Directory_and_Chronicle_1920 — Page 687

Directories & Chronicles 香港指南 All

Yaung-chang

PEKING-TIENTSIN

TALATI BROS., Furniture Dealers-Hata- men Street; Teleph. 1068, East; Tel. Ad: Talati

B. B. Talati

T. B. Talati

店飯報電

C. B. Dumasia

J. M. Talati

Tien-pao fan-tien

TELEGRAPH HOTEL-Tel. Ad: Rizzo

M. Rizzo, proprietor

Tung-chi-lung

THOS. COOK & SON, Tourist and Excursion

Agents, Foreign Bankers-Chinese East- ern Ry. Compound; Tel. Ad: Coupon

R. A. Baker, agent

TIENTSIN PRESS, LTD., Stationers,_ _Book- binders, etc.-rue Marco Polo; Teleph. 1832 East; Tel. Ad: Press

L. Phillips, manager

TIENTSIN TOBACCO Co.-Legation Street;

Teleph. 1091

TSING HUA COLLEGE-Tsing Hua Yuan; Teleph. 85, Hsi Yuen; Tel. Ad: Bureduć

Chang-Yu-Chuan, LL.D., president

Chao Guo Tsai, M.A., vice-pres.

利烏 U-li-man

ULLMANN & Co., J., Jewellers, Diamond Merchants, Watchmakers Legation

Street West, Regine's Buildings; Teleph, 1471; Tel. Ad: Ullmann

R. Dreyfus, manager

M. Haguenauer

619

Vickers Limited, Builders of all types of naval and merchant vessels and machinery. Ordnance and armour plate manufacturers. Aircraft. Manufacturers of all descriptions of electrical plant and equipments, Diesel engines, machine tools, motor vehicles, etc., etc.- Head Office: Vickers House, Broadway, West- minster, London, S. W. I. Tsung-wen- men-nei-to-t'on mao-chia-wan; Teleph.

894; Tel. Ad: Donaldson

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H. Beaumont Donaldson, rep. for

China

F. W. Allonby, elec. engineer

行銀金正濱橫

Heng Pin Cheng Chin Yin Hang

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.--Legation

Street; Tel. Ad: Specie

K. nuki, manager

J. Tanabe, signs p. p.

H. Kamiyama S. Kitagawa

R. Tsuruda

T. Kikuchi Y. Motomura O. Hanasaki

N. Yabe

T. Isoda E. Ishihara T. Oshi

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION- Hatamen Street; Teleph. E. 954; Tel. Ad: Nassau; Codes used: Mission and Western Union

R. R. Gailey, general secretary

(on leave)

D. W. Edwards, actg. do. Secretaries-J. S. Burgess, Chang Pei

Chih, Fei Chi Hao, W. F. Yuan, J.. L. Childs, S. D. Gamble, R. H. Ritters, K. H. Hsu, P. C. Hsu, H. L. Liu, R. J Forbes, L. M. Sears, O. R. Hooley, J. Milne, L. M. Mead, A. Cornwell, S. Phraner

TIENTSIN

津天 Tien-tsin

Tientsin is situated at the junction of the Yun Ho or Hwae River better known as the Grand Canal, with the Pei-lio in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 3 min. 56sec. E. It is distant from Peking by road about 80 miles, but the bulk of the enormous traffic between the two cities is now by the railway, which was opened in 1897, and the line doubled in November, 1898. Tientsin was formerly a place of no importance; till the end of the Ming dynasty (1644 A.D.) it was only a second rate military station, but at the northern terminus of the Grand Canal it gradually assumed commercial importance, and by the end of the seventeenth century had become a great distributing centre. The navigability of the Pei-ho for sea-going junks ceases at Tientsin, and this made it the emporium for the very large-

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