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PEKING-TIENTSIN

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司公烟旗花京北

Pe-king-far-chi-yin-kung-sze

TOBACCO PRODUCTS CORPORATION (CHINA),

Tobacco Products-36, Ma Shih Ta

Chieh

H. J. Devine, manager

W. D. Dahms

艾利烏

E. J. Cook

U-li-man

ULLMANN & Co., J., Jewellers, Diamond

Merchants, Watchmakers Regine's

Buildings, Legation Street West; Teleph.

1471; Tel. Ad: Ullmann

R. Dreyfus, manager

厰學化料顏德聯

Lien-de-yen-liao-hua-hsua-chang

UNITED DYES AND CHEMICAL WORKS,

Aniline Dyes, Chemicals, Photographic Supplies-21, Gan Mien Hutung;

Teleph. 369 (East); Tel. Ad: Aniline

H. Spanier, manager

安保 Pao-am

UNION INSURANCE SOCIETY OF CANTON, LTD. (Incorporated in Hongkong)-4,

Mei Chia Hutung; Teleph. 3955 (East); Tel. Ad: Union

R. W. Paulden, branch manager

J. W. Y. Chang

P. Y. Sun

Agents

H. T. Shen

G. W. Frodsham & Co., Ld.

行油裕光

Kuang-yu-you-hong

VACUUM OIL Co., Illuminating and

Lubricating Oils-32, Piao-Peih Hutung

East; Tel. Ad: Vacuum

K. L. Li, representative

VARALDA & Co., Exchange, Stock, Share

and General Brokers-98, Morrison St.;

Teleph. 1522 (East); Tel. Ad: Varalda

會員委術技江子揚

YANGTZE RIVER COMMISSION-47, Pa Ta

Jen Hutung

Technical Committee-Yang Pao Ling (chairman), Chen Seih Li, H. van

der Veen, H. E. Hillman, E. C. Stocker, Shen Ping Huang and Chow Zian Yien

Chief Secretary-T. C. Shoung English Secy-Hollington K. Tong Secretary-H. C. Liu

TIENTSIN

津天 Tien-tsin

Tientsin-or the Ford of Heaven, according to the Chinese meaning of its name- may now well be called the commercial capital of North China. Situated at the junc- tion of the Grand Canal and the Pei Ho in Lat. 39 deg. 4 min. N., Long. 117 deg. 4 min. E. (approx.), it is some 80 miles distant from Peking by road and somewhat further by river. Railway connection with the capital was established in 1897. A road between the two places, 94 miles long, was completed towards the end of 1922, and communica- tion was further facilitated by the inauguration of a wireless telephone service on March 7th of that year. The expeditions of the Allies in 1858-61 greatly enhanced the importance of the city, as it then proved to be the military key of the capital and an excellent base. It was here on June 26th, 1858, that Lord Elgin signed the treaty which was to conclude the war, but which unhappily led to its prolongation. The famous temple in which the treaty was signed, about a mile distant from the West gate, was destroyed by British shells in July, 1900.

Tientsin owes its early importance to its location at the northern terminus of the Grand Canal, and its later development is mainly due to the opening up of North China to foreign trade, to improved railway communications with the Interior, and to the deepening of the Bar and the Hai Ho by the Hai Ho Conservancy Board. Before the advent of steamers, however, Tientsin had become a flourishing centre for junk traffic, and when the tribute rice no longer followed the Grand Canal route-owing to the shoaling of this ancient and celebrated waterway-it was sent to Tientsin in sea-going junks until comparatively recent years. It may be mentioned here that