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KOBE-HYOGO-MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI

Palatine Insurance Co., Ld.

OFFICES

Phoenix Fire Assurance Company, of London....... Providence Washington Insurance Co., NewYork......

Queen Insurance Co., Ld. Queensland Insurance Co., Ld.,

AGENTS

Land & Cox

China & Japan Trading Co. Dodwell & Co., Ld.

W. M. Strachan & Co. Sale & Frazar, Ld.

Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation (Marine)...... Cornes & Co.

Royal Insurance Company

South British Insurance Co...... Sea Insurance Co., Ltd.

St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. Standard Life Assurance Co.

Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld. Sun Insurance Office, London (Fire) Sun Life Assce. Co. of Canada.. Underwriting Association, London Union Insurance Society of Canton

Union Marine Insurance Company, Limited

United Dutch Insce. (Marine)

United States Lloyd's of New York

Yorkshire Insurance Co.

Western Assurance Company

Yorkshire Insurance Co., Ltd.

Yangtsze Ince. Assn. (Marine)

Mollison & Co., and Jardine,

Matheson & Co., Ld. J. M. McDonald & Co. W. M. Strachan & Co.

Dodwell & Co., Ld.

Dodwell & Co., Ld.

Findlay, Richardson & Co. China and Japan Trading Co Cornes & Co.

Cornes & Co.

Samuel Samuel & Co., Ld. Findlay, Richardson & Co. Cornes & Co.

Samuel Samuel & Co., Ld. Findlay, Richardson & Co. Sale & Frazar Dodwell & Co., Ld.

J. D. Thomson

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 1917 amounted to Yen 39,917,043, and exports to Yen 42,486,082- substantial increases on the figures for the previous year. The popula tion of Shimonoseki at

at the end of 1915 was 72,041 and 76 foreigners, and of Moji 74,811 and 133 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.