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ICHANC-CHUNGKING

Theodoricus Hesseling, Columbanus Clement, Marinus Adons, Carolus Goethals, Peregrinus Teunissen, Arnulphus Merchier, Leo Lippens, Gaspar Doumen, Felix Mevis, Hermenegildus Turf, Piatus Wantz, Victor Stolle, Behremans Moris, Sigfridus Huwaert, Eliseus Adons, P. Ubaldus van Sever, Gaudentius Wouters, Pancratius Vercauteren, Maternus Perlot, Odilo Wiaux and Methodius van Steenwinckel

F.Fs. Solanus De Cock, Libertus

Callebaut, Donatus Sammels and Valentinus Verstraeten

局政郵昌宜

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postmaster-G. M. Rosse

ROBERT DOLLAR CO.

D. A. Proudfoot, manager

s. s. "Robert Dollar" - G. E. Crum

s. s. "Alice Dollar"-A. W. Hesselbarth

Mci-foo

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

W. L. Carney, manager

B. B. Duxbury, installation s. s. "Meitan"

J. Miclo

SZECHUAN-HANKOW

E Olsen | E. E. Hartzel.

RAILWAY (I-Kwei Section) --Tel. Ad: Szehan ; Codes: Western Union, A. B. C. 5th edn., Engineering

C. J. Carroll, engineer-in-chief Li-Wen-chi, cadet engineer

C. S. Auyang, deputy in charge of

maintenance affairs

COMPAGNIE SINO-FRANCAISE DE NAVIGN.

T. C. Wai, manager

s. s. "Hungfok," "Hungkiang"

Russell A. Bell-Syer

J. Turner

局報電昌宜

ATI

I-chang-tin-pau-kuk

TELEGRAPH OFFICE, CHINESE

Kuo Chung Kok, manager

CHUNGKING

慶重 I Chung-king

The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec. N., long. 106 deg. 30 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen, but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province. All exports yellow silk, white wax, hides, wool, hemp, feathers, bristles, rhubarb, musk, and the large assortment of Chinese medicines are received, assorted, repacked and shipped to Ichang, Hankow, and Shasi, consignments to the latter port being transhipped there into smaller junks, and forwarded to the southern provinces, via the Tung Ting lake.

The

The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtsze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side of the Yangtsze. It is surrounded by a crenelated stone wall in good repair, which is fisome ve miles in circumference, pierced with nine gates. This wall was built in 1761, replacing an older one. Chungking is now electrically lighted, a native company with an authorised capital of $300,000 having been formed for that purpose. climate of Chungking is depressing, the summer being hot and damp, the winters raw and chilly, with thick fogs from November to March. Spring and Autumn can indeed hardly be said to exist. The ordinary rise of the river is about 75 feet; in 1892 it rose 93 feet, on 6th August, 1898, to 101 ft., and on 22nd July, 1920, to 95 ft. 2 in., the highest level recorded for fifteen years, the water not being able to force its way fast enough through the gorges. On the 11th August, 1905, the river rose to 108 feet. In 1908 it only attained a height of 52 feet 4 inches. According to a Chinese report the river rose 120 feet in 1878. On the left bank of the Kialing and facing Chungking, extending below the junction of the two rivers,