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BANK OF CHOSEN

G. Ikeda, manager **

LUNGCHINGTSUN-HUNCHUN

S. Shiozawa, sub-manager

CONSULATES

JAPAN

DIRECTORY

Acting Consul-General-Yosakichi

Saka

Vice-Consul-Y. Owaku

Chancellors- K. Yendo, S. Kawa- nami (at Yenchi), Y. Yanagi, S. Takeuchi, M. Sunaga, M. Suwa (at Toutaokou)

Police Supts.-K. Suyematsu, K.

Nishimura

Chief of Police-C. Kaneko

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-K. H. von Lindholm

(at Hunchun)

Assistants-P. B. Joly (in charge), M.

Itoh

Examiner E. L. Hallford

Tidewaiters-P. Blank, I. Sahara (at

Huohulikou Barrier)

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HUNCHUN

春暉

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Hunchun is derived from Manchu, meaning frontier, and is situated lat. 42 deg. 25 min. 5 sec. N., long. 130 deg. 22 min. 10 sec. E. of Greenwich, on the right bank of the Hung Ch'i Ho, some 35 li from the Chino Russian frontier and about 90 li distant from Novokiewsk. In 1714 a detachment of soldiers came here from Ninguta, and this may be regarded as the beginning of Hunchun, which was to be opened to trade, by treaty with Japan (Manchurian Convention), in 1905, but the Customs staff did not arrive before December, 1909. The surrounding districts are fairly fertile, and the mining possibilities (coal, gold, and copper) may, when taken in hand, prove of considerable value. Trade, by carts or mules, is conducted with Korea, Japan via Seishin, Ungi, with Russia via Vladivostock, Possiet, Novokiewsk and also with Kirin via Yenchi. The total value of the trade in 1919 was Hk. Tls. 1,099,992, as compared with Hk. Tls. 1,094,880 in 1918 and Hk. Tls. 891,013 in 1917. The town (earthen walled) has a population of about 5,000, of which 139 are Japanese and 501 Koreans. The principal items of export are grain (inillet, kaoliang), beans, bean-cake, bean-oil, medicines, ginseng, and timber, and of import, cotton goods, kerosene oil, and matches.

With better roads and improved means of communication the trade of these districts will, no doubt, expand considerably.

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

DIRECTORY

Commissioner-K. H. von Lindholm

(Hunchun and Lungchingtsun) Tidewaiters-N. Aoki, A. P. Bugaeff

Medical Officer-K. Abe

JAPANESE CONSULATE

Acting Consul-General-Y. Sakai (at

Lungchingtsun)

Vice-Consul-I. Akisu

Police Inspectors-K. Tokuyama and

T. Taguchi

Postal Clerk-S. Asakura Secretary-S. Tagamatsu