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PEI-TAI-HO AND CHINWANGTAO-NEWCHWANG

MITSUBISHI SHOJI KAISHA, Ltd.

SHOSHO YOKO, LTD.

STANDARD OIL Co.-Tel. Ad: Socɔny

R. W. Mooney

司公璃玻造製噐機華耀 Yao-hua-chi-ch'i-chih-tsao-po-li-kung-ssu YAO HUA MECHANICAL GLASS CO., LTD.-

National Industrial Bank Building, Consular Road, Tientsin; Teleph. 1090 (South); Tel. Ad: Chinglass

Roard of Directors- Li Po Chih (chairman), P. C. Young, C.B.E. (deputy chairman), Li Sze Hsiang, Wang Shao Chuan, Li Shi Ming, A.

Docquier and G. Gaillard

Kochai C. Weng, secretary

Factory-Chinwangtao

O. Gobbe, chief engineer

E. Herman, assistant engineer F. Holroyd, electrician

A. Carlier, head mechanic

M. Noel, cutting shop manager

V. Rouir, O. Jaspart, E. Leclercq,-

M. Wauters, C. Wauters and J. B..

Charlier, drawing machine mech-- anics

L. Fievez, E. Smidts and A. Carena,

gas producer foremen

F. Devienne and F. Bellings, furnace

melters

J. Segard, M. Mondron, C. Lannoy, G. Gilson, M. Fontonelle and A.. Masceaux, glass cutters

Mlle. L. Leclercq, stenographer General Managers

The Kailan Mining Administration,. Meadows Koad, Tientsin. Telephs.. 1018 and 1093 South (q.v.)

NEWCHWANG

莊生 Niu-chwang

口營 Ying-kow

Newchwang, in latitude 40 deg. 40 min. 38 sec. N., longitude 122 deg. 15 min. 30 sec. E.,. was opened to foreign trade in May, 1864, and was for more than 40 years the only Treaty port in Manchuria. Manchuria comprises the three Provinces of Fêngtien, Kirin and Heilungchiang, and is commonly called by the Chinese the "Tung San Shêng." or the Three Eastern Provinces. Newchwang is situated in the most southern of these three provinces-Fêngtien, also known as Shêng Ching-and lies about 13 miles from the mouth of the Liao River, which empties into the Gulf of Liaotung, a continuation of the Gulf of Pechili. The proper name of the port is Yingkow, and not Newchwang, which is situated 90 li (30 miles) further up the river. The old town of Newchwang was designated by Treaty to be opened to trade, but the first foreigners, finding Ying- kow more conveniently situated and more adapted in every respect for the purposes of trade, quietly installed themselves there and got over the difficulty by the simple process of changing the name of Yingkow into that of Newchwang !

The country in the immediate vicinity of the port is flat and unpicturesque in the extreme, and the town itself has nothing in the way of attractions for the traveller. The climate, from the foreigner's point of view, is one of the best in China, the sum- mers being comparatively cool, while the winters are cold and bracing. The hottest summer temperature rarely exceeds 85° (Fahr.), but cold blasts from the North pull down the "mercury" in winter months often to 10° and 15° below zero (Fahr.). The river is generally frozen over for three months of the year, but navigation is practically suspended for four months, from December to the following March. Formerly New- chwang was shut off from the rest of the world during winter, but the advent of rail- ways has changed all this. The Government Railways of North China, through their branch line from Koupangtzu, maintain daily communication with Tientsin, Peking and