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廠幣造昌武

WUCHANG MINT

HANKOW--YOCHOW

Ts'ai Kang, managing director

司公限有造製器機子揚 YANGTZE ENGINEERING Works, Ltd., THE -General Office: Corner of rue de Hanoi and rue d'Autremer (French Con- cession). Works: Seven Mile Creek; Teleph. 170; Tel. Ad: Yangworks; Codes used: A.B.C. 5th Edition, Western Union, Engineering 2nd Edition and Bentley's Complete Phrase Code

Directors--V. K. Lee, Li Ching Tien,

K. C. Yeh

General Manager Wong Kwong,

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M.I.N.A., M.I.S.INST., M.I MECH.E.

General Office - Yang Pak-Yuen,

Whang Chun Fang, Y. H. Tang H. Y. Sze, manager

C. F. Garry, agent

T. A. Kovalsky

Works Office-G. W.Cockburn, M.I.M.E. (Works Supt.), K. L. Tang. K. Y. Ng. Technical Department--Y. M. Lin,

Kwan Iu Ki, etc.

Agency

The Red Hand Composition, Ltd. (London), "Red Hand" Brand Anti- Corrosive Paints

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.-Tel. Ad:

Specie

Y. Suitsu, manager

C Nakai, p.p. manager

H. Tonegawa I. Hirai

K. Ijity

S. Nakagawa

K. Kitawaki

M. Okamoto

T. Kojima

M. Irie

廠噐機昌義

YEE CHANG & Co., General Engineering Works and Foundry-31, Faucheong

Road, corner Hupeh Road, British Con- cession

Y. K. Liang, manager

會年青教督基口漢

Hankow Chitn-chiao Ch'ing-nien-hui

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF

HANKOW-Tel. Ad: Flamingo; Codes:

C.I.M., Western Union

Arthur M. Guttery, general secretary

Wayne C. Jordan, student secretary

Ph. de Vargas, educational

Ed. L. Hall, business

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Roy L. Creighton, building supt.

會年青敎督基昌武

Wuchang Chitu-chiao Ching-nien-hui

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WUCHANG--51, Fu Yuen Kai, Wuchang; Tel. Ad: Jordan

Wayne C. Jordan, secretary

YOCHOW

Yochow, with a population of 15,000 to 20,000, is situated in latitude 29° 23′ N., and longitude 113° 8' E. (Greenwich), at the outlet of the Tungting Lake. Past it ebbs and flows practically the whole of the trade of Hunan, which, however, adds nothing to the prosperity of the place, as it simply passes by after having paid its inward and outward taxes. The city is the gateway of the province and nothing more. Efforts are being made by British and Japanese firms to maintain regular communication with Changteh, the trade centre, whose opening to foreign trade was talked of in 1906. The opening of Changsha took away much of Yochow's transit trade, but as the Hankow- Canton Railway will pass through Yochow it may hope to experience better times.

The province of Hunan used to be to foreign commerce what Tibet has been to the explorer-a Forbidden Land-and it is only a few years ago that foreigners were stoned out of Yochow. In 1904, the people were described as showing a "friendly attitude" to all foreigners. The anti-foot-binding crusade has done well in Hunan, which was once the most anti-foreign province in all China. They are intensely patriotic, but their patriotism is rather for Hunan than for the Empire at large.

The province is rich in many forms of wealth, though the inhabitants say it consists of "three parts mountain, six water, and one arable soil." One of the main staples is rice, of which nearly a million piculs are sent out of the province to Hupeh and Kueichow in an average year. The Hunan tea sent to Hankow amounts to about six hundred thousand half-chests a year. The timber passing down past Changtch is valued officially at six inillion taels a year, and is probably worth more.