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TIENTSIN-TAKU

OFFICES

Patriotic Assurance Company

Phoenix Assurance Company

Property Insurance Company, Ld.

Providentia Allgem. Versich. Gesellschaft, Wien

Prussian National Insurance Co. (Fire & Life) Rheinisch Westphalischer Lloyd

Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation.

Roval Exchange Assurance (Marine Dept.)

Russian Lloyd Insurance Co......

Salamandra Insurance Company, St. Petersburg. "Schweiz" of Zurich. Marine Insurance .

Scottish Union and National Insurance Company Sea Insurance Company

South British Fire and Mar. Ince. Co. of New Zealand South British Fire and Marine Insurance Co. (Marine) South British Insurance Co., Ld.

Standard Marine Insurance Company, Limited Standard Life Assurance Company

State Fire Insurance Company, Limited

Sun Fire Office

AGENTS

Perrin, Cooper & Co. Hatch, Carter & Co. K. Liddell & Co. Siemssen & Co. E. Gipperich & Co. Sietas, Plambeck & Co. Butterfield & Swire William Forbes & Co. Chandless, Batouieff & Co. Siemssen & Co. Fischer & Co. Carlowitz & Co. Butterfield & Swire Wilson & Co.

Arnhold, Karberg & Co. Lees & Co.

Butterfield & Swire Wilson & Co.

Arnhold, Karberg & Co. Wilson & Co.

Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance Company, Ld. Wilson & Co. Tokyo Marine Insurance Co.

Union Fire Insurance Co., Ld., of Paris Union Insurance Society of Canton, Ld. United Dutch Marine Insurance Company United Dutch Marine Insurance Company Unner Rhine Insurance Company, Mannheim Versigerungs Gesellschaft von 1873, Hainburg. Western Assurance Company, Toronto World Marine Insurance Company Yangtsze Insurance Association, Limited

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha H. Bègue

H. Hunter (acting.) Siemssen & Co.

Wm. Forbes & Co. William Forbes & Co. Stang, Wilde & Co. Faust & Co.

Perrin, Cooper & Co. Liddell Bros, & Co.

TAKU

沽大 Ta-ku

This village is situated at the mouth of the Pei-ho, on the southern side of the river about sixty-seven miles from Tientsin. The land is so flat at Taku that it is difficult for a stranger to detect the entrance to the river. There are two anchorages, an outer and inner. The former extends from the Customs Junks to three miles outside the Bar, seaward; the latter from Liang-kia-yuan on the south to the Customs Jetty, Tz'chu-lin, on the north. The village is a poor one, and possesses few shops and no buildings of interest except the forts, now demolished. The only foreign residents are the employées of the Lighter Company, the Customs, and the Pilot Corporation. A railway from the adjoining town of Tungku (two miles up the river), to Tientsin was completed in 1888.

Taku is memorable on account of the engagements that have taken place between its forts and the British and French naval forces. The first attack was made on the 20th May, 1858, by the British squadron under Sir Michael Seymour, when the forts were passed and Lord Elgin proceeded to Tientsin, where on the 26th June he signed the famous Treaty of Tientsin. The second attack, which was fatally unsuccessful, was made by the British forces in June, 1859. The third took place on the 21st August,

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