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value can be given. Silk, a large proportion of the tea, and, in general, most of the valuable produce of the district have deserted the launches for the railway, and do not appear in the Customs Returns unless or until they leave the country for abroad. The same thing applies to produce shipped by junks now that the Soo-Hang Regulations have been abolished. The tea harvest was good, and trade in this commodity was stimulated by the resumption of diplomatic relations with Soviet Russia on the one hand and depressed (as regards unfired leaf) by the loss of its Manchurian markets on the other. Weather conditions were peculiarly suitable for sericulture; but the discouraged farmers restricted output and decreased their acreage under mulberry in favour of other crops, while the reeling and weaving factories were equally dejected by the lack of demand for their products. The paper trade suffered from the interruption of demand from North China, caused by the Japanese invasion of that part of the country. The good rice crop seems to have been consumed locally, but reliable data regarding the movements of agricultural produce mostly shipped by junk outside Customs control, is lacking.

Reference has been made above to the completion of the Hang-Kiang Railway. This line reached its present terminus at Yushan in Kiangsi by November, a distance of 395 kilometres (including a short branch line to Lanchi) from Hangchow. It is proposed to extend this railway to Nanchang, the capital of Kiangsi, in due course. The most noticeable success of the Chekiang Highway Administration during the year was the completion of the road from Hangchow to Hweichow, in Anwei. By the regular bus service maintained on this line, the hilly part of Southern Anwei can be reached now in one day's time.

司公險保亞美

Mei-yah pao sien kung sze

DIRECTORY

AMERICAN ASIATIC UNDERWRITERS, FED., INC., U.S.A., General Insur- ance: Fire, Marine, Motor-car, Life, Accident, Burglary,

Burglary, Plate- glass, Baggage and Special Risks- 5, Bing Yuan Lee, off Eastern Yuen Soo Road; Teleph. 1925; Cable Ad: Underiters

C. V. Starr, president (Shanghai) Y. C. Yuan, inspector

司公油火亞細亞商英

Ying shang A si a huo yu kung sz

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Cable Ad: Doric

K. H. Bichard

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所分核稽務 浙兩

CHINESE GOVERNMENT SALT Revenue

ADMINISTRATION-Cable Ad: Salt

Chinese Dist. Inspr.-J. L. Feng

關海州杭

# # Ht Hangchow-hsin-kuan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner-Hu Fu-sen

館事領國帝本日

CONSULATE, JAPAN-Cable Ad: Riyoji

亞美 Mei-ya

HANOVER FIRE INSURANCE CO., NEW YORK

--5, Bing Yuen Lee, off Eastern

Yuen Soo Road; Teleph. 1925; Cable Ad: Underiters

American Asiatic Underwriters, Fed. Inc., U.S.A., managers for the Orient

MISSIONS

AMERICAN BAPTIST MISSION (NORTH)

Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Clayton

Miss Blanche Edgar

Miss Gertrude McCulloch

Miss Ellen J. Peterson

AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN MISSION

(SOUTH)

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主 天

CATHOLIC MISSION

Rt. Rev. Monsgr. Favean, Bishop

Rev. M. Bouillet, provicar

Rev. P. Legrand

Rev. J. J. Deymier, procurator

Rev. Jos. Deymier

Rev. A. Asinelli (Kiashing)

Rev. F. Radogua

do.

Rev. McArdle (Huchow)

Rev. J. Conway do.

Rev. J. Lamers (Yenchow)

Rev. Aug. Hénault (Lungyu) Rev. G. Vagg