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over for three months of the year, but navigation is practically suspended for four months, from December to the following March. Formerly New- chwang was shut off from the rest of the world during winter, but the advent of railways has changed all this. The Manchukuo State Railways through their branch line from Koupangtzu, maintain daily communication with Tientsin, Peiping and Mukden; and the South Manchurian Railway, through its branch line from Tashihchiao, maintains daily communication with Dairen, Port Arthur, Mukden, Tiehling, Hsinking and Harbin where a connection can be made with the Trans-Siberian Railway to Europe

The principal trade of Newchwang is the export of beans and bean- cakes, but this is at present far from flourishing. The town contains many factories-textiles, matches, paper, etc.

The foreign (non-Japanese) population is now very small,

DIRECTORY

司公油火亞細亞商英

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD.-Cable Ad: Doric

ASTOR HOUSE HOTEL-The Bund; Cable

Ad: Astor

BANKS

行銀

銀國中

BANK OF CHINA Yuan Shih Chieh;

Cable Ad: 6892 or Centrobank

行銀通交 Chiao tung yin hong

BANK OF

COMMUNICATIONS-Dung-Ta

Chieh; Telephs. 88 and 117; Cable Ad:

6639 (Tung) and Chiaotung

行銀金正

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, LTD. (Ying

Kow Branch)-Teleph. 10; Cable Ad: Shokin

N. Kimura, manager

Y. Sasaki, p.p. manager

Staff S. Sakaguchi, Y. Midzuno, S.

Shinohara, M. Yoshikawa and K. Takino

行 洋利德

BEYER & Co., Ltd., A., Export & Imports,

Shipping-Teleph. 1931; P.O. Box 25;

Cable Ad: Hansa

A. Beyer

A. Gleue

CHI TUNG TOBACCO Co., LTD.-Teleph.

419 Cable Ad: Powhattan

CHINA MERCHANTS S. N. Co.-Cable

Ad: Merchants

行分口營司公船輪古太

CHINA NAVIGATION CO., LTD., THE, New- chwang Branch. Agents: Shipping,

Insurance, Sugar and Paint-Cable

Ad: Swire

Maurice C. C. Ching, agent

COMMERCIAL AGENCY OF C. E. RAIL-

WAY, Shipping, Forwarding,

Forwarding,

Insur-

ance and Commission Agents--Teleph.

1271; Cable Ad: Kitvostdor

CONSULATES

FRANCE (Consul Residing at Mukden)

門衙事領國英大

Ta ying kuo ling shih ya mên

GREAT BRITAIN (Temporarily in

Charge of Consul General at Mukden)

JAPAN-Cable Ad: Rijoji Yingkou

Chancellors T. Mimura, I. Maye-

jima and T. Kikkawa

NETHERLANDS-

Acting Consul--P. Farmer

NORWAY-

Vice-Consul -P. Farmer

Clerk-N. Nicoli

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