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AMOY-SWATOW

TEO KIAN HUAT Co. (Established 1900), General Merchants, Commission Agents,

Importers and Exporters-Tel. Ad:

Heapcheong; Codes: Bentley's and A.B.C. 5th edn.

Teo Kian Huat, sole proprietor

Teo Nai Chong, manager

Teo Nai Kok, assist. manager

Pung Chun Kheng, compradore

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Co., THE, Texaco

TEXAS

Products-Tel. Ad: Texaco

Petroleum

J. M. Hansen, district manager

Lei Shi Seng, inspector

TRADERS Co., General Importers and

Shipping and Insurance Agents

Teleph. 497; P.O. Box 18; Tel. Ad: Trade; Codes: Acme, Bentley's, A.B.C. 5th and 6th edns. and Private

Agencies

Norddeutscher Lloyd, Bremen

Batavia Sea & Fire Insce. Co., Ld.

Holland Assurance Society

"Deutz" Engines

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TUNG WEN INSTITUTE

UNION TRADING Co., THE, Commission

Merchant, Importer, Agents, etc.-

Kulangsu; Tel. Ad: Union

Benedict C. Ong, managing partner

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WHITFIELD & Co., P. S., Importers, Ex-

porters and General Merchants-Kang-

Ah-Khau Street; Tel. Ad: Field; Codes:

A.B.C. 5th edn. and Bentley's

H. M. Wong, assist. manager

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YEO SWEE SWAN & Co., Merchants and Commission Agents-Tel. Ad: Chipkee Yeo Swee Swan, partner and gen. mgr. Yeo Tain Oak, attorney and manager

SWATO W

頭汕 Shan-tau

Swatow, which was first thrown open to foreigners by the Treaty of Tientsin, is situated at the mouth of the river Han, near the eastern border of the Kwangtung. province, in lat. 23 deg. 20 min. 43 sec. N., and long. 116 deg. 39 min. 3. sec. E. It is the shipping port for the city of Cha'o-chow-fu (officially re-named Cha'o-an-hsien by the Republic), 25 miles inland, and Sam-Ho-Pa, forty miles farther up the river.

Swatow is built on the northern bank of the Han, which forms part of an alluvial plain through which the branches of the river flow. The shore on the opposite side is bold and striking, the hills stretching away to the coast and forming what is known to sea-going people as the "Cape of Good Hope." Pagoda Hill rises at the opposite side; and in a direct line from this lies the large island of Namoa.

The first foreign trading depôt in this locality was inaugurated by Bradley & Co. in 1855 at Namoa, where vessels used to anchor, but it was subsequently removed to Double Island, which is situated just inside the river and is four miles from Swatow. Foreigners here made themselves notorious in the early years of the settlement by the kidnapping of coolies, and so strong was the feeling shown against them by the natives that no foreigner was safe far from Double Island, while they were strictly forbidden to enter Swatow, and it was not until 1861 that they could do so. In 1862 the lease of a piece of land was applied for and granted to the British Government on the north bank of the river about a mile from Swatow, but so strong were the demonstrations of the populace against it that the matter fell through. Foreign residences, however, commenced to spring up here and there, and many of them are consequently some- what scattered, though the majority are in or near the town of Swatow. The yearly increasing traffic of the port led to much overcrowding on the narrow strip of land on