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MISSION DU KOUANG-SI
LUNGCHOW-MENGTSZ
Right Rev. J. M. Lavest, Nanning Rev. I. Renault, Kweilin
Rev. F Poulat, Kweishen
Rev. C. L. Héraud, Sinn-tchéou Rev. F. M. Labully, Nanning Rev. C. E. V. Baufreton, Posé Rev. A. Barrière, Nanning Rev. L. Rué, Lung-nü
Rev. A. M. I. Séguret, Ssu-Lungchow Rev. V. F. Thomas, Si-tcheng-fou Rev. C. Pélamourgues, Yun-fou Rev. J. M. Epalle, Kiuchow
Rev. H. J. Coste, Tai-ping
Rev. A. Dalle, Lo-young
Rev. V. Sifferlen, Si-lin
Rev. H. Costenoble, Lungchow Rev. L. Crocq, Pin-nam Rev. Auguin, Yow-lin Rev. Ducœur, Siao-jen Rev. Barrés, Nanning Rev. Tessier, Wuchow Rev. Albany, Nannin
Rev. Maurice, Chang-se
Rev. Humbert, Kweilin
Four Chinese Priests
局總政郵州龍清大
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
District Postmaster-J. H. Fougerat
Postal Clerks-Sung Sik Hsieh Chiaên
MENGTSZ
自荥 Mung-tsz
This is a district city in south-east Yunnan, and together with Man-hao, a village on the left bank of the Red River, was opened to trade by the Additional Convention to the French Treaty of Tientsin of the 25th April, 1886, signed at Peking on the 26th June, 1887. The town is two days' journey from Man-hao and about six days' from the frontier of Tonkin at Laokay, and beautifully situated, being built on a cultivated plateau twenty miles long by about twelve miles in breadth, encircled by picturesque mountains, and is 4,580 feet above the level of the sea. It has a
It has a population of about 2,000 persons, but was a place of much more importance, before the Mahommedan rebellion, as the numerous well-built temples, many of them now in ruins, still testify. It is, however, a considerable commercial emporium even now, and is becoming an important centre for the distribution of foreign goods imported via Tonkin.
The French Consul hoisted his flag at Mêngtsz on the 30th April, 1889, and the Customs station was opened in the following August. The estimated value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1903 was Tls. 6,435,578 against Tls. 7,375,529 for 1902, Tls. 6,815,273 for 1901 and Tls. 5,402,330 for 1900. The Chinese mer- chants avail themselves largely of the advantages offered by the transit pass system. The value of goods sent into the interior under transit passes during the year 1903 amounted to Tis. 2,775,000, showing a shrinking of half a million taels as compared with the returns of the previons year. The climate of Mêngtsz is temperate and salubrious. Plague, which had nearly 1,000 victims yearly in the first half of the last decade, has been absent from Mêngtsz since 1899. During the winter good sport is obtained, snipe and wild fowl being abundant in the plains, and some pheasants and partridges in the hilly districts. A new French Consulate was finished in 1893, new dwelling-houses for members of the Customs service in 1894, and a new Custom House in the spring of 1895. All these buildings are outside the East gate of the city. On the 22nd June, 1899, a riot occurred, in the course of which the Custom House and French Consulate were looted. The Compagnie Lyonnaise Indo-Chinoise opened in 1899 a branch to Mêngtsz. A railway from Laokay to Yunnanfu via Mêngtsz is projected by a French Company, which has a capital of 4,000,000 francs for this purpose. Surveys for the whole line have been made by officers deputed by the Tonkin Government and the work of construction is now in progress. Several houses for the accommodation of the Railway Mission have been built at Mêngtsz since 1900 and as a sequel to the immigration, rents, wages and the cost of living for natives and foreigners alike have risen greatly.
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