HOKOW
Hokow was opened to foreign trade by the Supplementary Convention between China and France of 20th June, 1895. A French vice-consulate was established in August, 1896, which is subordinate to the Mengtsz Consulate, and an office of the Customs under the control of the Mengtsz Custoins was opened at Hokow on 1st July, 1897. Hokow is picturesquely situated on the left bank of the Red River, at its junction with the Nauhsi River, and is immediately opposite Laokay, an important garrison town in Tonkin. An iron railway bridge across the Nanhsi River, completed in 1902, connects Laokay and Hokow. The village has some 4,000 inhabitants who live in bamboo houses and huts with thatched roofs. Hokow is about 420 li from Mengtsz by land. The value of the trade is not separately stated in the Mengtsz Customs reports.
Hokow is the terminal station of the Yunnan Railway, now under construction.
CHARRIÈRE COMPANY
C. Pelissier, signs per pro.
關分口河
DIRECTORY
Hokow-fen-kwan
JUSTOMS, IMPERIAL MARITIME
Branch Office of Mengtsz Customs
Assistant--R. L. P. Bande
Examiner R. Raiteri
Tidew'trs. C. de Bedoire, A.A.J. Seck Surgeon G. Huillet
Post OFFICE, IMPERIAL CHINESE
(Branch Office of Mengtsz Post Office)
Postal Clerk--Chan Sik Yan
Societé de ConstructION DES CHEMINS
DE FER Indo-CHINOIS (1st Division) Ingenieur en Chef-A. Dufour Ingr. Chef lière Section-A. Bodin
TELEGRAPHS, IMPERIAL CHINESE
Manager--Li Yu-ch'in
VICE-CONSULAT DE FRANCE
Gérant du Vice Consulat--Gérant Ch.
Dupont
VICE-CONSULAT D'ITALIE
Agent Consulaire--Ch. Dupont
TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)
Teng-yuch
The trade mart Tengyueh-situated near the south-western frontier of Yunnan, in at. 24 deg. 45 min. N., and long. 98 deg. 30 min. E.--was opened to foreign trade under he Burmah Agreement of 1897 modifying the Convention of 1894 relative to Burmah nd Thibet, and the Imperial Custom-house was opened on the 8th May, 1902. It is a ub-prefectural walled town built in a rice valley and watered by the Tich Shui river, small tributary of the Tai Ping which flows into the Irrawaddy a few miles above 3hamo, which latter place has been the principal emporium of Chinese trade in Upper Burmah for many years past. The distance from Tengyueh to Bhamo by road is some 40 miles, and little more than half that distance as the crow flies. There are two ecognised trade routes known as the “old” and “ new roads the former via Nam- oung and Manwyne (where Margary was murdered), and the latter via Kulikha and fan-hsien. The "new" road ends at Man-hsien, from whence the journey to Tengyueh 3 made over the old tracks. Pack animals and porters constitute the only form of ransport, and the time occupied on the trip is usually about eight days. Pack animals eldom travel during the rains (June to September) when through traffic is practically
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