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明德

Teh-ming

HANKOW-YOCHOW

WAGONS LITS TERMINUS HOTEL-Tel. Ad:

Terminus

司公司螢 Wei-sze

WEEKS & Co., LTD., Drapers, Outfitters, Milliners, Cabinet Makers, Complete House Furnishers and Decorators-Tel.

Ad: Weeks; Codes: A.B.C. 5th and 6th edns.

G. A. Falconer, manager

J. Malaya

A

Weyloo Kung-sze

WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & Co., LTD., Drapers, Outfitters, Glass and China Merchants, Importers of Boots and Shoes, etc.- Special District Administration; Teleph. 1379; Tel. Ad: Warfield

U. Verde

W. Hawkins, manager

E. G. Vincent F. Robinson

Mrs. O. A. Volkoff

行銀金正濱横

Heng-pin-cheng-chin-yin-hang

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK-13,

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

Young Brothers Trading Co., Ex-

porters, Wood Oil Specialists-British

Concession; Tel. Ad: Yangbrosco

T. S. Yang, managing director

C. C. Yang, director

Li Jui, manager

會年青教督基漢武

Wuhan Chitu-chiao Ching-nien-hui

YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF

WUHAN-Tel. Ad: Flamingo; Codes:

Missions C.I.M., Western Union

General Secretary-Rev. T. K. Hu Associate do. —A. M. Guttery

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 Chinshih, 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.

The province is rich in many forms of wealth, though the inhabitants say it consists of "three parts mountain, six water, and one arable soil." One of the main staples is rice, of which nearly a million piculs are sent out of the province to Húpeh and Kueichow in an average year. The Hunan tea sent to Hankow amounts to about 600,000 half-chests a year. The timber passing down from Changteh is valued officially at six million taels a year, and is probably worth more. It is largely soft wood-merely poles. In the opinion of old residents the volume seems to be decreasing, as the rafts are, generally speaking, of smaller dimensions than in former years. This is only natural when the constant drain and the existing disregard of the rules of afforestation in China are considered.

There is also a large production of cotton. The mountain districts contain extensive fields of coal, both anthracite and bituminous; iron, also, is known to exist. Sulphur, antimony, nickel, and other minerals are even now exported, and great possibilities