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SHASI-CHANGSHA

DIRECTORY

亞細亞 A-i-a

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO., LTD., THE-Tel.

Ad Doric

I. F. Drysdale

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.(CHINA), LD.

S. A. Vincent, manager C. W. Stocks

BULIN & CO., LTD.,Exporters and Importers

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ld.)

Sun-Chik sen, agent

Agents

China Navigation Co, Ld.

Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.

CHINA MERCHANTS STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Y. Y. Shu, manager

CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN- Tel: Ad: Britain,

Ichang

Consul-J. L. Smith (resident at

Ichang)

門衙事領本日大

Ta-Jih-pen-ling-shi-ya-men

JAPAN

In Charge of Consulate-Y. Tomita

Chief of Police-J. Nakajima

關市沙 Shasi Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-H.

Gröne

Dawson-

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-

W. McF. Robb

Asst. Examiner R. Dudley Tidewaiters-A. C. G. Stewart, F. L.

Wilson

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.

MITSUBISHI & Co., Exporters and Im-

porters

NISSIN & CO. (Japan Cotton Trading Co.)

NISSIN KISSEN KAISHA (Japan - China

Steamship Co., Ld.)

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

POST OFFICE, JAPANESE

Postmaster-K. Shimosaka Assistant-G. Inouye

SANHO YOKO, General Store

O. Arao

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

R. W. Mooney, manager

D. C. Sims

YOSHIDA & Co., Exporters and linporters

CHANGSHA

Chang-sha

Changsha ("Long Sands"), the capital city of Hunan, situated on the right bank of the Hsiang River about 100 miles South of Yochow, became a Treaty port under the China-Japan Commercial Treaty of 1903, a Customs House being established on 1st July, 1904. The surrounding country is hilly and very picturesque, affording delightful walks and picnics. Opposite to the city rises Yolushan hill to the height of about 800 feet. On it is a large stone tablet (Yu Pei) recounting the mastery of the floods that once covered an enormous tract of Central China. It was placed there by order of the Great Yü, founder of the Hsia Dynasty, B.C. 2205. (See Williams' Middle Kingdom, Vol. II., pp. 149-151.) The magnificent timber on the south of the hill, extending from the Yolushan High School, enclosing the Confucian and the Buddhist temples, and extend- ing to the Taoist temple at the top-whence a beautiful view to the South can be obtained-is well worth a visit from travellers. The school dates back many hundred years and was once one of the most famous in this land of scholars, and under its present

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