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Portuguese 800 were massacred. No further attempt at trade with this port was made till towards the close of the 17th century, when the East India Company established a factory at the island of Chusan, some forty miles from Ningpo. The attempt to found a trade mart there, however, proved unsatisfactory, and the factory was abandoned after a few years' trial. The port was deserted by foreigners for many years after that. When hostilities broke out between Great Britain and China in 1839, the fleet moved north from Canton, and on the 13th October, 1841, occupied Ningpo, and an English garrison was stationed there for some time. In March, 1842, an attempt was made by the Chinese to re-take the city, but the British artillery repulsed them with great slaughter. Ningpo was evacuated on May 7th, and, on the proclamation of peace in the following August, the port was thrown open to foreign trade.

Ningpo is built on a plain which stretches away to a considerable distance on either side. It is a walled city, the walls enclosing a space of some five miles in cir- cumference. The walls are built of brick, and are about twenty-five feet high. They are fifteen feet wide at the summit, and twenty-two at the base. Access is obtained to the town by six gates. A large moat commences at the north gate and runs along the foot of the wall for about three miles on the landward side, until it stops at what is called the Bridge Gate. The main street runs from east to west. Several of the streets are spanned by arches erected in memory of distinguished natives. Ningpo has been celebrated as possessing the fourth library of Chinese works, in point of numbers, which existed in the empire. It was owned by a family who resided near the south gate. The sit eoccupied by the foreign residences is on the north bank of the river. The population of Ningpo is estimated at 255,000. The city will eventually be con- nected with Shanghai and Hangchow by rail, but at present the line is completed only as far as Pakuan, east of Shaohsing.

Two cotton mills are established in Ningpo, one of which started in 1896 and the other in 1907. There are also a match factory, an electric light company, and a local telephone company. The tea trade has fallen off owing to a deviation of the Fychow teas which formerly passed through Ningpo but are now forwarded to Shanghai vid Hangchow. The net value of the trade of the port in 1920 was Hk. Tls. 28,407,820 as compared with Hk. Tls. 28,334,260 in 1919, Hk. Tls. 29,962,770 in 1918 and Hk. Tls. 25,107,523 in 1917.

亞細亞

A-si-a

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric; Codes: A.B.C., 5th

edn. and Bentley's (Oil ed.)

J. L. Bowker (abs.)

A. H. Hopkyn Rees, manager

W. W. Cumming

T. H. Lampert

Miss Palmer

行銀國中

BANK OF CHINA

E. K. Chen, manager

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co., LTD.

E. A. Anderson, local manager

G. Davis

古太

Ta-koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ltd.)

G. E. J. Rose, signs per pro.

Agencies

China Navigation Co., Ld. Ocean Steamship Co., Ld.

China Mutual Steam Nav. Co., Ld. Canadian Govt. Merchant Marine, Ld. Taikoo Sugar Refining Co., Ld.

Taikoo Dockyard & Engineering Co.

of Hongkong, Ld.

London and Lancs. Fire Insce. Co., Royal Exchange Assurance Corpn. Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

British Traders' Insurance Co., Ld.

Union Insce. Society of Canton, Ld.

British and Foreign Marine Ins. Co., Ld.

Standard Marine Insurance Co., Ld.

Sea Insurance Co., Ld.

Guardian Assurance Co., Ld.

局甬商招 Chau Shang Yung-chuk

CHINA MERCHANTS' STEAM NAVIGATION CO.

Y. J. Shao Hung, manager

Li Ching-lin, Wong Sing Tsar

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