Directory_and_Chronicle_1918 — Page 755

HUNCHUN—ANTUNG

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in 1915 and Hk. Tls. 805,637 in 1914. The town (earthen walled) has a population of about 5,000, of which 113 are Japanese and 142 Koreans. The principal items of export are grain (millet, kaoliang), beans, bean-cake, bean-oil, medicines, ginseng, and timber, and of import, cotton goods, kerosene oil, and matches.

With better roads and improved means of communication the trade of these districts will no doubt expand considerably.

CONSULATES

JAPAN

DIRECTORY

Acting Consul General-Y. Suzuki

(at Lungchingtsun)

Vice-Consul---H. Sugino (at Hunchun) Assistant-S. Arai (at Hunchun)

Police Inspector-K. Tokuyama (at

Hunchun)

Postal Clerk-S. Oda (at Hunchun)

M. Sunaga, interpreter

RUSSIA

Vice-Consul-V. Nadarov (at Yenchi)

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner K. H. von Lindholm.

(Hunchun and Lungchingtsun) Assistants-K. Nordström, Wong

Tsoo-bah

Examiner--A. Zanetti

Tidewaiter--H. A. Bach, A.

Irschenko (Changlingtzu Barrier)

A.

ANTUNG

東安 An-tung

The treaty port of Antung was opened to international trade by the Commercial Treaty between the United States and China in 1903, but, owing to the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese war, it was not till the Spring of the year 1907 that the Chinese Maritime Customs was established here. Antung is situated on the right or Chinese bank of the Yalu River, 30 miles from its mouth. The Chinese native town has a population of some 40,000 during the winter, which is swelled to perhaps twice that number during the busy months when the port is open. The floating Chinese population are chiefly emigrants from Shantung. There is also a Japanese population of some 5,000 occupying a settlement with an area of about a square mile, which is surrounded by a ram- part and a moat to keep out the summer floods, and is laid with good roads. Most of the Japanese carry on business in a small way, and very little is done in their settle- ment. The river is closed to navigation by ice from about the end of November to the end of March. The staple exports of Antung are timber, wild raw silk, wild silk cocoons, beancake and bean products; flour and oil are largely imported. The Yalu battlefield is some 10 miles further up the river and a splendid panorama of the surrounding country, embracing a fine stretch of the Yalu, may be obtained from the summit of Tiger Hill, which was the position occupied by the Russians before the battle. Wulungpei, fourteen miles distant from Antung, is a favourite resort on account of its hot springs. Antung is connected by railway with Mukden. The splendid steel bridge, 3,097 feet long and consisting of 12 spans, including a swivel-span, over the Yalu, from Antung to New Wiju (on the Korean side), connecting the South Manchuria Railway with the Chosen (Korean) Railways, was opened to traffic on 1st November, 1911, having taken three- summers to erect, no work being possible during the winter. Through express trains run thrice weekly between Mukden and Seoul connecting with the Trans-Siberian Railway. The river at Antung is navigable for steamers drawing 12 feet of water when the tides are favourable, but the channel is a constantly shifting one and erosion and silting often interfere seriously with navigation. There are several small Japanese steamers