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that which was at first a hobby is now a paying industry. Other very important industries are the manufacture of foreign silk and hand-made silk laces, which in the hands of foreigners promise to assume large proportions. Silk thread and silk twist are largely made and exported from here to France and America. Chefoo uses a large percentage of the cocoons from Corea and Manchuria which come to China. There is now a large trade in hair net making. English firms send out the hair which is sent into the interior of the province and made into nets by children. Chefoo was in 1900 connected by telegraph cables with Tientsin, Port Arthur, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Shanghai.

The net value of the trade of the port for 1918 was Hk. Tls. 30,835,885 as compared with Hk. Tls. 32,233,419 in 1917 and Hk. Tls. 35,077,832 in 1916.

Chefoo is an important port of call for large numbers of regular line and tramp steamers, being in the line of communication between Indian, South China, Japanese, Corean and Manchurian ports and the ports in the north. During the season from March to December as many as twenty to thirty steamers per day often enter and clear the port. The port supplies Vladivostock and Siberia with upwards of one hundred thousand coolies annually; the coolies leave for Vladivostock during the spring months, and those returning reach Chefoo in the latter part of the year. This movement of coolies furnishes business for numbers of steamers.

DIRECTORY

ANDERSEN, MEYER & Co., LTD., Im- porters, Exporters and Engineers- Telephs. 322, 390; Tel. Ad: Danica; Head Office: Shanghai

E. Taranger

F. W. Smith

H. B. Rowsell | Miss Morphew

Arnaud-Coste, A. & R. V. Dent, Raw Silks, Pongees, Waste Silk Merchants and General Exporters-Tel. Arcodent

Ad:

E. H. Casey, manager, signs per pro.

W. Malcolm

Agents

Phoenix Assnce. Co., Ld., Lond. (Fire

and Marine)

司公油火亞細亞商英

Ying-Shang-A-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric

A. St. W. Cursham

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL (facing sea)-Teleph.

66: Tel. Ad: Astor-Astor Cinema

E. Berruchon

行銀通交台烟

BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS

E. W. Chun, manager

C. A. Chun, secretary

Seun King Hae, cashier

Woo Min Sam,

do.

Sa Yang Ping, accountant

BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

G. C. F. Russell, chairman

A. Rouse, hon. secy.

L. H. Howell, hon. treas.

古太

Tai-Koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire & Sons

Ltd.), Merchants

L. H. Howell, signs per pro.

J. N. Cunningham

Agencies

China Navigation Co., Ld. Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.

China Mutual Steam Navigation Co.,Ld.

Australian Oriental Line

Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.

Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering_Co.

of Hongkong, Ld., Agents for J. I. Thornycroft & Co., Ld.

Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn.

Orient Insurance Co.

Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

British & Foreign Mar. Ins. Co., Ld.

Sea Insurance Co., Ld.

Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld.

Guardian Assce. Co., Ld. (Marine)

Hongkong & S'hai. Banking Corpn.

Chartered BANK OF INDIA, AUSTRALIA &

CHINA

Agents-

Cornabe, Eckford & Co.

↑EI Hai-pa-kung-cheng-kwei

會程工壩海

CHEFOO HARBOUR IMPROVEMENT COMM.

Wang Shou-shan, chairman