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POST OFFICE, FRENCH
Receveur-M. Subira Planton-Li-coeng-Ten
HOIHOW-LUNGCHOW
POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE
Postmaster-A. W. Cross
寶森 Sum.bo
SCHOMBURG & Co., A., Merchants and Com-
mission Agents
Aug. Schomburg (Bremen)
L. Judell (Biebrich)
Albert Otto
W. Krone
H. Wintruff
Agencies
Nanshan Steamship Company Norddeutscher Lloyd Orient Line China Navigation Co., Ld. North China Insurance Co., Ld. Canton Insurance Office, Limited Deutsche Transport VersicherungsGes. Badische Schifffahrts Assec. Ges. Prussian National Insurance Co. South British Insce. Co., N. Zealand Royal Exchange Assce. Corporation
LUNGCHOW
州龍 Lung-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 in1887. 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 Coromander-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 Mengtzu in Yunnan, vid Po-se, and with places in Tonkin. The Imperial Post Office sends daily couriers to Langson in Tonkin and couriers every second day 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 1908 was Tls. 232,452.
ASILE DE LA ST. ENFANCE
DIRECTORY
Lungchow-Sisters Martha, Suzanne,
Louise
FRANCE
Nanning-Strs. Agnes, René, Ambroise
CONSULATES-AUSTRIA-HUNGARY
H. B. M's Consular Officer in charge |
of Austro-Hungarian interests
官事領國比大
Tai-peh-kwok Ling-sz-kun
BELGIUM
Consul-Residing at Hongkong
署事領國法大
Consular Agent-Dr. F. Péloï.
官事頜總利大義大
Tai-I-tai-li Chung-ling-ze-kun
ITALY
Consul-Comm. Z. Volpicelli (residing
in Hongkong)
Chinese Writer-Ching-yao
*# Lung-chow-hsin-kuan
關新
CUSTOMS, IMPERIAL MARITIME
Actg. Commsnr.-K.H. von Lindholm Third Assistant-H. A. Gary