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KIRIN

林 吉 Ch'i-lin

(Kirin is the Manchu name of the city.)

Kirin, the capital of the province of the same name on the Sungari river, is 80 miles from Changchun, with which it is connected by railway. It is one of the most prosperous towns in Manchuria, and, having been rebuilt after a disastrous fire in 1911, possesses many fine buildings. It is the distributing centre for the inexhaustible supplies of timber from the neighbouring regions.

BRITISH CONSULATE

DIRECTORY

Consul-General A. E. Eastes (resi-

ding at Mukden)

IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Rev. J. McWhirter

Dr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Sloan

Dr. Emma M, Crooks

Miss Lily Dodds (nurse)

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

S. G. Mgr. Gaspais, Evêque titulaire

⚫ de Canope

R. P. Cubizolles, pro-vicaire

I. Lacquois, superieur du seminaire L. Gibert

A. Sagard

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK

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LUNGCHINGTSUN

村井龍

Lung-ching-tsun

Lungchingtsun (Dragon Well Village), has a population of about 15,000 inhabitants, composed of about 11,000 Koreans, 3,000 Chinese, and 1,000 Japanese. Situated in a fertile plain, its main exports are: beans, millet and timber. There are promising mining possibilities (coal, copper, silver, and gold) waiting development. The trade- by light railway to Kainei-is with Korea and Japan. The principal imports are cotton piece goods, sugar, Japanese sundries, paper, kerosene oil, metals, fishery products. The spring of 1929 was much delayed, and cold winds and rain retarded work in the fields. The summer was wet, and there was a slight recurrence of the previous year's floods. The autumn and the early part of the winter, however, were very mild, facilitating the gathering of an excellent harvest. Trade generally did not recover from the disastrous floods of the previous year, while the increasing use of the Kirin-Tunhua Railway as a means of transporting goods into this district, account for a heavy fall in the value of the import trade. This was further increased by the can- cellation from the 1st February of the one-third reduction of tariff rates on goods crossing the Sino-Korean frontier. An interesting feature of the import trade was the arrival of Chinese goods via Korea from Chefoo, Shanghai, and Dairen under duty-paid certificates, such goods no longer losing their native status by passage through foreign territory. On the whole, communications were well maintained throughout the year, and the Tien-T'u Railway operated uninterruptedly. Carts and pack-animals as a means of transport are disappearing rapidly owing to railway competition. Scarcity of inoney, combined with higher prices due to higher tariffs, effectively restricted the market in foreign imports. The splendid harvest of the autumn turned the bleak out- look for exports into a fairly successful year, and the last three months surpassed all expectations. Farmers, however, have netted reasonable profits, but the marketing of the bean crop is reported not to have been so successful a venture for the local dealer.