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ASILE DE LA ST. ENFANCE
LUNGCHOW-MENGTSZ
DIRECTORY
Lungchow-Sisters Marthe, Suzanne,
Rosalie
CONSULATES
FRANCE
署事領國法大
Vice-Consul-C. Lépissier
官事顧總利大意大
ITALY
Tai-i-tai-li-chung-ling-82-kun
Consul General-Commendatore Z. Volpicelli (residing in Hongkong)
#**# Lung-chow-hsin-kuan
CUSTOMS, MARITIME
Asst. in Charge—E. Lehas
Tidewaiter-J. V. Jeffery
Clerk-Kwan Kuo-hsun
OF THE FRONTIER
COMMISSIONER
KWAN-SI
Tufan-Ju Ping-chung
Secretaries—Yang, Chông
OF
MISSION DU KOUANG-81(Longchow district)
Rev. L. Barriere, Lungchow
Rev. Crocq, Taiping
Rev. Caysac, Haiyuen
局支政郵州龍
POST OFFICE, CHINESE
District Postmaster-C. H. Shields
(Canton)
Act. Sub-District Postmaster-F. L.
Smith (Nanning)
Clerks-Tong Hong Ngau, You Ming-
chang
Postal Agencies: Shuikowsi. Siatung, Pingsiangsi, Ningningchow, Tai- pingfu, Haiyan, Shangszè Kuan- tsien-yai, Tolu, Siangshui, Ming Kiang-ting
MENGTSZ
自豪 Mung-tez
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 4,280 feet above the level of the sea. It has a population of about 1,1000 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 vid 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 net value of the trade of the port for 1912 was Tls. 19,569,689, as compared with Tls. 11,395,062 in 1911, Tls. 11,464,929 in 1910, Tls. 10,943,248 in 1909, Tls. 10,095,114 in 1908 and Tls. 9,536,444 in 1907. The Chinese merchants 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 1912 was Tls. 5,610,462. The value of the trade of the Yunnan-fu Pishihchai, Hokow, Mapai and Manhao branch office is included in the Mengtsz Custom returns. climate of Mêngtsz is temperate and salubrious. Plague has been absent from Mêngtṣz since 1899. During the winter good sport is obtained, snipe and wild fowl being abund- ant in the plains, and some pheasants and partridges in the hilly districts, but the presence of a large number of sportsmen of all kinds is making all game scarce. 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
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