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representing a capital investment of over $17 million, suffered badly. The section of Chapei at one time crowded with small machine and metal works was entirely razed. Larger losses outside the Settlement included the Kiangnan Dock and Engineering Company's plant in Nantao, the Oriental Iron Works, the Ming Ching Printing Machine Manufacturing Company in Chapei, and the China Scientific Instrument Company's factory at Chenju.

Damaged enterprises included many of the newer and better organised factories, such as the China Can Company, which was destroyed with losses estimated at $1 million, the well-equipped Chinese Educational Goods Factory and the Da Hwa Educational Goods Factory, both of which were also destroyed.

What has taken place at Shanghai is merely an indication of what has occurred at other occupied ports on the Yangtze River, along the coast, and in Canton-where all industrial plants, water and electricity works, the General Post Office, and most of the city's modern business sections were almost entirely destroyed by fire. To these losses must be added the incalculable damage suffered in the interior of China due to destruction by the invading armies, the Chinese "scorched earth" policy, and the floods in North China and in those provinces bordering the Yellow and Yangtze Rivers. Despite all the damage sustained in the coastal areas, much valuable equipment has been moved westward, the plants, machinery, and staff of many industries in Chekiang, Kiangsu and Anhwei having been transported with Government aid to zones of comparative safety in China's hinterland. In addition to Government aid, considerable private capital has been invested, resulting in the opening of a new era of industrial and agricultural development in the West and the opening of many new avenues to trade. The losses sustained as a result of hostilities, the diversion of shipping, the closure of the Yangtze River to navigation, the blockade of the coast, and the bombing of towns, roads and railways were incalculably heavy.

DIRECTORY

LEGATIONS

BELGIUM - Legation Street, East End, Peiping; Teleph. 1452 (East); Cable Ad: Belge

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary-Baron Jules Guil-

laume

BRAZIL-32, Chun Shu Hutung, East City,

Peiping

Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary-H. E. Renato de Lacerda Lago

Secretary-Frederico de Chermont

Lisboa

Interpreter Mario R. das Chagas

CUBA--234, Hungjao Road; Cable Ad:

Capiro, Shanghai

Mr. & Mrs. E. Brook

C. V. W. Brook

CZECHOSLOVAKIA 727, Avenue Haig, Shanghai; Teleph. 75492, Cable Ad: Zamini

Envoy Extraordinary and Ministe

Plenipotentiary-Jan Seba Chancellor-Jaroslav Stepan Secretary-Antonin Kolacek

Commercial Attache-Otakar Pavlata Chinese Secretaries-Hsu I-Ging and

Wang Shao-Tseng

DENMARK-26, The Bund; Cable Ad:

Legadane, Shanghai

Envoy Extraordinary and Minis- ter Plenipotentiary-Oscar de Oxholm

1st Secretary of Legation-Poul

Scheel

Attache M. G. I, Melchior

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FINLAND-301; Route Cardinal Mercier, Shanghai; Teleph. 74244; Cable Ad Finlandia

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