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SOOCHOW

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Before the Taiping rebellion Soochow shared with Hangchow the reputation of being the finest city in China, but it was almost entirely destroyed by the rebels, who captured it on 25th May, 1860. Its recovery by Major (afterwards General) Gordon on 27th Nov., 1863, was the first effective blow to the rebellion. Since that disastrous period it has recovered itself greatly and is once more populous and flourishing, though it has not yet attained to its former pitch of prosperity. It was declared open to foreign trade on the 26th September, 1896, under the provisions. of the Japanese Treaty. The Foreign Settlement is under the southern wall of the city, just across the Canal, and is a strip of land about 13 mile long and a quarter of a mile broad. The Government has made a good carriage road along the Canal bank extending the whole length of the settlement and as far as the railway station, a distance of five and a half miles. The care of roads has been entrusted to a Muni- cipal Council, founded in September, 1920. A new Y.M.C.A. building was opened in December, 1921. The Chinese and European school dates back to 1900. The gross value of the trade of the port passing through the Maritime Customs in 1923 was Hk. Tls. 22,726,765, as compared with Tls. 26,364,207 in 1922, and Hk. Tls. 19,389,974- in 1921. But this represents only a portion of the total trade of the port, a quantity of which does not come under the jurisdiction of the Customs.

亞細亞 A-si-a

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Tel. Ad: Doric

J. L. Bowker, manager

J. H. Ford

J. Oostermeyer | C. L. Thornton

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),

LTD.

CONSULATE, JAPANESE

Acting Consul-G. Owaku Chancellor-H. Matsubara Chief of Police-K. Muto

校 學範師 子女海景

LAURA HAYGOOD NORMAL SCHOOL

Miss Louise Robinson, principal

Miss Kate B. Hackney

Miss Annie E. Bradshaw

Miss Nina Troy

Miss Alice Alsup Miss F. McKnight

Miss Marie Raffo Miss F. Powell

局政郵國民華中

POST OFFICE

Postmaster--J. Rudland

院醫習博州蘇

Soo-chow Hai-kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-T. A. M. Castle Assists.-S. Toscani and H. Wong

Medical Officers-W. H. Park, and

C. H. Hendry

Tidesurveyor-J. R. Heard

Examiners-N. P. Lebedeff, S. Kani

Tidewaiter-W. McLaren

學女華英

DAVIDSON MEMORIAL SCHOOL- 2, West

Soochow Station

Miss L. L. Knoblex, principal

Miss M. Winn, teacher of English

KIANGSU LIKIN COLLECTORATE

Commissioner-T. A. M. Castle

SOOCHOW HOSPITAL

Jno. A. Snell, M.D., Supt.

Mrs. Jno. A. Snell

W. H. Park, M.D.

Mrs. W. H. Park C. H. Hendry, M.D. Mrs. C. H. Hendry H. P. Ramsey, M.D. Mrs. H. P. Ramsey Josephine Valentine, R.N. Anniyce Hummel, R.N. C. Copenhover, R.N. B. J. Wingfield, R.N.

Tung-woo-ta-hok

SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (incorporated un-- der the laws of the State of Tennessee,. U.S.A., 1900)-Tien Sz Tsang

W. B. Nance, B.A., D.D., president