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SHANGHAI-SOOCHOW

ZIEH FAH LAND AND ESTATE INVEST- MENT Co.-25, Rue Chu Pao San; Teleph. 83751

ZIK-KA-WEI CHURCH-(See Churches)

ZIK-KA-WEI

Educational)

IGNATIUS COLLEGE (See

ZIK-KA-WEI TOU SE WE ORPHANAGE-

-(See Educational)

美齊 Tsi mei

ZIMMERMAN Co., W. I., General Merchants and Manufacturers' Representatives-53,

Szechuen Road; Teleph. 13233; Cable Ad: Zimmerman

A383

ZOIN TRADING Co.-125, Peking Road;

Teleph. 91687

ZOONG SING COTTON MILLS, LTD.-

North Soochow Creek; Teleph. 27526

ZUNG CHING & SONS-242-4, Avenue

Edward VII.; Teleph. 90845

ZUNG FOONG WEAVING AND DYEING WORKS-339-43, Rue du Consulat; Teleph. 80003

ZUNG LEE Co., General Importers- 29, Kiangse Road; Teleph. 13694; Cable Ad: Zunli

ZYNGOL & Co., K.-3, Hankow Road

Teleph. 14438

SOOCHOW

州蘇 Sú-chau

Soochow, until 1912 the capital of the province of Kiangsu, lies about 80 miles west by water and 54 by rail and a little north of Shanghai, with which it is connected by excellent inland water-ways. The Shanghai-Nanking Railway supplies still better connection. The city is a rectangle, its length from north to south being three and a half miles and its width from east to west two and a half, the total circumference being about 10 miles. It lies not far from the eastern shore of the great Taihu lake. Past its walls runs the southern section of the Grand Canal, which joins Hangchow to Chinkiang; and in every direction spread creeks or canals, affording easy communica- tion with the numerous towns in the surrounding country. It is an important manu- facturing centre, with a population of nearly 200,000 (according to census taken in 1929). Its two chief manufactures are satins and silk embroideries of various kinds. In addi- tion, it sends out silk goods, yarn, matches, scented tea, and articles in iron, ivory- wood, horn, and glass, and rape secd.

Before the Taiping rebellion Soochow shared with Hangcliow the reputation of being the finest city in China, but it was almost entirely destroyed by the rebels, who captured it on 25th May, 1860. Its recovery by Major (afterwards General) Gordon on 27th Nov., 1863, was the first effective blow to the rebellion. Since that disastrous period it has recovered itself greatly and is once more populous and flourishing, though it has not yet attained to its former pitch of prosperity. It was declared open to foreign trade on September 26, 1896, under the provisions of the Japanese Treaty. The Foreign Settlement is under the southern wall of the city, just across the Canal, and is a strip of land about 1 mile long and a quarter of a mile broad. The Government has made a good carriage road along the Canal bank