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ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

HANGCHOW-NINGPO

Rev. Monseigneur Faveau Rev. A. Cottin

Rev. M. Bouillet Rev. J. Chiapetto Rev. J. Deynier Rev. E. Galvin Rev. McArdle

Rev. P. Legrand (Huchow)

Rev. A. J. Asinelli (Kashing)

Rev. A. Brasts (Yenchow) Rev. Lobry (Kinhwa)

Rev. J. Tisserand (Chuchow)

Rev. A. Henault Rev. J. de Groeve

do. do.

Rev. J. Basso (Pinghu)

SISTERS OF CHARITY

Sisters Archenault (supériuere), M. Parada, A. Wagensperg, G. Broie. M. L. Hacard

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MOKANSHAN SUMMER RESORT ASSOCIATION

Officers and Directors 1914-15 President J. L. Hendry (Huchow) Vice-President-H. Castle (Tunglu) Treasurer-James V.Latimer(Huchow)

P. R. Bakeman

F. W. Bible

O. C. Crawford

J. W. Crofoot

F. W. Goddard J. C. Hawk W. H. Hudson R. J. McMullen C. G. McDaniel

P. F. Price

H. H. Tavlor

R. C. Wilson

房捕巡塲關州杭

POLICE (CHINESE)-Hangchow Settlement

Chief-Chinese

1 interpreter, 2 sergts., 15 constables

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Acting Postal Commissioner-E. A.

Schaumloffel

District Acct.-H. S. Kierkegaard

局便郵國帝本日大

T'a Ji-pen Ti-kuoh Yu-pien-chuk

POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL JAPANESE

Postmaster-T. Satow

Postal Clerk-S. Tsuji

司公東大 Ta-tung-kung-sze

TAITO STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY

H. Tobi, manager

NINGPO

波獰

波響 Ning-po

Ningpo is situated on the river Yung, in the province of Chekiang, in lat. 29 deg. .55 min. N., and long. 121 deg. 22 min. E. It was one of the five ports thrown open to foreigners in 1842. Foreigners had, however, visited Ningpo at an early date. Portuguese traded there in 1522; a number of them settled in the place in that and succeeding years, and there was every prospect of a rising and successful settlement soon being established. But the lawless acts of the Portuguese soon attracted the attention of the Government, and in 1542 the Governor of Chekiang ordered the settlement to be destroyed and the population to be exterminated. A large force of Chinese troops soon besieged the place, destroying it entirely, and out of a population of 1,200 Portuguese, 800 were massacred. No further attempt at trade with this port was made till towards the close of the 17th century, when the East India Company established a factory at the island of Chusan, some forty miles from Ningpo. The attempt to found a trade mart there, however, proved unsatisfactory, and the factory was abandoned after a few years' trial. The port was deserted by foreigners for many years after that. When hostilities broke out between Great Britain and China in 1839, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Ningpo, and an English garrison was stationed there for some time. In March, 1842, an attempt was made by the Chinese to re-take the city, but the British artillery repulsed them with great slaughter. Ningpo was evacuated on May 7th, and, on the proclamation of peace in the following August, the port was thrown open to foreign trade.