Directory_and_Chronicle_1930 — Page 743

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is an excellent hotel here, managed by the South Manchuria Hotel Company and also a number of bungalows which may be hired by visitors. Another suburban line runs to Rokotan, a famous summer resort commanding glorious scenery. A motor-car road, runs to Star Beach, and a tract of land along this, measuring about 85 acres, has been levelled and laid out. The construction of a new road, 44 kilometres in length, connecting Dairen and Port Arthur was commenced in 1921 on three sections simul- taneously, and was completed in July, 1924.

The town of Dairen, which has been expanding rapidly owing to business prosperity and increase of population, is lighted by electricity and gas and has ample telephone facilities. The electric power-house, when completed in 1911, had a capa- city of 4,500 kilowatts. This was increased in 1921 to 6,000 kws., and a second house with 10,000 kws. power was added in June, 1923, the total now being 16,000 kws. The town has macadamized lined roads with rows of shady trees, and is well equipped with waterworks, drainage and sewage systems. With the growth of trade, more particularly in Manchurian beans, a number of influential business houses, Japanese, Chinese and foreign, have established themselves at the port. The foreign and Japanese communities in April, 1909, organized and opened the Dairen Club. A Gun Club, Golf Club, and Marine Association are among the other institutions of the port. Of places for public amusement, the so-called Electric Park, designed on an up-to-date plan and con- taining all devices for recreation, forms the chief attraction. The Chinese quarter, situated on the western fringe of the city, has also grown considerably. A new Railway Hospital, which has recently been constructed by the Railway Company deserves special inention owing partly to its size and partly to the excellence of its equipment. This hospital affords accommodation for 590 patients and treats more than 800 out patients of all nationalities on an average every day.

A direct steamship service is maintained every third day by the Dairen Steam- ship Company between Dairen and Shanghai, one outward bound steamer and one homeward bound steamer calling at Tsingtao twice a week, by which means communication is obtained between Shanghai and the trans-Siberian route to Europe. Regular and "half-regular" steamship services are maintained to and from all the important ports of Japan, U.S.A., Europe, China and Chosen (Korea), etc. Shanghai can be reached in 42 hours, Chemulpo in 24 hours, and Moji and Nagasaki in about 48 hours.

In 1928 the net value of the trade of Dairen was Hk. Tls. 392,076.219, as compared with Hk. Tls. 336,372,493 in 1927, Hk. Tls. 332,078,468 in 1926, Hk. Tls. 273,709,962 in 1925, and Hk. Tls. 240,672,562 in 1924. In the autumn of 1928 the population of Dairen consisted of 90,003 Japanese, 854 Koreans, 250,091 Chinese, and 496 foreigners, making a total of 341,444.

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