HAINICHEN  , a

town of Germany, in the kingdom of Saxony, 0n the Kleine Striegis, 15 M . N.E. of Chemnitz, on the rail-way to Rosswein . Pop . (1905), 7752 . It has two Evangelical churches, a park, and commercial and technical schools . Hainichen is a place of considerable industry . Its chief manufacture is that of flannels, baize, and similar fabrics; indeed it may be called the centre of this industry in Germany . The special whiteness and excellence of the flannel made in Hainichen are due to the peculiar nature of the water used in the manufacture . There are also large dye-works and bleaching establishments . Hainichen is the birthplace of Gellert, to whose memory a bronze statue was erected in the market-place in 1865 . The Gellert institution for the poor was erected in 1815 . HAI-PHONG, a seaport of Tongking, French Indo-China, on the Cua-Cam, a branch of the Song-koi (Red river) delta .

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population numbers between 21,000 and 22,000, of whom 12,500 are Annamese, 7500 Chinese (attracted by the rice trade of the port) and 1200 Europeans . It is situated about 20 M. from the Gulf of Tongking and 58 m . E. by S. of Hanoi, with which it communicates by river and canal and by railway . It is the second commercial port of French Indo-China, is a naval station, and has government and private ship-building yards . The harbour is accessible at all times to vessels drawing 19 to 20 ft., but is obstructed by a bar . Hai-phong is the seat of a resident who performs the functions of mayor, and the residency is the chief building of the town . A civil tribunal, a tribunal of commerce and a branch of the Bank of Indo-China are also among its institutions . It is the headquarters of the river steamboat service (Messageries fluviales) of Tongking, which plies as far as Lao-kay on the Song-koi, to the other chief towns of Tongking and northern Annam, and also to Hong-kong . Cotton-spinning and the manufacture of cement are carried on .