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LUNGCHINGTSUN-HUNCHUN

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Telephone and telegraph line, in addition to the Chinese telegraph and tele- phone lines, connect Lungchingtsun with the neighbouring marts of Yenki, Towtaokow and Hunchun A handsome new building for the Bank of Chosen was completed in 1923, and a particularly fine hew Japanese Consulate

in 1925.

BANK OF CHOSEN

S. Shiozawa

T. Itoh

JAPANESE CONSULATE

Consul-General-K. Nagai

DIRECTORY

Consuls-I. Shoji and S. Takiyama Vice-Consul-H. Sugiura Chancellors-H. Yoneda, G. Hamada, S. Kato, D. Onoki and K. Komori Police Supt. C, Akutagawa, (actg.) ́

HUNCHUN

春琿

Hunchun is derived from Manchu, meaning frontier, and is situated in lat. 24 deg. 25 min. 5 sec. N., long. 130 deg. 22 min. 10 sec. E. of Greenwich, on the right bank of the Hung Ch'i Ho, some 35 li from the Chino-Russian frontier and about 90 li distant from Novokiewsk. In 1714 a detachment of soldiers came here from Ninguta, and this may be regarded as the beginning of Hunchun, which was to be opened to trade, by treaty with Japan (Manchurian Convention), in 1905, but the Customs staff did not arrive before December, 1909. Towards the end of 1921 an electric light plant was installed in the town by a Chinese concern: The surrounding districts are fairly fertile, and the mining possibilities: (coal, gold, and copper) may, when taken in hand, prove of considerable value.

The town (earthen walled) has a population of 37,535 Chinese in addition to whom are some 1,300 Japanese and Koreans. The main exports are beans, millet and timber; and the main imports: cotton piece goods, kerosene oil, fishery products, spirits of wine, sugar, matches and flour. Rapid progress is being made in the modernisation of the town of Hunchun. The standard-gauge railway from Yuki, the port of entry and shipment for the district, is opened to traffic as far north as Shuiashan. The projected extension of this important line to Kunju should be of very great significance in the future development of the Hunchun area.

JAPANESE CONSULATE

DIRECTORY

(at

Chancellor S. Takenaka

Chief of Police-K. Hasegawa Ton-tao-kon Branch:

Chief of Branch-M. Matsubara

Chief of Police S. Jono

Consul-General — K. Okada

Lungchingtsun)

Chief of the Branch Office of Con-

sulate General K. Moori

Chief of Police-H. Shoji

Chutzukai Branch:

Vice Consul-T. Tamaka

Pai-tsao-Kon Branch:

Chief of Branch-T. Horiuchi

Chief of Police-K. Akashi

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