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MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI

These two towns are situated one on each side of Shimonoseki Straits, the western entrance of the Inland Sea-the former on the north and the latter on the south side. The interests of both towns, so far as shipping is concerned, are identical. Shimonoseki is under the jurisdiction of Yamaguchi, 51 miles away, and Moji under that of Fukuoka, 47 miles away. The foreign merchants have their offices on the side that suits their own convenience, but the principal Japanese banks and shipping offices are at Moji. There is a fairly strong tidal current through the Straits, but the anchorage, which is at Moji, is only affected by an eddy, and good holding ground is general. Steamers.entering from the West can get pilots at Rokuren Light," where boats have to stop in any case for medical inspection and harbour- master's instructions. From the eastward this inspection takes place at Hezaki Light. Means of transport are good. Liners run regularly to all foreign ordinary ports of call; and while from Shimonoseki the Sanyo Railway taps the North, from Moji the Kiushiu Railway taps the South of Japan. Excellent foreign accommodation can be had at the Shimonoseki Station Hotel, belonging to the Imperial Railway Bureau. This Railway has also two large ferry boats plying between Moji and the Shimonoseki Station, while a ten-minute ferry plies between the usual landing places at Moji and Shimonoseki. Both towns have municipal waterworks, are lit by electricity, and are connected by telephone with the principal towns, from Kagoshima and Nagasaki in the South, to Tokyo in the North East. Imports at Moji for 1914 amounted to Yen 32,274,349, and exports to Yen 19,965,938— less in each case than the figures for the previous year. Imports consist prin- cipally of machinery, iron ore, sugar, raw cotton, and flour; and exports of coal, cotton yarn, and sugar. The coal exported to foreign countries exclusive of that sup- plied for bunkers from Moji in 1914 amounted to 1,008,867 tons, valued at Yen 6,501,516. At Shimonoseki the imports were valued at Yen" 1,018,703 and the exports at Yen 1,748,566; the Korean trade returns of the two ports, which are not included in the foregoing figures, show imports valued at Yen 4,889,110 and exports valued at Yen 9,596,884. The population of Shimonoseki at the end of 1914 was 70,447 and 59 foreigners, and of Moji 74,520 and 74 foreigners. It should be specially noted that photographing and sketching are forbidden within a radius of ten miles round Shimo- noseki and Moji on land and sea. The law in this respect is strictly enforced and ignorance is not accepted as an excuse.

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BIRNIE, LEONARD, Steamship Agent, Char- tering, Insurance, Coal, Surveying, Cem- ent Charcoal, Graphite, and Fire Bricks -Higashi Hon Machi; P.O. Box 16; Tel. Ad: Leonard, Moji; Code A. B. C. 5th Edition

Agency

The American Asiatic S. S. Co. The Fulton Manufacturing Co., U.S.

Browne & Co., Merchants-3,338 Kiu

Moji; Teleph. 260

J. R. Gibson, signs per pro.

Agencies

Apcar Line of Steamers

Austrian Lloyd Steam Navigation Co. British India Steam Nav. Cv., Ld. North China Insurance Company, Ld. Yangtsze Insurance Asstn., Limited Sun Fire Office

P. & O. Steam Navigation Company Java-China-Japan Line of Steamers British Dominions Gen. Insce. Co. Ld. C. Hoare & Co., Bankers, London Cunard Steamship Co., Ld.

Russian Volunteer Fleet