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SHASE-CHANGSHA

DIRECTORY

ARNHOLD & Co., LTD.-Cable Ad: Harchi

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants and

Steamship Agents

CONSULATE, GREAT BRITAIN

Consul-E. W. P. Mills (resident at

Ichang)

關市 市沙 Shasi Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Commissioner of Customs--Chang Pai

Leh

Assistant-Chou Chin Cheng

Acting Assistant Tidesurveyor and Acting Harbour Master-Sia Liang

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德 路

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN MISSION--Cable

Ad: Melchini

E. C. Zimmermann and wife

A. C. Diers 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

怡

和

E Wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.

C. J. Wei, agent

Agents

Indo-China Steam Nav. Co., Ld.

POST OFFICE

Postmaster-Cheng Kuo-hsün

THE SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS

BANK, LTD.-Cable Ad: 0794

R. C. Tsing, manager

STANDARD-VACUUM OIL COMPANY-Cable

Ad: Standvac

Austin Yang

YEE TSOONG DISTRIBUTORS, Ltd.

Ad: Powhattan

Woo Lien Sung

Cable

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 These have since been withdrawn and Japan and Great Britain are the only countries which now maintain Consular posts in the port.