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FUSAN-MASAMPO–MOKPO-CHINNAMPO .

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局便郵本日大

POST OFFICE, JAPANESE

R. Shiga, director

E. Enatsuka, chief engineer of En- gineering and Telephone Sections H. Hosaka, chief clerk of Mail Section M Okabe, Accounting Section

S. Kajiyama, General Affairs Section S. Toshima, Telegraph Section

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD. (Fusan Branch)-Kotohira-cho; Telephs. 655 and 43; Tel. Ad: Mitsui

Agency

Ellerman & Bucknall S.S. Co.

MASAMPO

浦山馬

Masampo was opened to foreign trade on the 1st May, 1899. It has a native population of roughly 35,000. The climate is very mild and the harbour is also good. In summer it serves as a good sea-bathing place; the Japanese Settlement is making nowadays very great progress, and the inhabitants amount to about 5,000. Regular lines of small steamers connect the port of Fusan. Its proximity to Fusan and the superior accommodation of the latter port greatly interferes with the com- mercial expansion of Masampo. The foreign trade at this port in 1915 was of the value of 1,153,000 yen as compared with 1,128,000 yen in 1914.

MOKPO

浦木 Mok-po

Mokpo, which, like Chiunampo, was opened to foreign trade on the 1st October, 1897, in pursuance of a resolution of the Council of State, is a seaport in the province of Chulla and has an excellent harbour capable of providing anchorage accommodation for thirty or forty vessels of large tonnage. Chulla is a great rice-growing district and has the reputation of being the wealthiest province in the country, and Mokpo lies at the mouth of a river which drains nearly the whole province. Mokpo has undergone a great transformation since it was opened. In 1897 it consisted of a few native huts surrounded by paddy fields and mud flats. The foreign settlement, which comprises about 225 acres of ground, was bought up within a couple of years, and the mud flats were rapidly converted into a town, with well laid out streets, occupied by about 1,200 Japanese and a number of substantial Chinese residents. A seawall was built and a bund road over a mile in length was made.

The trade of the port in 1915 amounted to 4,526,000 yen as compared with 4,306,000 yen in 1914. There are no European firms in the port, all the business being in Japanese hands.

CHINNAMPO

浦

Chin-nam-po

This port was opened to foreign trade on the 1st October, 1997, in pursuance of a resolution passed by the Council of State. The port is situated on the north bank of the Tatung inlet, about twenty miles from its mouth, in the extreme south-west of the province of Pyeng-yang. It is some forty miles distant by water from Ping-yang, the third city in the Kingdom, with a population exceeding 40,000, and it is expected that