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ANTUNG-DAIREN

Assistants-Y. Matsunaga, Pu Lü Chung, H. T. Meinich, Ong Yah Foo, Wang Wen Chu, Yuan Fu- ch'ang and Dunn Shieh Shen Medical Officers-Nishikawa and Wen

Tao-shan

Tidesurveyor and Harbour Master—

W. Nash

Assist. T'surveyor-H. Connaughton Boat Officers R. Mizutani and W.

Jenkins

Examiners-H. P. Singer, W. Fili- povich, P. S. Dsenis, H. Shirai, W. O'Reilly, T. Araki, T. Hamada, R. Ferreira, H. A., Thalberg, N. Pedder, K. Yamada and S. G. Jidkoff Tidewaiters B.. K. Kim, S. Senta, K. Yoshida, T. Kishimoto, K. Hashitomi, P. K. Chung, A. Goto and M. Nagaoka

DANISH LUTHERAN MISSION

Rev. and Mrs. J. Vyff

Dr. and Mrs. Pedersen

Miss K. Gormsen

Rev. and Mrs. Aagaard-Poulsen (Pi-

ts'ai-kou)

Dr. Marie Nielsen Kai Olesen

Mr. and Mrs. P. H. Bagoe

Miss K. Nielsen | Miss M. Stauns

DANISH MISSION HOSPITAL

Dr. P. N. Pedersen, F.R.C.S. Dr. Marie Nielsen

A. Stauns

MITSUI BUSSAN KAISHA, General Mer-

chants

POST OFFICE

1st Class Postmaster-Wong Chi Sheng

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怡

Yi Loong

SHAW, GEO. L., Importer and Exporter,

Agent-

Steamship and Insurance

Telephs. Chinese 4 and Japanese 39;

Tel. Ad: Shaw

Geo. L. Shaw

A. A. Mardas | S. G. Shaw

WOLTER & Co., CARL, Piece-Goods and

General Merchants

YALU TIMBER CO.

DAIREN

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Dairen (Dalny), the Southern terminus of the South Manchuria Railway, is a commercial port in the Southern corner of the Liaotung Peninsula, Lat. 38° 55′ 44′′ N. and Long. 121° 37′ 7′′ E. When Russia leased the place in 1898 it was only an inconsider- able fishing village. Russia intended to develop Dairen as a commercial port and had made some progress when the Russo-Japanese war broke out. But what the Japanese inherited was a mere nucleus of the present city, namely the section north of the rail- way tracks which to-day forms but a small corner of the city. South of the tracks, where the main part of present-day Dairen stands, was but an area of rough ground, with hills and ponds, which required a vast amount of grading and filling. The plans the Russians formed were gradually much improved upon, and the Japanese, by dint of great exertions, have brought a thoroughly western civilization here on a scale far more comprehensive than anything that has been accomplished in any other part of China. The health of the locality is exceptionally good. The highest temperature registered in summer is 30° C. (86°F.), and the cold winter season is short and invigorating.

The harbour works had been less than half completed by the Russians. Some work had been done on the eastern half, and only some blocks dumped for the eastern breakwater. Only two wharves had been completed; the depth of the harbour ranging from 17 to 28 feet, with only 18 feet of water at the main wharf basin. Since the Japanese occupation, the S.M.R. Co. has done much in the extension of harbour facilities and their actual management, introducing every modern appliance for speedy and commodious cargo handling and watering and coaling of vessels. To-day the com- bined length of the breakwaters is 13,436 feet, and they are 3 or 5 feet above the highest tide. The deep water area inside the breakwater is 2,935,003 sq. metres.