455,970 as compared with Tls. 1,941,869 for 1910, and Tls. 3,015,913 for 1909.

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 staples is rice, of which nearly a million piculs are sent out of the province to Hupeh and Kueichow in an average year. The Hunan tea sent to Hankow amounts to about six hundred thousand half-chests a year. 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 production of cotton. The 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. Digitized by Google