The Archive · 1899

The Chinese Customs Stations

'The Imperial Mari now enjoying the hospit have been allowed the use of the erst: while' Customs Stations at Capsuimun, Fotochow; etc. until October next, to give them time to make preparations for their establishment, on Chinese territory, and are now engaged in erecting temporary stations on the new frontier, These are to be matshed erections at first, and one is going up at Tooniang Island, near the eastern shore of Mirs Bay; one at Shatowkok in Starling Inlet, at the head of Mirs Bay; one on Linton (the island famous as the rendezvous in old times of the opium ships), and one on Taishan Island, near the town of Namtau.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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