MISSIONS
HOIHOW-LUNGCHOW
Tien-tsu-tong
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION
Rev. P. Pénicaud (Kiung Chow)
Receveur-M. Subira
POST OFFICE, FRENCH
Planton-Li-coeng-Ten
POST OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE
Postmaster (ex officio)—J. H. M. Moor-
head
Postal Officer-E. Cammiade
寶森 Sum.bo
1065
SCHOMBURG & Co., A., Merchants and Coni-
mission Agents
Aug. Schomburg (Bremen)
L. Jüdell (Biebrich)
Albert Otto
W. Krone
H. Wintruff
Agencies
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
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 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-Aunamese 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, witli Môngtzú in Yunnan, viá Po-sê, 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. Foreign interests in the port are in charge of the Consuls stationed at Hongkong. France alone maintains a Consular agent in Lungchow. The net value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1909 was Tls. 314,412 as compared with Tls. 232,452 in 1908.
ASILE DE LA ST. ENFANCE
DIRECTORY
Lungchow-Sisters Martha, Suzanne,
Louise
FRANCE
署事領國法大
Consular Agent -Dr.P.H.L. Pouthion-
Savielle
關新州龍
Lung-chow-hsin-kuan
CUSTOMS, IMPERIAL MARITIME
Actg. Commsnr.-P. C. Hansson
2nd Assistant-C. W. de Bérigny
Tidewaiter-H. L. Amiel
Clerk-Kno-chiang
Medical Officer-Dr. P. J. L. Pouthion-
Savielle