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SHANGHAI-SOOCHOW

ZEE Wo & Co., Dealers in Platinum, Gold

and Silver Wares, etc.-121, Honan Rd.

達瑞 Zeh dah

ZEHNTNER, W. (Representing Leonard Plews, Stockdale & Co., Ld., Manchester; Heymann & Alexander, Ld., Bradford) -29, Szechuen Road; Teleph. Cent. 3082; Tel, Ad: Plewstock

ZELLER, M. (Represeting F. Hoffmann-La Roohe & Co., Ld., Basle, Switzerland), Manufacturers of Chemicals and Patent Medicines-35, Jinkee Rd.; P.O. Box 1386

林瑞 Zee ling

ZELLERBACH PAPER Co., Paper and Board

Manufacturers-13, Nanking Road

Jack E. Ellis, representative

館書印灣山土

Tou se we su kuan

ZI-KA-WEI PRESS-Teleph. West 331 Rev. H. Allain, S.J., director

X. Coupe, S.J. (printing office)

美滋

Tse mei

ZIMMERMAN Co., H. J., Import-Export-

17, Peking Road

A. S. Grimpel, manager

美齊

Tsi mei

ZIMMERMAN, W. I., General Merchant

and Manufacturers' Representative-21 Nanking Road

Agents for

Liptons, Ld., London. Provisions. Brocard & Co., Paris. Perfume

and Soaps

行車大潤

Ziang kee see szu zayi

ZUNG DAH CYCLE Co., Dealers in all kind of Bicycles Motorcycles, Rubber Tyres

etc.-180, Avenue Edward VII

Doo Zung Cha, manager

ZUNG, Z. D., Representing A. Mosley

Son, Shipley (Yorkshire), Manufacturer and Exporters of Textile Fabrics-Ch kiang Industrial Building, 4, Kiangs Road; Teleph. Cent. 4830; P.O. Box 1211 Tel. Ad: Trustfully

SOOCHOW

州蘇 Sú-chau

Soochow, until 1912 the capital of the province of Kiangsu, lies about 80 miles we by water and 54 by rail and a little north of Shanghai, with which it is connected I excellent inland water-ways. The Shanghai-Nanking Railway supplies still bett connection. The city is a rectangle, its length from north to south being three and half miles and its width from east to west two and a half, the total circumferen being about 10 miles. It lies not far from the eastern shore of the great Taihu la Past its walls runs the southern section of the Grand Canal, which joins Hangchow Chinkiang; and in every direction spread creeks or canals, affording easy communi- tion with the numerous towns in the surrounding country. It is an important man. facturing centre, with a population of nearly 500,000. Its two chief manufactures satins and silk embroideries of various kinds. In addition, it sends out silk goop linen and cotton fabrics, paper, lacquerware, and articles in iron, ivory, wood, hopp and glass, and rape seed. Since the opening of the port, manufactures on forei principles have been introduced, and there are now three silk filatures, one cotto mill, one match factory, one cardboard factory, and a brick and tile factory. There one electric light company.

Before the Taiping rebellion Soochow shared with Hangchow the reputation being the finest city in China, but it was almost entirely destroyed by the reb who captured it on 25th May, 1860. Its recovery by Major (afterwards Genet Gordon on 27th Nov., 1863, was the first, effective blow to the rebellion. Since t disastrous period it has recovered itself greatly and is once more populous flourishing, though it has not yet attained to its former pitch of prosperity. It declared open to foreign trade on the 26th September, 1896, under the provisi