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FUSAN

numbers 26,586 and there are about 5,000 more resident inland in the vicinity of the port. The Korea population is about 24,000. 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. i

As a trading centre Fusan has become the first port of the peninsula, the value of the trade in 1914 being 28,703,000 yen (27,400,000 yen in 1914), imports representing 16,909, 00 yen and exports 11,794,000 yen. There are no European firms in the port and business is carried on principally by the Japanese.

DIRECTORY

BANK OF CHOSEN-44, Daicho Machi, It-

chome; Tel. Ad: Chogin

J. Tsumura, manager,

G. Katayama, p.p. manager

HOLME, RINGER & Co., Import, Export and Commission Merchants - Telephs. 545 and 309; Tel. Ad: Ringer

S. A. Ringer (Nagasaki)

F. E. E. Ringer

do.

H. Yamano, in charge

M. Nakamura

Y. Tanaka

W. Takumi

S. Honda

Agencies

Banking

Chartered Bank of India, Australia

and China

Hongkong and Shanghai Banking

Corporation

Shipping

Asiatic Steam Navigation Co., Ltd. American Asiatic Steamship Co. American & Oriental Line

Barber & Co.'s Line of Steamers Ben Line of Steamers

British India Steam Nav. Co., Ltd. Canadian Pacific Railway Co.

Chargeurs Reunis (French S.S. Co.) China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ltd. China Navigation Co., Ltd. Cie. des Messageries Maritimes Eastern & Australian S.S. Co., Ltd. East Asiatic Co., Ltd. Mogul Line of Steamers Ocean Steamship Co., Ltd. Peninsular & Oriental S. N. Co. Prince Line, Ltd.

Royal Mail Steain Packet Co. Russian East Asiatic Co., Ltd. Shire Line of Steamers

Swedish East Asiatic Co., Ltd. Toyo Kisen Kaisha

John Warrack & Co.'s Steamers

Insurance

Board of Underwriters of New York Cassa Navale & d'Assicuraz. of Genova Lloyds, London

London Salvage Association

New Zealand Insurance Co., Ltd. Norwich Union Fire Ince. Society, Ltd. North British & Mercantile Insurance

Co., Ltd.

North China Insurance Co., Ltd.

Royal Exchange AssuranceCorporation South British Fire & Mar. Ins. Co., Ltd. Sun Insurance Co.

The Sea Insurance Co., Ltd.

Union Ince. Society of Canton, Ltd. Western Assurance Co.

Yangtsze Insurance Association

General

International Sleeping Car Co.

Chemulpo Branch-Jurokuto Naido;

Teleph. 156

T. Nakamoto, representative

鮮朝大

CUSTOMS SERVICE IN FUSAN

K. Yano, director

M. Otani, inspector and controller (chief of inspection and revenue sections)

T. Ichikawa, appraiser (chief of ex-

amination section)

R. Okamoto, chief of Mokpo Branch

Customs

H. Noda, chief of Masampo Branch

Customs

K. Kaizu, chief of Taiku Detached

Customs