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A noteworthy feature of 1907 was the connection of Changteh by steamer during the high-water season-June to October-the resulting trade being valued at Tls. 617,000. Connection with Changteh is now maintained practically throughout the year by steamers of the river type, and tugs and lighters. Buoys and lights were established in 1907 to mark the channel across the lake. The difficulties and risks of this route are considerable, and it is probable that it will be found advisable to adopt the somewhat longer route via Lulintan; on account of the sharp bends of the River Yuan in its lower reaches, specially adapted steamers will probably have to be used. The question of making Changtel an open port" was considered in 1906 and again taken up in the spring of 1915, and Chinese officials visited the place to enquire into the conditions, but it still remains open only to vessels under Inland Water Steam Navigation rules. In 1920, a new organization for the technical control of the Middle Yangtsze Aids to Navigation and channels was instituted by the Customs.

The Standard Oil Company of New York has recently established an oil installa- tion at a point about two miles below the Settlement. It has erected two tanks and contemplates erecting four more. The first oil tanker direct from California arrived here during the high water season of 1926. This installation will be the centre of distribution for the upper Yangtsze and the "Lake Ports," such as Changteh, Yiyang and Tsingshih. At the moment of writing, all oil has been evacuated from the tanks owing to the disturbed political condition,

古太 Tai-lcoo

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

Assistant-in-Charge-Chiao Ju Yung

Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master-Oliver K. Miao

Tidewaiters Chen Chili En and

Thomas L. Yih

Marine Department

Assist. River Inspr.-G.R.G.Worcester

River Officer-O. A. Lundberg

司公運轉萍冶漢

HAN YEH PING TRANSPORTATION Co.

Yang Peh Ying, agent

Tah Chün-ching, shipping clerk

Fu E-wo 和怡

JARDINE MATHESON & Co., Ltd.

Cheng Sung Tsun, agent

司公清日

(Japan-China

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA

S.S. Co.)

李美 Mei-foo

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

SHASI

市沙 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 monument 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