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Agencies

AMOY-SWATOW

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

UNIVERSITY OF AMOY

Officers of the University of Amoy

Tan Kah Kee, founder and trustee

Tan Ch'ing Hsien, trustee

Lim Boon Keng, trustee and president

Jennings P. Chu, University secy.

C. C. Liau, treasurer

S. G. Su, dean of College of Arts

T. G. Djang, do. Science

Silwing P. C. Au, do. Law

K. T. Sen,

T. H. Chen,

do. Education

do. Commerce

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E. S. Sy, principal of the Senior

High School

Cheng Shih Tsa, auditor

Sun Kuo Tung, hon. auditor

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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

SWATOW

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 climate of Swatow is very salubrious. The town, however, has suffered from typhoons on many occasions. Many thousands of lives were lost and very extensive damage to shipping and property was caused by one of these terrible storms which