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offices are at Moji.

MOJI AND SHIMONOSEKI

There is a fairly strong tidal current through the Straits, but the anchorage, which is at Moji, is only affected by an eddy, and good_holding ground is general. Steamers entering from the West can get pilots at Rokuren Light, where boats have to stop in any case for medical inspection and harbour- master's instructions. From the eastward this inspection takes place at Hesaki Light. Means of transport are good. Liners run regularly to all foreign ordinary ports of call; and, while from Shimonoseki the Sanyo Railway taps the north, from Moji the Kiushiu Railway taps the south of Japan. The Shimonoseki Station Hotel, which for many years provided good accommodation for foreigners, was destroyed by fire in July, 1922; but a new thoroughly up to date hotel has been rebuilt on the former site and was opened on the 1st April, 1924. The Imperial Railway Department has also four large ferry boats plying between Moji and the Shimonoseki Station, while a ten-minute ferry plies between the usual landing places at Moji and Shimonoseki. There is a project on foot to construct a tunnel under the Straits. Both towns have municipal waterworks, are lit by electricity, and are connected by telephone with the principal towns, from Kagoshima and Nagasaki, in the south, to Tokyo in the north-east. Imports at Moji for 1923 amounted to Yen 68,645,072, and exports to Yen 22,881,141, as compared with Yen 64,446,609 and Yen 24,919,122, respectively, for the previous year. The population of Shimonoseki at the close of 1923 was 84,110 and of Moji 91,990. It should be specially noted that photographing and sketching are forbidden within a radius of ten miles round Shimonoseki and Moji on land and sea. The law in this respect is strictly enforced and ignorance is not accepted as an excuse.

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