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TSINGTAO (KIAOCHAU)

faced with bankruptcy. The situation was saved in time by the granting of reductions in export duty, testing fees, wharfage dues, and freight charges, which relief gave just the impetus necessary to start stocks moving again, and, with the increase in demand that arose later on, the year

ended with prices at the relatively high level of $6.30 per 50 kilogrammes ($7.62 per picul) The net result of the year's trading was an increase from 586,000 to 716,000 quintals in the quantity of kernels shipped abroad, accompanied, however, by a decrease of 1.7 million dollars in the value of these greater shipments; similarly, there was an increase of 30,000 quintals in the quantity and a decrease of 0.6 million dollars in the value of groundnut oil exported to foreign countries. The adminis- trative ability displayed during recent years by the provincial chairman, General Han Fu-chu, and the mayor of Tsingtao, Admiral Shen Heng-lieh, has been commented upon in previous reports. Under the leadership of these two administrators further progress was made in the development, respectively, of the natural resources of the province of Shangtung and of the port of Tsingtao during the year under review. Valuable con- servancy work was accomplished in South-western Shantung, which should save some 3 million mou of land from annual flooding; an ambitious project for dredging the Siao- ching River is being undertaken with a view to making this waterway navigable for steamers throughout its course from Tsinan to the sea; 106 districts out of a total of 109 in the province have now been linked up by the long-distance telephone service; and the continual advance in road-building now makes Shantung one of the best-ser- ved provinces in regard to land communications. Further progress was made in de- veloping the port of Tsingtao. The new dry dock, for vessels up to 5,000 tons, was completed; two-thirds of the work on the new No. 5 Mole had been finished by the end of the year; and many municipal improvements were carried out, notably in con- nexion with provision of educational facilities.

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DIRECTORY

ADAMS & SONS, T., Automobile agent-

25, Hupeh Road; Teleph. 5516

T. Adams, proprietor

AMERICAN

LUTHERAN

SHANTUNG

Tsingtao

MISSION

OF

Rev. & Mrs. P. P. Anspach

Mrs. W. Matzat

Miss Lydia Reich

Miss Mae Rohlfs

Rev. & Mrs. Theo. Scholz

Miss M. Clara Sullivan (on fur-

lough)

Miss Erva Moody

Tsimo

Rev. L. G. Cooper

Rev. & Mrs. R. Sell

Miss E. Strunk

furlough)

on

R. G. Coonradt and wife' Miss Irene Forsythe S. Lautenschlager and wife Miss Ella Gernhardt 'C. C. van Deusen and wife M. G. Tewsbury and wife

ARDEE

HOUSE-15,

Cable Ad: Harris

Fushan Road;

ARNHOLD & Co., LTD.-20, Kuantao Road;

Cable Ad: Ulfhansen

司公油火亞細亞商英

Ying shang A si a huo yu kung sz

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ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA

LTD., THE-Cable Ad: Doric

W. E. Hughes, manager

A. R. T. Finch

M. W. Al-

exander

H. E. Foster

Miss E. M. Blake J. Drewett, installation mgr.

Kiaochow

Rev. & Mrs. C. Reinbrecht

Miss F. Strecker

會老長國美

Mei-gwo djang lao hwei

AMERICAN PRESBYTERIAN

MISSION

Tsi Yang Road; Teleph. 5045; Cable Ad: Presbyterian

BANKS

BANK OF CHOSEN, General Banking Business-8, Kuantao Road; Telephs. 2217, 2535, 2669 and 21715; Cable Ad: Chosenbank