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古太

Tai-koo

YOCHOW-SHASI

DIRECTORY

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ltd.)-Agent at Chengling (port

of Yochow)

Yang Yan Poo, agent

Wong Sui Che, shipping clerk

關州岳

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Revenue Department

Commissioner-J. Nolasco

Assistant-Chiao Ju Yung

Clerks-Hong Tso Yuen, Ling Hoon

Chee, Yao Ying Yuan and Chang Hsiao-hsun (Chienhsi)

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master-

W. E. Clark

Tidewaiters-P. W. Coxall, Oliver Kwang Miao, Li Ko-ming and Chen Chih En

Marine Department

Assist. River Inspector-W. D. Fraser Actg. Dist. River Inspectors-W. W.

Thornely and G. W. Smith

River Officer-H. C. S. C. Selby

Actg. do.

-S. G. Loraine-Grews

Clerk-King Wen Kwai

Tracer-Ren Shuen En

司公運轉萍冶漢

HAN YEH PING TRANSPORTATION Co.

Yang Peh Ying, agent

Tah Chün-ching, shipping clerk

和怡 E-wo

JARDINE MATHESON & Co., LTD.

Cheng Sung Tsun, agent

司公清日

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA (Japan-China

S.S. Co.)

Wang Shan-chen, agent

李美 Mei-foo

STANDARD OIL Co, OF NEW YORK

J. J. Robertson, agent

Ngan Tsen Chi and Wong Koo

Yang, clerks

SHASI

Sha-si·

:

Shasi (the "market on the sands") is one of the ports opened to foreign trade under the Japanese Treaty of 1895, the official declaration of the opening being dated the 1st October, 1896. The port is about 85 miles below Ichang and is situated at the crossing point of two most important routes of commerce in Central China, namely, from east to west and from north to south and vice versa. It is reclaimed from the river and the sea by a magnificent system of dykes and canals, and is “a monu- ment of ancient commerce, and a witness to native perseverance and engineering skill." The district suffers periodically from the flooding of the Yangtsze. In July, 1908, the river rose to 30 ft. 9 inches, and caused the destruction of all the earlier summer crops; in 1917 it rose to the record height of 31 ft. 9 ins., again, on July 21st, 1919, it rose to 31 ft. 6 ins., and on July 16th, 1921, it reached the record height of 33 ft. 4 ins., which was 5 ft. 4 ins. above the level of the Bund. The general commerce of the port has increased yearly since the Revolution, despite the adverse influence of the civil war during the past five or six years. The population, which is steadily increasing, was estimated at 190,500 by the District Magistrate of the Kiangling-hsien at the end of 1925. The floating population, of which no account is kept, may be estimated at 10,000 more. A considerable amount of washing for gold is done between Shasi and Hosueh, chiefly on the Tukkechow. Formerly Shasi was an important distributing centre, but the opening of Ichang to foreign trade diverted much of the traffic to the last-named port. It was hoped that when Shasi itself was opened it would regain its importance as a point of distribution, but the experience now gained shows that

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