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Miss M. J. Pirie

Miss C. V. Vipont

Miss H. D. Wilson

ICHANG-CHUNGKING

會德路道音福

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN MISSION

Elmer H. Thode and wife

E. N. Seltz

堂主天 Tien choo tang

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

Rt. Rev. T. Jans, bishop of Rhosia

apost. vicar

Rev. Fr. A. Timmers

SWEDISH MISSIONARY SOCIETY

Miss I. Nordkvist

Rev. F. A. Wennborg

NISSHIN KISEN KAISHA-Tel. Ad: Nissi-

kisen

T. Yamada

局

等

昌宜

I chang í teng yu chu

POST OFFICE-Tel. Ad: Postmaster

Deputy Postal Commissioner - in

charge-Tsang Yuk Chee

SOCIETE FRANCAISE DU HAUT YANG TSE-

Tel. Ad: Chiris

J. Dagorne, manager

Mei foo

Standard OIL CO. OF NEW YORK

J. L. Poole

UNION FRANCO-CHINOISE DE NAVIGATION

C. C. Chiris, general manager

J. Dagorne, agent

YANGTSZE RAPID STEAMSHIP Co. (Fed. Inc. U.S.A.)-12, The Bund, Rm. 323; Tel. Ad: Rapidco

Lansing Hoyt, president and general

manager (Shanghai)

H. E. Case, assist. genl. mgr. (Ichang R. Brown chief accountant (Shanghai) Capt. J. Rosenberg, marine supt. do.

Capt. Jos. Miclo, marine supt. (Ichang) R. Reed, assist. accountant do.

J. H. Schwer (Chungking office)

Capts.-W. Tornroth, J. Anderson, F. D. Harris, C. Opperman, E. Anderson, E. Smith, I. Williams Mates-F. J. Fikerment, W. Heikel

CHUNGKING

慶 重 Chung-king

The city of Chungking, situated in lat. 29 deg. 33 min. 56 sec. N., long. 106 deg. 30 min. E., may well be described as not only the commercial capital of Szechuen but of the whole of Western China. The foreign import trade centres here, and is then distributed by a smaller class of trading junks up the various rivers of the province.

The city occupies the end of a high and rocky bluff forming a peninsula, at the junction of the river Kia-ling with the Yangtsze, 1,400 miles from the mouth of the latter. The principal streets of the city, in which are many fine shops, are on the side of the Yangtsze, while a new malu outside the Tung Yuan city gate was com- pleted for a length of a little over two miles and opened to traffic in July 1929. The city is surrounded by a crenelated stone wall in good repair, which is some five miles in circumference, pierced with nine gates. This wall was built in 1761, replacing an older one. Chungking is now electrically lighted, a native company with an authorised capital of $300,000 having been formed for that purpose. climate of Chungking is depressing, the summer being hot and damp, the winters raw and chilly, with thick fogs from November to March. Spring and Autumn can indeed hardly be said to exist. The ordinary rise of the river is about 75 feet; on 6th August, 1898, it rose to 101 ft., on 11th August, 1905, to 108 ft., on 22nd

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