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LUNGCHINGTSUN-HUNCHUN

DIRECTORY

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BANK OF CHOSEN

S. Shiozawa, manager

T. Itoh, sub-manager

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS

Acting Commissioner-R. C. Grierson

(and at Hunchun) Assistant-M. Nakamura

Acting Tidesurveyor-A. J. Cox

Tidewaiters-L. F. Dullam, G. Iwa-

kuma and Yun Kiang Hua Local Watcher-Kim Shih Yeh

JAPANESE CONSULATE

Consul-General-Y. Suzuki Vice-Consul-S. Kondo

Chancellors-S. Ohta, S. Takeuchi,

T. Tanaka and D. Kameda Interpreter-K. Kiriu

Police Supt.-K. Suyematsu Chief of Police-M. Furuyama

HUNCHUN

春琿

Hunchun is derived from Manchu, meaning frontier, and is situated in lat. 42 deg. 25 min. 5 sec. N., long. 130 deg. 22 min. 10 sec. E. of Greenwich, on the right bank of the Hung Ch'i Ho, some 35 li from the Chino-Russian frontier and about 90 li distant from Novokiewsk. In 1714 a detachment of soldiers came here from Ninguta, and this may be regarded as the beginning of Hunchun, which was to be opened to trade, by treaty with Japan (Manchurian Convention), in 1905, but the Customs staff did not arrive before December, 1909. The surrounding districts are fairly fertile, and the mining possibilities (coal, gold, and copper) may, when taken in hand, prove of considerable value. Trade, by carts or mules, is conducted with Korea, Japan via Seishin, Ungi, with Russia via Vladivostock, Possiet, Novokiewsk, and also with Kirin via Yenchi. The net value of the trade in 1923 was Hk. Tls. 1,581,568, as compared with Hk. Tls. 1,517,131 in 1922, Hk. Tls. 1,446,886 in 1921, and Hk. Tls. 779,283 in 1920. The town (earthen walled) has a population of about 5,000, of whom 278 are Japanese and 711 Koreans. The principal items of export are grain (millet, kaoliang), beans, bean-cake, bean-oil, medicines, ginseng, and timber, and of import, cotton goods, kerosene oil and matches. Towards the end of 1921 an electric light plant was installed in the town by a Chinese concern.

With better roads, improved means of communication and greater security from brigands the trade of these districts will, no doubt, expand considerably.

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

DIRECTORY

Acting Commissioner R. C. Grierson

(at Lungchingtsun)

Assistant J. P. Laucournet (in charge) Examiners-C. Love and G. Ohta Messenger-I. Sonczek

JAPANESE CONSULATE

Consul-General-Y. Suzuki (at Lung-

chingtsun)

Vice-Consul-M. Tanaka Secretary-T. Nakamura Interpreter-K. Tamura Chief of Police-S, Tanaka