KIRIN-LUNGCHINGTSUN
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Through trains also run south from Kirin, via Hailung and Mukden to Shanhai- kuan, en route to Tientsin and Peiping.
A new town is now springing up, outside the old city, with fine roads and modern buildings.
North Kirin is to become an industrial area. A new bridge is being built across the Sungari, in order to develop the area south of the river as a residential district. A few miles up the river a large hydro-electric plant is being installed.
DIRECTORY
IRISH PRESBYTERIAN MISSION
Rev. & Mrs. J. McWhirter Rev. Tom Blakely
Rev. & Mrs. M. McCreery
Dr. & Mrs. D. McDowell
Miss Lily Dodds, nurse
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION--
S. Exc. Mgr. Gaspais, evêque titulaire
de Canope
R. P. Duhart
Seminaire
R. P. Lemaire, superieur
R. P. Beaulieu
R. P. Lacquois
R. P. Liogier
LUNGCHINGTSUN
村井龍
Lung-ching-tsun
Lungchingtsun (Dragon Well Village), has a population of about 15,000 inhabitants composed of about 11,000 Koreans, 3,000 Chinese, and 1,000 Japanese. Situated in a fertile plain, its main exports are: beans, millet and timber. There are promising mining possibilities (coal, copper, silver, and gold) waiting development. The trade- by light railway to Kainei-is with Korea and Japan. The principal imports are cotton piece goods, sugar, Japanese sundries, paper, kerosene oil, metals, fishery
Telephone and telegraph line, in addition to the Chinese telegraph and tele- phone lines, connect Lungchingtsun with the neighbouring marts of Yenki, Towtaokow and Hunchun. A handsome new building for the Bank of Chosen was completed in 1923, and a particularly fine new Japanese Consulate in 1925.
DIRECTORY
BANK OF CHOSEN-Yenchi Manchukuo
S. Shiozawa
T. Itoh
JAPANESE CONSULATE-
Acting Consul-G. Masuo Chancellors-M. Yazaki & Y. Ishii
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