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CHEFOO

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hands of foreigners promise to assume large proportions. Silk thread and silk twist are largely made and exported from here to France and America. Chefoo uses a large percentage of the cocoons from Corea and Manchuria that come to China. A Silk Improvement Commission was established in 1920 and has bought a property known as "Fère Maviel's estate" for the purpose of opening a college for women as well as for men. There is a large trade in hair-net making. English firms send out the hair, which is sent into the interior of the province and made into nets by children. A company began the erection of a plant for refining salt in 1920. Chefoo was connected in 1900 by telegraph cables with Tientsin, Port Arthur, Weihaiwei, Tsingtao and Shanghai.

The Commissioner of Customs, in his report for 1921, says: Bare living expenses for both Chinese and foreigners are probably higher here than in any place in China." The price of land has risen very rapidly of late and a fall is expected. A great deal of building has been done; the price of foreign-style building has doubled in two years and is said to be much above that of Shanghai.

The net value of the trade of the port for 1923 was Hk. Tls. 44,524,148, as compared with Hk. Tls. 45,416,429 in 1922, and Hk. Tls. 55,575,867 in 1921.

Chefoo is two days' journey from Shanghai, and communication is maintained by the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co., the China Merchants' S. N. Co., and the China Navigation Co. Chefoo is an important port of call for large numbers of regular line and tramp steamers, being in the line of communication between Indian, South China, Japanese, Korean and Manchurian ports and the ports in the north. During the season from March to December as many as 20 to 30 steamers per day often enter and clear the port. The port supplies Vladivostock and Siberia with upwards of 100,000 coolies annually; the coolies leave for Vladivostock during the spring months, and those returning reach Chefoo in the latter part of the year. This movement of coolies furnishes business for numbers of steamers.

DIRECTORY

ANZ & Co., O. H.-Gipperich Street; Tel.

Ad: Anz

O. H. Anz, partner (Hamburg) W. Busse,

do.

C. W. Schmidt, do.

Agencies

Norddeutscher-Lloyd Hamburg-Amerika Linie

Hugo Stinnes China Co. (S.S. Line)

Columbia Pacific Shipping Co. North China Insurance Co. Pearl Association Co.

Java Sea and Fire Insurance Co.

Netherlands Insurance Co.,

Mannheimer Insurance Co.

Magdeburger Insurance Co.

司公油火亞細亞商英

Ying-Shang A-si-a-huo-yu-kung-sz

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric

E. Wilkinson

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL (facing sea)-Teleph.

66; Tel. Ad: Astor

AUGUSTESEN CHINA-TRADE, H, C, Ex- porters of Silks, Laces, Hair-nets, Oil Seeds, etc., General Importers and Commission Agents Tel. Ad: Safe- guard; Codes: All Standard Codes and Private Codes. Head Office: Shanghai. Branches: Hankow, Newchwang and Mukden

Hsue Ching Hang, agent

Tsao Hsi Ching, manager

行銀通交台烟

BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS

BOETER & NIGGEMANN, Manufacturers

and Exporters

司公烟美英

Ying May Yen Kung Ssu

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),

LTD.-Tel, Ad: Powhattan; all Codes

F. L. White

BRITISH CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Chairman-V. R. Eckford

Hon. Secretary-A. R. Knowles