LUNGCHOW
HLung-chow
This city is situated at the junction of the Sung-chi and Kao-ping rivers in lat. 22 deg. 21 min. N., and long. 106 deg, 45 min. E., near the south-western border of the province of Kwangsi, and was selected as the seat of the frontier trade of that province with Tonkin. The continuation of the two above named rivers is known as Tso-chiang, or left branch of the West River, and it enters the main stream some 30 miles above Nan- ning. The town is prettily placed in a circular valley surrounded by hills, and has a new wall completed in 1887. The population is estimated to number about 22,000. Lung- chow, from a military point of view, is considered, by the Chinese, to be a place of importance. Considerable bodies of troops are stationed here, and the head-quarters of the Provincial Commander-in-Chief are established between it and the Tonkin frontier. It was opened to the Franco-Annamese trade on the 1st June, 1889, but so far the little trade existing has been of a very petty description, and will continue so until the Haiphong-Hanoi-Langson railway, which after twelve years' assiduous work, was completed early in 1902, is extended to Lungchow; for the present, this extension is abandoned. Telegraphic communication exists with Canton and other places down the West River, with Mêngtzŭ in Yunnan, via Po-sê, and with places in Tonkin. The Imperial Post Office sends daily couriers to Langson in Tonkin and couriers every five days to Nanning with connections to Canton and Pakhoi. An establishment of the Imperial Maritime Customs is maintained here. The net value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1904 was Tls. 395,526, against Tls. 132,414 for 1903, Tls. 164,494 for 1901, and Tls. 132,510 for 1900. The astonishing decrease in the figures for 1902 was almost entirely due to the large quantity of Aniseed Oil imported during the previous years, while not a single catty was reported to the Customs in 1902. The increase in the returns for 1903 is attributable to the great quantity of rice imported from Toukin on account of the Famine in 1903.
DIRECTORY
ASILE DE LA SAINTE Enfance
Sisters--Maria, Suzanne, Antoinette,
René Agnès, Martha, Ambroise,
Electa (Nannin)
CONSULATES-
官事領國比大
Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun
BELGIUM
Consul for Hongkong, Macao and South
China-Th. Hamman (residing in
Hongkong)
官事領總利大義大
Tai-I-tai-li Chung-ling-ze-kun
ITALY
Consul-Chev. Z. Volpicelli (residing
in Hongkong)
Commercial attaché-Chev. R. Pescio Clerk-E. Gallo
Chinese Secretary-Kuo Chih p'ing
FRANCE
署事領國法大
Consular Agent--Dr. Ch. Plomb
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Lung-chow-hsin-kuan
CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Actg. Com.-J. H. Fougerat
Assistant--J. W. H. Ferguson Tidewaiter-C, Bos Clerk-Chan Wan-chong Surgeon--Dr. Ch. Plomb
FRANCO-CHINESE SCHOOL, Nanning
Bro. Faustus, superior
Two Brothers
Three Brothers (Kweilin)
IMPERIAL COMMISSIONER OF THE FRONTIER
OF KWAN-SI-General Tsêng-siao-shu
Secretary-Loh-Chen
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