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CHANGCHUN KIRIN LUNGCHINGTŞUN

MISSIONSES

DANISH LUTHERAN MISSION

Miss K. Thomsen

IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

Rev. A. Weir, B.A., and wife, B.A.

Miss A. Gardiner, B.Sc.

Miss D, Faulkner, M.B.

Rev. H. K. Johnston, B.A.,

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Miss Amy Calvert

SOEURS FRANCISCAINES, MISSIONNAIRES

DE MARIE

Soeur Franciscaines

SOUTH MANCHURIAN RAILWAY, District

Agency

K. Haneda

S. Hanai

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SOCONY-VACUUM CORPORATION Cable

Ad: Socony

Y. Tokmakoff

YAMATO HOTEL (South Manchurian Hote Co.)-Teleph. 8-351; Cable Ad: Yamato,

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KIRIN

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(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

Dr. Emma M. Crooks

Miss Lily Dodds (nurse)

W. W. Cline, (Y.M.C.A.)

DIRECTORY

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION

S. Exc. Mgr. Gaspais, Evêque titulaire

de Canope

R. P. Cubizolles, pro-vicaire

R. P. Lemaire, Cathedrale. R. P. Yn Séminaire

R. P. Duhart R. P. Lacquois

R. P. Darles

R. P. Beaudeaux

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.orn in

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