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stationers, and theatrical agents, as well as agents for Reuter’s Telegram Company, Ltd. The offices are situated at No. 33, Victoria Road.

and Mr. Marx died shortly after the enterprise was fairly under way, and the journal passed into the hands of Mr. T. Ross-Reid. It

consists of eight pages of six columns each, columns are

of which sixteen devoted to

THE PRINTING OFFICES OF THE “CHINA TIMES.”

HANKOW. The Hankow Daily News.

The Hankow Daily News was founded in March, 1906, by Mr. John Andrew, a well- known merchant on the China coast, with the assistance of Mr. Otto Marx. In spite of many difficulties at the outset, the paper is receiving a gratifying measure of support from the business houses, and at the present time has a fair circulation. Both Mr. Andrew

T. ROSS-REID, Editor, Hankow Daily News.

general news and the remainder to advertise-

ments. Telegrams are received through Reuter’s agency, and letters dealing with

topics of local interest are written from time

TWENTIETH CENTURY IMPRESSIONS OF HONGKONG, SHANGHAI, ETC.

Liloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd.

IN the belief that the reader may be curious to know something of the inner working of so great an undertaking as the production of this series of “ Twentieth Century Impressions,” the compilers are accustomed to include in the Press section of each volume a_ short exposition of their aims. Lloyd’s Greater Britain Publishing Company, Ltd. was formed in response to Mr. Chamberlain’s appeal, while Secretary of State for the Colonies, for the wider dissemination of knowledge relating to the scattered communities who combine to form the British Empire. The unanimous voice of the Home and Colonial Press has testified to the adequate manner in which the Company js fulfilling its objects ; indeed, in the various territories which have been visited —Western Australia, Natal, and the Orange River Colony, Ceylon, and British Malaya—it has been admitted that the publications of the Company constitute additions of great and enduring value even to local knowledge. Despite the experience which the Company has gained in the past, the compilation of this, volume on Hongkong, Shanghai, and other Treaty ports of China, has presented its own peculiar problems for solution. Operations have extended from Hongkong in the south to Newchwang in the north, a distance of more than 1,400 miles, and from Shanghai to Hankow some 600 miles up the Yangtsze-Kiang. . Travelling within this area

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THE OFFICES OF THE “TIENTSIN PRESS.”

to time by correspondents located at various ports on the Yangtsze.

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has not been unattended with difficulty, for many of the smaller and more remote ports can only be reached by coasting steamers, or by railways, which, though rapidly develop- ing, afford as yet only partial facilities.