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TIENTSIN-TAKU

OFFICES

Norddeutsche Versicherungs Gesellschaft (Marine)... Nordstern Lebens Versicherungs Akt. Gess., Berlin Nord-Versigerungs Gesellschaft...

North British and Mercantile Insurance Company.. North China Insurance Company, Ld..... North German Fire Insurance Company North West Insurance Co., Ld., London Northern Assurance Company (Fire and Life) Norwich Union Fire Ins. Society, Ld. (Mar. Dept.)... Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society

Ocean Accident and Guarantee Corpn. Limited Palatine Insurance Company, Limited Patriotic Assurance Company Phoenix Assurance Company

Property Insurance Company, Ld.

Providentia Allgem. Versich. Gesellschaft, Wien Prussian National Insurance Co. (Fire and Life) Rheinisch Westphalischer Lloyd

Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation.. Royal Exchange Assurance (Marine Dept.) Russian Lloyd Insurance Co...

Salamandra Insurance Company, Petrograd "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

Sietas, Plambeck & Co. Melchers & Co. Carlowitz & Co. William Forbes & Co. Wilson & Co. Siemssen & Co. Telge & Schroeter Mackenzie & Co. William Forbes & Co. Wilson & Co. Melchers & Co. Liddell Bros. & Co. 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 Upper Rhine Insurance Company, Mannheim Versigerungs Gesellschaft von 1873, Hamburg. Western Assurance Company, Toronto World Marine Insurance Company

Yangtsze Insurance Association, Limited

Mitsui Bussan Kaisha H. Bègue

H. Hunter (acting.) Siemssen & Co. William 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.