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PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINGWANGTAO-NEWCHWANG

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As a seaside health resort Chinwangtao is almost without rival in China. It is easily accessible, has a dry and bracing climate, offers safe bathing from a sandy beach and is situated amidst magnificent scenery, while a hotel under experienced manage- ment and numerous summer bungalows afford the visitor every comfort. The great increase of trade year by year has induced the Chinese Maritime Customs to erect a fine Customs house at Chinwangtao, with a deputy commissioner in charge, and to open a Hai Kwan Bank for the convenience of local consignees. The total value of the trade for 1918, was Hk. Tls. 12,234,400 as compared with Hk. Tls. 10,355,729 in 1917, Hk. Tls. 9,429,763 in 1916 and Hk. Tls. 10,609,942 in 1915. The total number of steamers entered and cleared during 1918 was 1,542 as compared with 1,215 in 1917, 1,024 in 1916 and 890 in 1915. Chingwangtao was selected on account of its natural geographical advantages as one of the ports of embarkation for coolies emigrating to South Africa, and during 1904 an extensive depôt was established for the accom- modation of five or six thousand men.

DIRECTORY

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ld.)-Tel. Ad: Swire

(Agent in residence during the Winter

season only); Address: Tientsin

Agencies

China Navigation Co., Ld.

Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.

China Mutual S. N. Co., Ld.

關海島王秦

Hai-kwan

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS

Commissioner-F. W. Maze (stationed

at Tientsin)

Dep. Commr.-E. G. Lebas

Chinese Assistant-Lo Ch'i-ming

Asst. Tidesurveyor-T. J. Broderick

Examiner-H. J. Harper Tidewaiters-C. S. Saddler,

Perovich, W. G. E. Froud

M.

FORBES & CO., WILLIAM-Tel, Ad: Rinehee

Chinwangtao

KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION

Ad: Maishan

Tel.

R. A. McConaghy, agent and engineer E. J. Bottom, shipping clerk and acct. W. Roberts, harbour master

J. Rickerby, traffic inspector Dr. A. F. Jones, medical officer J. Rickerby, weighbridge office

P. Lemoing, assistant harbour master

NEWCHWANG

Niu-chwang Ying-kow

Newchwang, in latitude 40 deg. 40 min. 38 sec. N., longitude 122 deg. 15 min. 30 sec. E. was opened to foreign trade in May, 1864, and was for more than forty years the only Treaty port in Manchuria. Manchuria comprises the three Provinces of Fêngtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, and is commonly called by the Chinese the "Tung San Sheng "or the Three Eastern Provinces. Newchwang is situated in the most southern of these three pro- vinces-Fêngtien, also known as Shêng Ching-and lies about thirteen miles from the mouth of the Liao River, which empties into the Gulf of Liaotung, a continuation of the Gulf of Pechili. The proper name of the port is Yingkow, and not Newch wang, which is situated 90 li (30 miles) further up the river. The old town of Newchwang was designated by Treaty to be opened to trade, but the first foreigners finding Ying- kow more conveniently situated, and more adapted in every respect for the purposes of trade, quietly installed themselves there and got over the difficulty by the simple process of changing the name of Yingkow into that of Newchwang !