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PEKING-TIENTSIN

TSING HUA COLLEGE-Tsing Hua Yuan;

Teleph. 85, Hsi Yuen; Tel. Ad: Bureduc

King Pang-Cheng, B.S., M.F.

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

文利烏 U-li-man

ULLMANN & Co., J., Jewellers, Diamond

Merchants, Watchmakers

Legation

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

R. Dreyfus, manager

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. 1. Tsung-wen- men-nei-to-t'on mao-chia-wan; Teleph. 894; Tel. Ad: Vickers

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H. Beaumont Donaldson, general

manager

Miss M. J. Cobbett, private secretary

行銀金正濱橫

Heng Pin Cheng Chin Yin Hang

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.--Legation

Street; Tel. Ad: Specie

K. Onuki, manager

p. p.

J. Tanabe, signs P. 8. Hanasaki

K. Shuku

I. Kawakami T. Kikuchi Y. Motomura

S. Nakamura

T. Isodo 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 D. W. Edwards, asst. do.

P. C. Chang, executive secretary, East

City Building

Secretaries-J. S. Burgess, Fei Chi

Hao, W. F. Yuan, J. L. Childs, K. H. Hsu, P. C. Hsu, H. L. Liu, R. J. Forbes, O. R. Hooley, L. M. Mead, A. Cornwell, Barker Edgar C. F. Li

TIENTSIN

Tien-tsin

Tientsin-or the Ford of Heaven, according to the Chinese meaning of its name- may now well be called the commercial capital of North China. Situated at the junction of the Grand Canal and the Pei Ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 4 min. E. (approx.), it is some 80 miles distant from Peking by road and somewhat further by river. Railway connection with the Capital was established in 1897, and most of the traffic between the two cities is now carried on by this means. Tientsin owes its early importance to its location at the northern terminus of the Grand Canal, and its later development is mainly due to the opening up of North China to foreign trade, to improved railway communications with the Interior, and to the deepening of the Bar and the Hai Ho by the agency of the Hai Ho Conservancy Board. Before the advent of steamers, however, Tientsin had become a flourishing centre for junk traffic, and when the tribute rice no longer followed the Grand Canal route-owing to the shoaling of this ancient and celebrated waterway-it was sent to Tientsin in sea-going junks until comparatively recent years. It may be mentioned here that a Commission, composed of Chinese and foreign engineers, has recently been established to draw up plans for the improvement of the Grand Canal, and hopes are entertained that it will ultimately be restored to something like its former usefulness. While it is improbable that it will ever again be used for through traffic from the Yangtsze it will doubtless serve a very useful purpose as a means of communication between many busy trading centres in this Province and Tientsin. The natural expansion of trade to be expected from Tientsin's unique position as the distributing centre of North China has been arrested from time to time by the defective communications with the sea; both the Hai Ho and the Taku Bar have stood in the way of development and limited the