WONSANFUSAN
DIRECTORY
BANK OF CHOSEN-214, Hon-machi It-
chome; Tel. Ad: Chogin
T. Kamejima, manager Y. Imai, act. manager
BILBROUGH, C. F. STANHOPE, Planter, etc.-
Chosenholme, Wonsan, Korea
Victoria Island, Burma
JAPANESE Post Office
Wakamori Yoshiki, postmaster,
T. Tsuboi, engineer
and
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M. Kojima, T. Hayashi, C. Ishidoya,
S. Ochiai, clerks
部漕囘田吉
YOSHIDA KAISOBU, Ship-Chandler, Broker,
Stevedore-Higashimachi, Gensan; Tel. Ad: Yoshida
K. Takata, manager
Agent
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
Chosen Yusen Kaisha
FUSAN
山釜 Fu-san
Fusan, or Pusan, as it is called by the native population, is the chief port of Kiung-sang-do, the south-eastern province of Chosen, and lies in lat. 35 deg. 6 min. 6 sec. N. and long 129 deg. 3 min. 2 sec. E. It was opened to Japanese trade in 1876 and to Western nations in 1883. The native town consists of some 550 houses with a population of about 5,000 inhabitants. The Japanese settlement is situated a little distance from the native town, opposite the island of Cholyongdo (Deer Island). It is under the control of the Prefect appointed by the Government-General of Chosen. The Japanese population in Fusan numbers about 15,000, and there are about 3,500 more resident inland in the vicinity of the port. The Seoul-Fusan Railway and a daily service of steamers to Japan have combined to make Fusan a great centre of activity, and the volume of trade passing through the port has greatly increased. In connection with the railway a big scheme of harbour reclamation is being carried out, and this will provide building sites suitable for godowns, which are now sadly deficient. Many public improvements have been carried out in recent years, including the erection of a new settlement, the construction of water-works, the instal lation of electric light, and the making of good roads in the neighbourhood of the foreign quarter. Fusan was connected with Japan by a submarine telegraph cable in November, 1883.
As a trading centre Fusan is the second port of the peninsula, the value of the trade of the port being about one million and a half pounds sterling, imports repre- senting three-fifths of the amount. There are no European firms in the port, and business is carried on principally by the Japanese,
DIRECTORY
BANK OF CHOSEN-5, Hon-machi Sanehome,
Tel. Ad ; Chogin
H. Abe, manager,
K. Yamanouchi, acting manager
HOLME, RINGER & Co., Import, Export and Commission Merchants — Tel. Ad:
Ringer; Teleph. 545
S. A. Ringer (Nagasaki)
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