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BANK OF CHOSEN

BRITISH CONSULATE

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KIRIN--LUNGCHINGTSUN

DIRECTORY

Consul-General F. E. Wilkinson,

C.M.G. (residing at Mukden)

CHINESE POST OFFICE (First Class Office)

IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Rev. and Mrs. J. McWhirter

Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Greig

Miss E. C. McMordie

Dr. Emma M. Crooks

Miss M. Hilton

Dr. Dorothy Sinton

Rev. & Mrs. H. K. Johnston

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

S. G. Mgr. Gaspais, Evêque titulaire

de Canope

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R. P. Cubizolles, pro-vicaire Lacquois, directeur du grand séminaire Y.Rouger, directeur du petit séminaire L. Gibert

A. Sagard

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK

LUNGCHINGTSUN

村井龍 Lung chingtsun

Lungchingtsun (Dragon Well Village), situated lat. 42 deg. 46 min. N. and long. 129 deg. 25 min. E., is one of the trade marts opened on 1st January, 1910, under the Chino-Korean Frontier Agreement of 4th September, 1909. The mart has a popula- tion of about 9,000 inhabitants, composed of about 6,000 Koreans, 2,500 Chinese, and 550 Japanese. Situated in a fertile plain, its exports are agricultural products: millet, kaoliang, maize, wheat, barley, and beans; also native spirits from local distilleries. There are promising mining possibilities (coal, copper, silver, and gold) waiting development. For several years copper has been exported from the Tien Pao Shan mine. The trade-by carts and mules-is mainly via Huining and Seishin to and from Korea. The principal imports are kerosene oil, matches, cotton goods, and Japanese sundries. The value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Customs in 1924 was Hk. Tls. 4,647,450, as compared with Hk. Tls. 5,025,060 in 1923, Hk. Tls. 3,359,493 in 1922, and Hk. Tls. 3,056,037 in 1921. Telephone and telegraph lines, in addition to the Chinese telegraph and telephone lines, connect Lungchingtsun with the neighbouring marts of Yenki and Towtaokow. A handsome new building for the Bank of Chosen was completed in 1923.