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million as against $610,000. Among coastwise exports, raw cotton advanced from 167,331 quintals valued at $9.7 million in 1936 to 194,134 quintals valued at $12 million, of which about 80 per cent was sent away before the outbreak of hostilities. Cotton yarn also registered an appreciable increase, 22,234 quintals valued at $3.2 million being exported as against 15,411 quintals valued at $1.7 million, since, with communications on the Lower Yangtze interrupted. Shasi yarn found a favourable market in Szechuen. The coast wise export of seasamum seed and broad beans decreased considerably, the former from 144,299 quintais valued at $2.3 million to 25,610 quintals valued at $419,000 and the latter from 192,309 quintals valued at $856,000 to 29,898 quintals valued at $172,000.

DIRECTORY

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

W. A. Price, representative

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE, Merchants and

Steamship Agents-

CONSULATE, GREAT BRITAIN—

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

Ichang)

關市沙 Sha Si Kwan"

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME-

Commissioner of Customs--Chang Pai

Leh

Assistant-Chou Chin Cheng

Acting Assistant Tidesurveyor- Oliver

Kwang Miao

德路

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN MISSION-

E. C. Zimmermann and Wife

HANKOW PRESS PACKING Co. (Shasi

Branch)-

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Arnhold & Co., Ltd., secretaries and

general managers

W. A. Price, manager

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ITALIAN TRADING CO.-

Wong Han Cheng, agent

和怡

E Wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & Co., LTD.-

C. J. Wei, agent

Agents:

Indo-China Steam Nav. Co., Ld.

POST OFFICE-

Postmaster-Cheng Kuo-hsün

SHANGHAI COMMERCIAL & SAVINGS BANK,

LTD., THE-Cable Ad: 0794

R. C. Tsing, manager

STANDARD-VACUUM OIL COMPANY--Cable

Ad: Standvac

Austin Yang

YEE TSOONG DISTRIBUTORS, LTD. - Cable

Ad: Powhattan

Woo Lien Sung

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. 1 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.

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