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WENCHOW

bamboos are kept on hand. The net value of the trade of the port coming under the cognizance of the Maritime Customs for 1919 was Hk. Tls. 4,062,117, as compared with Hk. Tls. 3,396,761 for 1918, Hk. Tls. 3,232,222 for 1917, and Hk. Tls. 3,505,313 for 1916.

During August and September of 1912 two abnormal freshets occurred in the Wênchow river, causing immense destruction of life and property. In the upper reaches of the main river the water rose 60 feet above normal level, washing away villages and carrying away houses bodily. Some 30,000 people are reported to have been drowned in the Yungchia, Chingtien, Ch'uchow and Juian magistracies. Such a calamity was unprecedented within the memory of the oldest inhabitant.

Two particularly severe typhoons in the summer of 1920 caused enormous damage in the neighbourhood. Haimen, a neighbouring city, about 85 miles by sea north-east of Wenchow, was partially destroyed on July 15th by a tidal wave with great loss of life; while in the Nanchi River valley, opposite Wenchow, an equally large loss of life was reported in the second typhoon between September 4th and 6th.

DIRECTORY

司油火亞細亞商英

Ying-shang-a-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD., THE-Tel. Ad: Doric

司公煙美英華駐

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Powhattan

C. Cance, terrritory manager

F. P. Bahon, salesman

Wang Gin Yung, chief territory assist.

;司公船輪業商

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

T. C. Sze, manager

Chue Tsing-fu, clerk in charge

Hsu-tan

S. Y. Chue

局政郵華中大州温

CHINESE POST OFFICE

First Class Postmaster-Deng Yong Yü

Postal Clerk-Ch'a Yung Sung

CONSULATES

門衙事領國英大

Da Ying-kwoh-ling-sz-ya-mên

GREAT BRITAIN

Actg. Consul-J. W. O. Davidson,

residing at Ningpo

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Consul-General in Shanghai-Edwin

S. Cunningham

關海甌 Ou Hai Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-C. E. Tanant Assistant-K. Hirano

Do. -Wong Haiu Geng

Harbour

Acting Tidesurveyor and

Master-H. J. Christophersen Tidewaiters-H. Gaylard, R. West

MUSTARD & Co;-Tel. Ad: Mustard

C. Cance, representative

F. P. Bahon

PAO HUA STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. C. Aroud

Rev. Prost

Rev. L. Marques

Rev. J. Salon

Rev. Boisard

院醫望若董州温

SOEURS DE LA CHARITE DE ST VINCENT DE

PAUL-Hopital Jean Gabriel

S. Ste Claire-Deville, sup.

S. Chauvel

S. Costorton

S. Rey S. Gonçalves S. François

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

S. K. Chu, manager