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BANK OF CHINA

BANK OF COMMUNICATIONS

SHASI-CHANGSHA

DIRECTORY

HO LI CHEN STEAM LAUNCH Co.

Chen Ho Seng, manager

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. (CHINA),

LTD.

CONSULATE, GREAT BRITAIN

Consul (resident at Ichang).

關市沙 Shasi Kwan'

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Assistant-in-Charge-J. J. Palmer

Assistant Chou Chin Chêng

Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master F. Stormes

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EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN MISSION-Cable

Ad: Synod

E. C. Zimmermann and wife

HANKOW PRESS PACKING CO. (Shasi Branch)

Arnhold & Co., Ltd., secretaries and

general managers

W. A. Price, manager

ITALIAN TRAding Co.

Wong Han Cheng, agent

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JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

S. S. Hsieh, agent

Agents

Indo-China Steam Nav. Co., Ld.

POST OFFICE

Postmaster-Sun Kuo-sui

THE SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS

BANK, LTD.-Cable ad: Comsavbank

Juchien Chu, manager

SOCONY-VACUUM CORPORATION

Austin Yang

CHANGSHA

沙

長

Chaug-sha

Changsha (or "Long-sands," as the Chinese words may be translated) is the capital city of the province of Hunan. It stands on the right bank of the Siang river, which flows into the Tungting lake, and is about 100 miles south of the opening of the lake. into the Yangtsze at the north-eastern corner of the province. It is in lat. 28:10 N. and long. 113.01 E.

The name first occurs about B.C. 220 as that of the 36th and last of the com- manderies into which the First Emperor divided the land after conquering it. It was used as the name of one of the kingdoms for about 100 years (B.C. 202-101) during the Han dynasty. Its greatest mark in history was its successful resistance to the 90 days' siege by the Taiping rebels in 1852 by methods which, afterwards employed elsewhere, led to the final defeat of the rebels by Tseng Kuo-fan, the greatest of all Chinese statesmen in the nineteenth century.

Changsha was opened as a treaty port by the China-Japan treaty of 1903. The Custom House was established on July 1st, 1904; a Japanese Consulate followed in November, and a British Consulate the next year. Since then, America and Germany have also sent representatives. These have since been withdrawn and Japan and Great Britain are the only countries which now maintain Consular posts in the port.

The main line between Canton and Wuchang passes outside the east wall of the city (the river lying on the west). Two passenger trains run daily between Changsha and Wuchang. The line towards Canton is open as far as Liling (about 40 miles from Changsha), a section which was originally part of the special line built between the Pinghsiang collieries (situated just over the Kiangsi border) and the Siang river at Chuchow. Construction on the railway to the south has been in abeyance since 1919, but plans are now being made to complete this section with funds to be advanced by the British China Indemnity Fund Committee.

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