YING-SHAN-HSIEN

[s. 818] : A town in Sze-chwan, China, situated about 40 miles S. E. of Pao-ningStation of the CIM (1898), with (1903) fu. 3 women mi ionaries, 1 native worker, 1 place of worship and 15 profe ed Christians. A town in Hu-nan, China, YO-CHAU-FU: situated a little S. of the Yangtsze River, used by the LMS as a point of entrance to the province. After a short period of observation the station residences were transferred to Heng-chau. YOH-YANG. Yo-yang. See YOKOHAMA: One of the It is situated on of the treaty ports of Japan. a plain by the side of the bay of Tokio, on the S. coast of the main island, and is shut in by hills. It occupies an area of a square mile, about one-fourth of which is a foreign settlement. The climate is variable, the thermometer ranging from 95° to 43° F., and the rainfall The harbor is a wide and com is quite great. modious one, well protected by a breakwater. Yokohama is a port of call for the lines of steamers between San Francisco and Hong kong. Other lines connect it with Shanghai, as well as numerous steamers which run from it to points in Japan and China. A line of steamers from Vancouver to Hong kong A railway connects regularly. it and was the first (1872). also the terminus It is railway stops there with Tokio, opened in Japan of a railroad which runs to Kioto. Population (1898) is 193,762; many Europe ans and numerous Chinese are included in the total. The following Societies have mi ion stations here: RCA (1859), PN and 1,921 profe ed Christians. The ABS (1876) and the BFBS each have an agency and a book depot in Yokohama. 818