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KIRIN

林吉 Chi-lin

(Kirin is the Manchu name of the city.)

Kirin, the capital of the province of the same name on the Sungari river, is 80 miles from Changchun, with which it is connected by railway. It is one of the most prosperous towns in Manchuria, and, having been rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1911, possesses many fine buildings. It is the distributing centre for the inexhaustible supplies of timber from the neighbouring regions.

BANK OF CHOSEN

BRITISH CONSULATE

Consul-General

DIRECTORY

F. E. Wilkinson,

C.M.G. (residing at Mukden)

CHINESE POST OFFICE (First Class Office)

IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Rev. J. McWhirter

Dr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Sloan Dr. Emma M, Crooks

Miss M. Hilton

Rev. and Mrs. T. Ralph Morton Miss Lily Dodds (nurse)

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

S. G. Mgr. Gaspais, Evêque titulaire

de Canope

R. P. Cubizolles, pro-vicaire I. Lacquois, superieur du seminaire L. Gibert A. Sagard

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK

LUNGCHINGTSUN

#Lung-ching-tṣun

Lungchingtsun (Dragon Well Village), has a population of about 15,000 inhabitants, composed of about 11,000 Koreans, 3,000 Chinese, and 1,000 Japanese. Situated in a fertile plain, its main exports are: beans, millet and timber. There are promising mining possibilities (coal, copper, silver, and gold) waiting development. The trade- by light railway to Kainei-is with Korea and Japan. The principal imports are cotton piece goods, sugar, Japanese sundries, paper, kerosene oil, metals, fishery products. The value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Customs in 1926 was Hk. Tls. 7,169,289, as compared with Hk. Tls. 3,933,790 in 1925, Hk. Tls. 4,647,450 in 1924, and Hk. Tls. 5,025,060 in 1923. Telephone and telegraph lines, in addition to the Chinese telegraph and telephone lines, connect Lungchingtsun with the neighbour- ing marts of Yenki, Towtaokow and Hunchun. A handsome new building for the Bank of Chosen was completed in 1923, and a particularly fine new Japanese Consulate- General in 1925.

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