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SHASI-CHANGSHA

also declining in quantity from 22,234 to 21,137 quintals. Rice also fell from 260,987 2 to 133,400 quintals, sesamum secd from 25,610 quintals to nil, and broad beans from 29,898 to 1,007 quintals. Coastwise exports of wheat flour increased in quantity from 7,141 to 22,522 quintals.

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

會 德 路

EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN MISSION-

E. C. Zimmermann and Wife

HANKOW PRESS PACKING Co. (Shasi

Branch)-

Arnhold & Co., Ltd., secretaries and

general managers

W. A. Price, manager

ITALIAN TRADING CO.-

Wong Han Cheng, agent

E Wo

和怡

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.