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KIAOCHAU (TSINGTAO)

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rown. The foreign residential quarter at Tsingtao has been well laid out, and there e some good foreign hotels. The first sod of the Shantung Railway was cut by rince Henry of Prussia in October, 1899, and the line to Tsinanfu was opened on Ihe 1st June, 1904. It has done a prosperous business from the day it was opened.

The coal mines have shown good progress. Hungshan coal enjoys an ever-increas- hg demand for bunker coal. Thanks to favourable conditions, such as the abundance labour and material near at hand, the atmospheric temperature specially suited pr the industry, the absence of labour unrest and the rise of the tariff rates, the Prospects of the cotton spinning industry at this port are very bright.

The development of the town of Tsingtao has made considerable progress; the town Es lit by electricity, houses have sprung up in all directions, and a system of water upply (extended in 1922) and sewerage has added much to the hygienic conditions of he place. The dry dock commenced operations in October, 1905, and important new Harbour works were completed a few years ago. The dock employed 56 Europeans nd an average of 1,400 Chinese workmen. Over 100 acres of the north-eastern area hear the Great Harbour were reclaimed in 1919-20 and roads have been laid out on it.

The wireless installation at the Signal Berg, originally built by the Germans, was emoved by the Japanese naval authorities in June, 1921. A powerful new wireless- tation was established by the Japanese military authorities at Taisichen at the close of the year. It is available to the public for "urgent' telegrams.

For the European community the Government maintained a reformed modern grammar school, open to boys and girls alike. In addition to the State school there was a girls' boarding and day school carried on by Franciscan Nuns. There were also a number of village schools in which in a five-years' course of instruction the pupils could obtain an elementary knowledge of Chinese, arithmetic, physical and political geography, natural science and German. For secondary instruction in European and Chinese sciences there was the German-Chinese High School, opened on October 25th, 01901. A thoroughly equipped observatory was opened in January, 1912, with funds. supplied by the Union of German Navy Leagues abroad. A Boys' Middle school, built- at a cost of Yen 228,000, now stands where the Germans had crected an aero-shed on (the western slope of the Yamen Forts.

The temperate climate and the excellent beach have brought Tsingtao into promin- fence as a summer resort.

DIRECTORY

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. G. Masters, manager

E. Wilkinson

R. E. Ayris

R. A. Bell (absent)

Miss Henderson

A. C. Stewart, installation mgr.

BANK OF CHINA-Shantung Road

行銀鮮朝

BANK OF CHOSEN

N. Hiras, manager

BANK OF COMMUNICATION-11, Shantung

Road

BOTELIIO BROS., Merchants-Hongkon

Bank Building; Tel. Ad: Botelho

P. V. Botelho (Hongkong)

J. H. Botelho (Shanghai)

B. B. dos Remedios, signs per pro

M. A. Carvalho

Miss S. Remedios

Agents

Compania Trasatlantica de Barcelona.

American Insurance Co. of New Jersey

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO (CHINA), LTD.

-Cornabé, Eckford & Sears Building

S. A. Vincent

古太 Tai.koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants

H. M. Webb, signs per pro.

R. A. Wilkinson

G. Campbell