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安保 Pao-an

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY

PEKING-TIENTSIN

OF CANTON,

LTD.-4, Mei Chia Hutung; Teleph. 3955

(East); Tel. Ad: Union

R. W. Paulden, branch manager

Agents

G. W. Frodsham & Co., Ld.

司公鐵鋼國美

UNITED STATES STEEL PRODUCTS Co.-22,

Wu Liang Ta Jen Hutung; Teleph. 3805

(East); Tel. Ad: Steelyard

T. W. Stedman, manager

E. J. Hayes

Vickers, Limited, Builders of all Types of Naval and Merchant Vessels and Machinery, Aircraft, Manufacturers of all descriptions of Electrical Plant and Equipments, Diesel Engines, Machine Tools, Motor Vehicles, Cement Plants, Low Temperature Carbonisation Plants, Sporting Guns and Rifles, etc.-Tel. Ad: Vickers. Head Office: Vickers' House, Broadway, Westminster, London, S.W. 1.

R. D. Coath, A.M.I.C.E., representative

623

VARALDA & Co., Exchange, Stock, Share

and General Brokers-98, Morrison St.;

Teleph. 1522 (East); Tel. Ad: Varalda

行銀金正濱横

Heng Pin Cheng Chin Yin Hang

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.-Legation

Street; Tel. Ad: Shokin

W. Takeuchi, manager

T. Tanaka, sub-do. H. Kano, sub-do. Y. Mishima, p.p. do.

T. Kikuchi Y. Kurata

M. Morita

S Kitagawa

H. Tomoda

T. Itoli S. Uchiki N. Imamiya R. Kawasaki 1 I. Ota

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION-

Hatamen Street; Teleph. 954 (East); Tel. Ad: Nassau; Codes used: Mission and Western Union

YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION -

12, Ma Ta Jen Hutung

Dr. Louise Morrow

Miss L. Hinkley | Miss R. M. White Miss E. Kitchin Miss M. E. Durfee

TIENTSIN

Tien-tsin

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Tientsin-or the Ford of Heaven, according to the Chinese meaning of its name- may now well be called the commercial capital of North China. Situated at the junction of the Grand Canal and the Pei Ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 4 min. E. (approx.), it is some 80 miles distant from Peking by road and somewhat further by river. Railway connection with the capital was established in 1897. A road between the two places, 94 miles long, was completed towards the end of 1922, and communica- tion was further facilitated by the inauguration of a wireless telephone service on March 7th of that year. The expeditions of the Allies in 1858-61 greatly enhanced the importance of the city, as it then proved to be the military key of the capital and an excellent base. It was here on June 26th, 1858, that Lord Elgin signed the treaty which was to conclude the war, but which unhappily led to its prolongation. The famous temple in which the treaty was signed, about a mile distant from the West gate, was destroyed by British shells in July, 1900.

Tientsin owes its early importance to its location at the northern terminus of the Grand Canal, and its later development is mainly due to the opening up of North China to foreign trade, to improved railway communications with the Interior, and to the deepening of the Bar and the Hai Ho by the Hai Ho Conservancy Board. Before the advent of steamers, however, Tientsin had become a flourishing centre for junk traffic, and when the tribute rice no longer followed the Grand Canal route-owing