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CHEMULPO

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The steamers of the Nippon Yusen Kaisha and Osaka Shosen Kaisha call regularly and have the bulk of the trade and passenger communication with Japan, and, in the case of the former, with North China. The Chosen Yusen Kaisha maintains a regular service between the port and Dairen, touching at Tsingtao. There is also a regular weekly service maintained between Chemulpo and Weihaiwei, Chefoo, and Dairen.

There are telegraphic communications with China (overland) and with Japan, and a powerful wireless has been established by the Government at Ryuzan suburb of Seoul,

Every effort is being made by the Government-General to make Chemulpo the principal port in Chosen for the distribution of through freight and passengers to all parts of the country. Railway lines have been and are being extended to the N.W. and N.E. borders, with Seoul as the centre, and all the ports around the coast are being connected up with the trunk lines.

Tourists to the famous Diamond Mountains are greatly on the increase, and the Cunard liners Laconia, Franconia and Carinthia with Round-the-world Tourists called at Chemulpo in 1926, also the Hamburg-Amerika liner Resolute.

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