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barded by the French under Admiral Léspes, when the forts above the town were reduced to ruins, and the place captured. It was then garrisoned by the French, who held it until after the Treaty of Peace had been signed at Tientsin in June, 1885. The place was occupied by the Japanese on the 3rd June, 1895.

The trade returns for 1911 showed that the value of the trade of these two ports amounted to Yen 52,013,013, of which Yen 31,812,391 was with Japan.

At Keelung a long delayed harbour improvement scheme has been commenced, the estimated total cost of the undertaking being Yen 6,500,000. The widening and deepening of the fairway for steamers in the inner harbour has been completed. The steamer anchorage in this harbour now has a uniform depth of at least 30 feet and the harbour has been widened to 480 feet in its narrowest part. A slipway is at Keelung for vessels of 400 tons, but a project is on foot to enlarge it to accommodate vessels up to 1,000 tons. Designs for another slipway are under consideration by the naval authorities. During 1900 a lighthouse was completed on Pak-sa Point, a low headland on the west coast, some 20 miles south-west of Tamsui, and one has been erected on Agincourt Island. A stone quay in connection with the railway is nearly completed, alongside of which steamers of the 6,000 tons class can now be berthed. The depth of water alongside of same is 28-30 feet. From 1911 on until 1920, the Government intends extending the harbour, and when completed it will be possible to accommodate at the quay about 10 steamers each of 10,000 tons capacity, and admit 6 steamers below this tonnage at the buoys.

During the tea season in 1912, the largest Pacific liners called for tea.

The railway line between Tamsui and Daitotei (Twatutia) was opened on August, 25th, 1901, and has been of great benefit to the people of the district. The actual cost of construction was insignificant, the line having been laid upon a practically level sur- face for nearly the whole of its route. Keelung is the northern terminus of the trans- Formosan Government Railway; the total length of this line to Takow, on the south- west coast, is 251 miles. The capital, called by the Chinese Taipeh, is now, under the Japanese nomenclature, called Taihoku. Twatutia will be found in the Japanese postal guide as Daitotei. It is here, on the outskirts of Taihoku, and on the Tamsui River which flows past Daitotei, that the foreign merchants have their residential and business quarters. At the mouth of the Tamsui River lies the town of Hobé, in Japanese Kobi, but now most usually called Tamsui to avoid confusion with Kobe in Japan proper,

TAIHOKU (TAIPEH) AND DAITOTEI

(TWATUTIA) DIRECTORY

行銀灣台社會式

BANK OF TAIWAN, LTD. (Taiwan Ginko); Head Office: Taihoku (Taipeh). Bran- ches: Kobe, Osaka, Tokyo, Tainan, Taichu, Keelung, Takow, Kagi, Tamsui, Hongkong, Shanghai, Amoy, Swatow, Foochow, Canton, etc. Telegraphic Ad- dress: Taigin

President-K. Yagiu Vice-President-S. Nakagawa Directors-I. Kajiwara, M. Ninomiya,

I. Sada

Auditors-K. Okura, K. Otani, J.

Katsura, T. Shimosaka Manager-T. Ikeda

BL Fu Ho-kee

Born & Co., Merchants

W. S. Orr (London)

E. Thomas

F. G. Kell

W. R. Harvey, assistant R. B. Orr

Agencies

Mercantile Bank of India, Limited Lloyd's

China Traders' Insurance Co., Ld. Royal Insurance Company

Dodwell & Co., Ld., "Suez" steamers Eastern & Australian S. S. Co., Ld. The Bank Line, Limited Venesta, Limited

China Mutual Life Insurance, Ld. London Salvage Assocn.

Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Co.

COLBURN HOHMEYER COY., THE A., Daitotei,

Tea Merchants

Head Office-Philadelphia, U. S. A.

William Hohmeyer, manager

C. S. Averill, signs per pro.

Dic John Colin ge