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KIRIN

吉

Chi-lin

Kirin is the, Manchu name of the city.)

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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.

IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Rev. J. McWhirter

Dr. and Mrs. Wm. R. Sloan

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Dr. Emma M, Crooks

DIRECTORY..

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

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Miss Lily Dodds (nurse) :

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S. G. Mgr. Gaspais, Evêque titulaire

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R. P. Cubizolles, pro-vicaire

I. Lacqnois, superieur du seminaire L. Gibert A. Sagard

LUNGCHING TSUN

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.

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Trade on the whole was somewhat dull in the Lungchingtsun district in 1931, though political conditions, as, compared with those which so disturbed the district under the guise of communist movements in 1930, had improved greatly. Throughout the year there was evidence of a considerable depres- sion in local business and several shops and other establishments closed down completely. The volume of trade was distinctly lower, though this is not self-evident from the value table. Imports on a gold basis show of course an increase in value due to the low price of the silver in which values are expressed, and, on the other hand, though exports are down in value, the amount of produce actually exported during 1931 shows but little varia- tion from the figures for the previous year.

The value of the trade of the port coming under the coguisance of the Customs in 1931 was Hk. Tls. 5,489,036 as compared with Hk. Tls. 5,698,579 in 1930, Hk. Tls. 7,178,888 in 1929, and Hk. Tls. 8,106,729 in 1928. Tele-

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