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KIRIN

林吉

Chi-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

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)

DIRECTORY

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

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. Political conditions throughout the Lungchingtsun district during. the year 1930 were not conducive to trade. Koreans form the bulk of the population of the Chicntao district, often regarded as Korea Irredenta, and it is upon these Koreans as tillers of the soil and consumers of imported goods. that the prosperity of this territory largely depends. So-called Korean Com- munists and delegates of the Korean Independence Party who were reported to have arrived from Sibeira and the Harbin district have, throughout the year, systematically carried out a policy of intimidation, extortion, and murder. Outrages and incidents of a serious nature were of constant occur- rence, and the Japanese authorities, in spite of Chinese opposition, increased their police patrols both in scope and number, culminating in a serious clash between the Chinese military and a Japanese police patrol. On the settlement locally of this incident the police from Korea were withdrawn and replaced largely by Japanese consular gendarmerie, but, despite the vigilance of both Chinese and Japanese authorities, outrage and threats continued unabated. After the autumn crops had been harvested numerous cases of extortion and incendiarism were reported, and the country-people, in fear of their lives,.