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DAIREN

The city of Dairen, which has ceen expanding rapidly owing to business prosperity and increase of population, is lighted by electricity and gas and has ample telephone facilities. The electric power-house, when completed in 1911, had a capacity of 4,500 kilowatts. This was increased in 1921 to 6,000 kws., and a second power-house of 10,000 kws. was added in June, 1923. This was increased to 48,000 kilowatts by 1932. The city has macadamized roads with rows of shady trees, and is well equipped with waterworks, drainage and sewage systems. With the growth of trade, more particularly in Manchurian beans, a number of influential business houses, Japanese, Chinese and foreign, have established themselves at the port. The foreign and Japanese com munities in April, 1909, organized and opened the Dairen Club." A Gun Clúb, Golf Club, and Marine Association are among other institutions of the port. Of places for public amusement, the Electric Park, designed on an up-to-date plan and containing all devices for recreation, forms the chief attraction. The Chinese quarter, situated on the western fringe of the city, has also grown considerably. The Railway Hospital deserves special mention, owing partly to its size and partly to the excellence of its equipment. This hospital affords accommodation for 612 patients and treats more than 1,600 out-patients of all nationalities on an average every day.

In 1928 a stadium was constructed with seating accommodation for over 50,000. Adjoining the stadium is a large concrete fresh water swimming pool, one of several in Dairen used, mainly by students. Several parks are scattered throughout the city.

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The harbour works had been less than half completed by the Russians. Some work had been done on the eastern half, and only some blocks dumped for the eastern breakwater. Only two wharves had been completed; the depth of the harbour ranging from 17 to 28 feety with only 18 feet of water at the main wharf basin. Since the Japanese occupation, the S.M.R. Co. has done much in the extension of harbour facilities and their actual management, introducing every modern appliance for speedy and commodious cargo handling and watering and coating of vessels. To-day the combined length of the breakwaters is 13,436 feet, and they are 3 to 5 feet above the highest tide. The deep water area inside the breakwater is 3,107,000 square metres: The en- trance being very open, viz., 1,200 feet wide, the harbour is accessible to vessels of deep draught at any time of day or state of tide. The total seafrontage of the first, second and third wharves is 14,296 feet, and of the fourth wharf (4,600 feet) more than 300 metres have already been opened, increasing the total number of berths to 39. In order still further to lessen congestion at the wharves, a new pier was constructed at Kan Chingtze across the bay, which attends exclusively to the export of Fushun coal. The wharves containing 330,699 square metres, with railway sidings, are lighted by electricity and have up-to-date appliances for the handling of cargo. At the east end of the shore, an oil pier, 558 feet long with a depth of 30 feet of water has been constructed for the purpose of discharging inflammable goods and bean oil in bulk. The warehouse area was 597,500 square metres, besides six bean oil tanks (each holding capacity of 1,435 tons). The waiting pavilion, which cost half a million yen and can accommodate 5,000 persons, was completed by the S.M.R. Co., in January, 1924. The passenger trains connect with steamers here. The O.S.K. Company maintains a ticket office and the Bank of Chosen has an Exchange Office in this pavilion, which also contains showrooms, dining rooms, stalls for the sale of goods, etc. On the islands of Sanshantao, at the entrance to Dairen Bay, stands a lighthouse, and two other lighthouses have been erected at the northern extremity of the east breakwater and at the eastern extremity of the north breakwater, respectively. On the signal tower of the former breakwater and on the islands of Sanshantao foghorns have also been fixed. A wireless telegraph station is established at Takushan, 30 miles, from the harbour, and a wireless, telegraph station of 35 wk. power at Liu- shutun was completed in 1922. There is a granite dry dock 440 ft. 6 in. long, and 51 feet wide at entrance, with extensive repair shops attached, leased and managed by the Manchuria Dock Yard Co., Ltd. A marine quarantine station,

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