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HANKOW —YOCHOW

司公限有造製器機子揚 YANGTZE ENGINEERING WORKS, LTD., THE -General Office: rue d'Autremer (French Concession). 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,

M.I.N.A., M.I.S.INST., M.I.MECH.E. Commercial Manager-Wong Kokshan General Office Yang Pak-Yuen,

Whang Chun Fang, Y. H. Tang Works Office-Y. M. Lin, Kwan Iu-ki, W. F. M. Woo, Ng Kah Yue, Wong Li Kwong, Min S. Zhen, G. D. Yang Agency

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

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD. -Tel. Ad:

Specie

廠器機昌義

YEE CHANG & Co., Engineering and Iron Works-31, Faucheong Road, corner

Hupeh Road, British Concession; Teleph

1419

Liong Young Koung

Tong Men-kai

會年青教督基口漢

Hankow Chitn-chiao Ch'ing-nien-hua

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF HANKOW-Tel. Ad: Flamingo; Codes:

C.I.M., Western Union

Secretaries - Arthur M. Guttery,

Wayne C. Jordan, T. K. Hu, Ed. L.

Hall, C. C. Shedd

會年青数督基昌武

Wuchang Chitu-chiao Ch'ing-wien-hui

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF

WUCHANG--51, Fu Yuen Kai, Wuchang; Tel. Ad: Wagner

Secretaries-H. M. Wagner, R.

Colson

B.

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YOCHOW

Yochow, with a population of 15,000 to 20,000, is situated in latitude 29.* 26.′ 29′′ N. and longitude 113° 11′ 6′′ 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 no- thing 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. British, American, Japanese and Chinese firms maintain regular communication with Changteli, 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; the Hankow-Canton Railway has, however, so far progressed towards completion that trains are running between Changsha and Wuchang (Hankow): the line is quite close to the City of Yochow, and the place may, in the near future, experience better times if peace

could be restored.

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, which attitude is now well maintained. The anti-foot-binding crusade has done well in Hunan, which was once the most anti-foreign province in all China. The people are intensely

The people 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 from Changteh is valued officially at six million taels a year, and is probably worth more. It is largely soft wood-merely poles. In the opinion of old residents the volume seems to be decreasing, as the rafts are, generally speaking, of smaller dimensions than