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HANKOW_YOCHOW

905

司公限有造製器機子揚

YANGTZE ENGINEERING WORKS, LTD., THE General Office: rue d'Autremer, French

Concession; Works: Seven Mile Creek; Telephs. 170 and 728; Tel. Ad: Yangworks; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn., Western Union, Engineering 2nd edn., and Bentley's Complete Phrase

Wong Kwong, general manager

司公業商隆義

Yee Loong Trading Co., Importers,

Exporters, General Merchants-Tel. Ad:

Trading; Codes: Bentley's, A.B.C. 5th Imp., Private

L. Y. Chiu, manager

S. K. Newton Tsui

T. M. Kao

Y. H. Chen

W. H. Tao

T. C. Wong

Agencies

S. L. Li

Y. C. Chang

B. K. Li

T. T. Chen

North River Ins. Co., New York, N.Y.

National Fire Ins. Co., Hartford, Conn.

行銀金正濱横

Heng-pin-cheng-chin-yin-hang

YOKOHAMA

SPECIE BANK-13,

Bund;

Telephs. 467, 105 and 299; Tel. Ad: Specie

T. Yoshimochi, sub-manager

Y. Noguchi, manager

T. Hirose, per pro.

do.

行銀誠興聚

Young Brothers Banking Corpora- tion-Taiping Road; Telph. 387; Tel.

Ad: 2435. Branches in the Province of Szechwan and the large ports of China

S. C. Yang, president

T. S. Yang, vice-president Hankow Office

S. P. Ho, manager

H. P. Yang, assistant manager S. V. Ma,

do.

Young Brothers Trading Co., Ex-

porters-Russian Concession; Tel. Ad: Yangbrosco

Li Jui, manager

A. W. Davidson, secretary

F. W. Bahnson, sales agent

會年靑教督基口漢

Hankow Chitu-chiao Ch'ing-nien-hui

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF

WUHAN-Tel. Ad: Flamingo; Codes:

Missions C.I.M., Western Union

Secretaries-A. M. Guttery, E. L. Hall,

W. P. Mills, W. R. Stewart and A. B. Davis

會年青敎督基昌武

Wuchang Chitu-chiao Ch'ing-nien-hui

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WUCHANG-54, Fu Yuen Kai, Wuchang; Teleph. 262

Secretary-W. R. Stewart

YOCHOW

Yochow, with a population of 15,000 to 20,000, is situated in latitude 29° 26′ 29′′ N. and longitude 113° 11′ 6′′ E. (Greenwich), at the outlet of the Tungting Lake. Past it ebbs and flows practically the whole of the trade of Hunan, which, however, adds nothing to the prosperity of the place, as it simply passes by after having paid its inward and outward taxes. The city is the gateway of the province and nothing more. British, American, Japanese and Chinese firms maintain regular communication with Changteh, Yiyang and Chinslih, the trade centre of western Hunan.

The opening

of Changsha took away much of Yochow's transit trade; the Hankow-Canton Railway has, however, so far progressed towards completion that trains are running between Changsha and Wuchang (Hankow): the line is quite close to the city of Yochow, and the place may, in the near future, experience better times if the hope of permanent peace can only be realised.

The province of Hunan used to be to foreign commerce what Tibet has been to the explorer a Forbidden Land-and it is relatively few years ago that foreigners were stoned out of Yochow. In 1904, the people were described as showing a "friendly attitude" to all foreigners, which attitude is now well maintained

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