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TIENTSIN-TAKU

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YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK

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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONS

(See Associations)

YOUNG MEN'S OPTICAL Co.-Y.M.C.A

Building; Teleph. 50583

James Pan, manager

YU TSIN TANNERY, LTD.-64, Ex-German

Bund; Teleph. 31470; Cable Ad: Yutsin

S. C. Sze, general manager

Yu YUAN COTTON SPINNING: AND WEAVING Co., LTD. Hsiao-liu-chwang, Teleph. .31716

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YUE NAN YUNG, Importers of General Merchandise 306, Victoria Road;Teleph. 31400; Cable Ad: Yuenanyung li

Nan, H. S. Yue (Yue Nan Yung) S. H. C. Yue, manager

W. S. Yuet C:L.W: D. Yue::

T. Y. Kao Feng Ting C. S. Yue

YUNG HSING TRADING CORPORATION-

65, Rue de France; Telephs. 31165 and 33947; Cable Ad: Yhtcorp

S. L. Chen, managing director

W. P. Han, manager

ZIMMERMAN & Co., D. I. (Representatives of W. I. Zimmerman Co., of Shanghai)- 29, Victoria Terrace; Cable Ad: Zimme

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TAKU

沽 大 Ta-ku

There are no clearly defined anchorages but steamers arriving off the bar at low ade must anchor outside the bar while steamers from Tientsin proceeding to sea may tinchor anywhere in the river clear of the shipping channel,

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The village of Taku is of inconsiderable size and contains few shops and no buildings' of interest. About a mile below the village in a direct line lie the Old Southern and Central Fort, while on the northern bank of the river lies the Northern Fort. All are completely demolished and now present the appearance of mounds of earth, though periodical whitewashing of the surface facing seaward makes them serve a useful modern purpose an aid to navigation. The railway from the neighbouring town of Tangku, on the Northern Bank of the river, to Tientsin was completed in 1888.

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Between the signal station and Messrs. Butterfield & Swire wharf on the northern large industry

bank is situated “Cockle Village so called because of the S

for the boiling and drying of shellfish such as cockles, crabs, clams, etc., that is carried on there. When dried, these shellfish are exported by steamer to Shanghai and Canton principally, whence they are sent inland for consumption. This is Taku's greatest asset, as the country round about for some distance is covered with salt-pans and salt heaps, which render the country unfit for cultivation.

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The lights and aids to navigation are under the control of the Maritime Customs, as well as the up-to-date signal station, completed in 1920, to fuse 8' symbols by day and electric light by night whereby depths in the bar-channel are recorded from 8 feet up to 25 feet. The Hai Ho Conservancy Commission maintain the navigable. depth of the bar by means of a suction dredger with a self-contained hopper, of 500 c.m. capacity. The navigable depth of the bar varies in accordance with the extent of the silt evacuated by the river after the freshet seasons. The existing channel has been greatly improved in recent years; but, as it was decided that it would never prove entirely successful owing to the set-of-the current, the Hai-Ho Conservancy Commission constructed a new bar channel in the direction of the set of the tide. The completion of this work in 1929, restored the Hai-Ho to a depth admitting the passage of coasting steamers from Tientsin, though unfortunately the construction of the new channel caused serious loss of life in the province.