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WUHU

Exports of iron ore, which constitutes the most important direct trade of thei port with foreign countries, increase yearly Three private concerns are now engagede in opening these mines, namely, the Yu Fan Co. of Tichiang, the Pao Hsing Co. of Manganshan and the Fu Li Min Co. of Chenchiayu. This mineral, so richly produced in Anhwei, is all shipped to Japan. Motor roads exist betweem Wuhu, Nanking, Tunki and Wuwei.

The tract of land selected 30 years ago for the Foreign Settlement was definitely ceded in 1906, and sites were allotted to the then Anhwei Railway Company and tou various shipping companies, each lot having a river frontage of 600 to 1,100 feet. In 1914 the Ministry of Communications took over the Anhwei Railway Company with its entire assets and liabilities, the property being transferred to the Kiangnan Rail- way Company in 1933. Large godowns were built by Messrs. Buttefield & Swire on their ground in the Settlement for storing rice. Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd., own a large property here and the Chinese Government Salt Admin- istration has also bought some with the intention of erecting large storage godowns. The Customs House and buildings on the bund near the Settlement were completed and occupied in 1919. The Chinese population of Wuhu and its suburbs was estimated at 328,803 in 1934. A railway has been constructed by the Kiangnan Railway Company connecting this pert with Nanking and Sunchiapu. The former line was opened to passenger and goods traffic in May 1935 and the latter in July of the same year.

TRADE IN 1938

The port of Wuhu, having been occupied in November 1937 and remaining in

Japanese occupation throughout 1938 with no Customs functioning, no report on

trade or trade statistics are available.

DIRECTORY

會公聖 Sung Hung Wei

AMERICAN CHURCH MISSION-

Right Rev. D. T. Huntington

Rev. L. R. Craighill and Wife

Rev. H. B. Pickens and Wife

B. W. Lanphear

Miss Laura Clark

Sister Louise Magdalene

Sister Luey Caritas

亞細亞 A si a

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (NORTH CHINA),

LTD., THE-Cable Ad: Dorie

T. F. R. Waters, manager

J. H. Ford

古太 Tai koo

BUTTERFIELD & SWIRE (John Swire &

Sons, Ltd.), Merchants-Cable Ad: Swire

C. W. Pao, agent

關湖蕪 Wu Hu Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME → Cable

Ad: Custos

Commissioner-F. D. Goddard

Assistants

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Liu

E-ling,

Ching and Fei Chia Kwen

Shih

Acting Tidesurveyor and Harbour

Master-R. Patterson

Chong Fah

Examiner F. J. Byrnes

Assistant Boat Officer Miao

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Assistant Examiner Li Shiu

Yeung

District River Inspector-R. L.

B. Ryde

政郵華中

Chung Hwa Yu Chêng

FIRST CLASS POST OFFICE

Deputy Postal Commissioner-in-Charge

-Hsieh Teh Hsun

和怡 E Wo

JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD., General Merchants and Shipping Agents-

Cable Ads: Jardine and Inchcoy (For' Shipping)

Y. L. Tu, agent