CHANGCHUN
春長 Chang ch'un or Kwanchengtze
This town is at the junction of the South Manchuria (Japanese), Chinese Eastern (Russian), and Kirin-Changchun (Chinese) Railways. It comprises a Japanese railway town, foreign settlement, native town, and Russian railway town in the heart of large and fertile agricultural district. It enjoys a growing importance and prosperity and is termed "the key of Manchuria." The enormous quantity of staple products grown in the vast plain around is all marketed at, or distributed through, this town. Changchun is divided into four parts, commonly called the New Town, the Old Town, Sanfouti and the Russian Quarter. The New Town has been developed by the South Manchuria Railway Company and possesses macadamised roads, wide streets and many open spaces and gardens. The Old Town lies to the south of the New Town. Sanfouti, lies between the New Town and the Old Town and is being laid out by the Chinese authorities as a commercial quarter. The Russian quarter in the northernmost part of Changchun is mostly used as the residential quarter of the Russian military railway officials and employés.
DIRECTORY
BANK OF CHOSEN-12, Iwai-machi-3; Tel.
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S. Tsuboi, manager
K. Wada, sub-manager
BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO (CHINA) Co.,
LTD.
CHI TUNG CHANG Co., LTD., Importers, Exporters and Engineering-4, Umege-
cho
CHINESE GOVERNMENT SALT REVENUE
(Kihei Audit Office)—Tel. Ad: Salt Changchun
Acting Chinese Auditor-M. T. Hsieh Foreign Auditor-C. Lee
Chief Secretary-Wang Yung
Chief Accountant-W. C. Liu
Newchwang
Acting Assist. Auditor-Ma Shen
Harbin
Assistant Auditor-Chen Ning Hsiang
MISSIONS
IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
Rev. R. J. Gordon, M.A., M.B., & wife Rev. A. Weir, B.A., and wife, B.A.
Miss A. Gardiner, B.Sc.
Miss D. Sinton, M.B.
SOEURS FRANCISCAINES, MISSIONNAIRES
DE MARIE
Soeur Franciscaines
Mère Marie de Nazzarei
Mère Marie Narcyzadu, s.c. Mère Marie Therese-Emilie Soeur Marie de Ste. Fare
Soeur Marie de St. Sixte Soeur Marie Sinforiana Soeur Marie Sakramentu
POST OFFICE
Acting Deputy Postal Commissioner
-Wu Fao
Secretary-Chen Hung-shu
Towtaokow Sub-Office
Postmaster- Fong Sen Kai
Mei foo
STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK-Tel.
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YAMATO HOTEL (South Manchurian Hotel
Co.)--Teleph. 8-351; Tel. Ad: Yamato
YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD.-Tel. Ad:
Shokin
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