Directory_and_Chronicle_1936 — Page 836

A444

AMOY-SWATOW

Sia Hong Guan, head, dept. of

science

Shen Chi Joe, dept. of Chinese Loo Seng Toh, dept. of English

UNIVERSITY OF AMOY

Lim Boon Keng, president

L. K. Chan, B.A., university secy.

C. C. Liau, M.D., treasurer C. T. Kieng, B. ED., actg. registrar Chiu Bien-ming, DR. PHIL., dean

of college of Arts ·

Y. Liu, M.A., dean of college of Science K. T. Sen, PH.D., dean of college

of education

T. H. Chen, M.A., dean of college of

Law and Commerce

E. S. Sy, B.A., principal of senior

high school

申永 Eng sin

WHITFIELD & Co., P. S., Importers, Ex- porters and General Merchants-129, Chong San Road; Cable Ad: Field; Codes: A.B.C. 5th edn. and Bentley's

YEE TSOONG TOBACCO DISTRIBUTORS LTD.,

記

集

YEO SWEE SWAN & Co., Merchants and. Commission Agents Cable Ad: Chipkee Yeo Swee Swan, partner and gen. mgr,. Yeo Tain Oak, attorney and manager

Y. M. C. A. Little Running Horse Road: Teleph. 95; Cable Ad: Flamingo-

SWATOW

頭汕

Shan-tau

Swatow, which was first thrown open to foreigners by the Treaty of Tien- tsin (1858-1860), is situated in the mouth of the river Han in the Southern most corner of the delta formed by that river on its way to the sea. It lies near the eastern border of Kwangtung Province in lat. 23° 20′ 43′′ N. and long. 116° 39′ 3′′ E. It is the shipping port and general entrepôt for the whole of eastern Kwangtung and the chief hinterland cities are Ch'ao-chow-fu (officially renamed Ch'ao-an-hsien by the Republic), Mei-hsien (formerly Kayingchow), Chao- yang. Kityang, Samhopa and Hingning.

!

Swatow is built on the northern shore of an arm of the sea which stretches about 10 miles inland (and not on the north bank of the Han river as is commonly supposed). The shore on the opposite side of the harbour known as Kakchioh is bold and striking, the hills stretching away eastward to the coast wheer they from what is known to sea-going people as "Good Hope Cape". Pagoda Hill risse on the opposite side almost due north of "Good Hope Cape" and in a direct line from this hill, across a sheltered stretch of water known as Clipper Roads, lies the large island of Namoa.

The earliest traces of foreign commercial activity are to be found in one- of the southern bays of Namca Island where there are relics of East India. Company occupation in the eighteenth century, In the same spot in 1855 an American from Connecticut named Bradley and a Scotsman from Edin- burgh, named Richardson founded the firm of Bradley & Co. Both had pre- viously been trading in the Philippines and both had come to Namoa Island from Amoy. Subsequently Bradley & Co. removed to Double Island which is situated at the mouth of Swatow Harbour and is 4 miles from Swatow. It is interesting here to record from an old document recently unearthed that at the