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LUNGCHINGTSUN

*Lung-ching-tsun

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 1927 was Hk. Tls. 9,420,810, as compared with Hk. Tls. 7,169,289 in 1926, Hk. Tls. 3,933,790 in 1925, and Hk. Tls. 4,647,450 in 1924. 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.

BANK OF CHOSEN

S. Shiozawa T. Itoh

DIRECTORY

CHINESE MARITIME CUSTOMS

Acting Commissioner-A. H. Forbes

(and at Hunchun)

Assistants-K. Negishi and Lai Tsu

Mou

Acting Assist. Tidesurveyor-C. Ohta Examiner-J. E. Jenkins

Tide waiters-Yun Kiang Hua, Ting

Yao chin and J. S. Dong

Local Watcher-Kim Shih Yeh

JAPANESE CONSULATE-GENERAL

Consul-General-Y. Suzuki Consul-G. Higashi

Vice-Consul-N. Ichikawa Chancellors-N. Teraoka, T. Tsuchiya,

K. Fujita and T. Ohya' Police Supt.-K. Aiba

HUNCHUN

春琿

Hunchun is derived from Manchu, meaning frontier, and is situated in lat. 24 deg. 25 min. 5 sec. N., long. 130 deg. 22 min. 10 sec. E. of Greenwich, on the right bank of the Hung Ch'i Ho, some 35 li from the Chino-Russian frontier and about 90 li distant from Novokiewsk. In 1714 a detachment of soldiers came here from Ninguta, and this may be regarded as the beginning of Hunchun, which was to be opened to trade, by treaty with Japan (Manchurian Convention), in 1905, but the Customs staff did not arrive before December, 1909. The surrounding districts are fairly fertile, and the mining possibilities (coal, gold, and copper) may, when taken in hand, prove of considerable value. The trade-by carts or mules-is with Korea and Japan. The Russian frontier is now closed to trade. The net value of the trade in 1927 was Hk. Tls. 2,363,231, as compared with Hk. Tls. 2,155,295 in 1926, Hk. Tls. 1,690,636 in 1925, and Hk. Tls.. 1,603,651 in 1924. The town (earthen walled) has a population of about 8,000 odd of whom 360 are Japanese and 900 Koreans. The main exports are beans, millet and timber; and the main imports: cotton piece goods, kerosene oil, fishery products, spirits of wine, sugar, matches and flour. Towards the end of 1921 an electric light plant was installed in the town by a Chinese concern.