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FUSAN-MASAMPO-MOKPO-CHINNAMPO

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局便郵本日大

POST OFFICE, JAPANESE

K. Kanda, director

H. Inatsuka, chief engineer of En- gineering and Telephone Sections M.Kumibashi, chief clerk of Mail Sec. K. Watanabe, Accounting Section

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

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, LTD. (Fusan Branch-Kotohira-cho; Telephs. 665 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, and the Japanese inhabitants number approximately 3,000. The climate is very mild. The harbour is good and in summer it serves as an excellent sea-bathing place. The Masampo branch of the Seoul-Fusan railway besides several lines of small steamers connect with the port of Fusan, and the superior accommodation of the latter port greatly interferes with the commercial expansion of Masampo. The foreign trade at Masampo in 1916 was yen 1,242,000 as compared with yen 1,153,000

in 1915.

MOKPO

浦木 Mok-po

Mokpo, which, like Chinnampo, 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 Cholla and has an excellent harbour capable of providing anchorage accommodation for thirty or forty vessels of large tonnage. Cholla 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. Mok po 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. At the end of 1917 the houses numbered 3,575 and the population exceeded 17,900, including 98 Chinese and 19 Europeans. A seawall has been built and a bund road over a mile in length has been made.

The trade of the port in 1916 amounted to 4,901,000 yen as compared with 4,526,000 yen in 1915.

CHINNAMPO

浦南電 Chin-nam-po

This port was opened to foreign trade on the 1st October, 1997, in pursuance o a resolution passed by the Council of State. The port is situated on the north bank of the Taitong 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 peninsula, with a population exceeding 40,000, and it is a place of

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