KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN-PAKOI
SERVICE SANITAIRE
M. Lescure, médecin-major de 2e classe des troupes coloniales, médecin '' chief de l'Ambulance à Fort-Bayard, chargé des services extérieurs et de l'arraison- nement
SERVICES MILITAIRES Commandant d'Armes-Lecerf, capitaine
POSTE DE TELEGRAPHIE SANS FIL Chargé du Poste-Mutter
POSTES ET TÉLÉGRAPHIS
Receveur-Cazenove, 4 bureaux de Postes et Telegraphes à Fort Bayard, Tchékam, Potsi, Taiping
GENDARMERIE
Commandant la Brigade -- Merlin Gendarme Greffier Comptable de la Prison
Centrale-Merlin
GARDE INDIGENE
Inspecteur de le classe Commandant la
Brigade- Malberti
Gardes principaux, chefs deposte
Rastoul à Potsi
Bach à Taiping
Gafforj à Potao
Boucheron à Tongsan Lausent à Tai Soui
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VILLE DE TCHÉKAM Favey, administrateur-maire Lefort, gendarme, commissarie de police Nguyen van Phung-médecin auxiliaire
FORT-BAYARD
Chief-lieu du Territoire de Kouang-Tcheou- wan--en communication avec Hanoi et Hongkong Mission catho.ique Administrateur en chef-J. Krautheimer Adjoint-Rougier
Garde indigène- Malberti, inspect. de
lère cl.
Douanes-Garde, receveur
Enregistrement---Rougier, receveur Instruction publique-Imbert, directeur Juge de paix de Gentile
Médecin Les cure, major de 2e. cl. Payeur-Poli
Postes et télégraphes-Casanova, receveur
Commerçants-Laure, Nguyen Huu Thu dit Sen
TCHE-KAM
Résident Giraud, adm. de. 4e. cl.
Commissaire de police-Lefort, gendarme
PAKHO1
海北 Pak-hoi
Pakhoi is one of the ports opened to foreign trade by the Chefoo Convention in 1877. It is situated on the Gulf of Tongking in long. E Greenwich 109 deg. 7 min. (106° 47′ of Paris), and lat. N. 21 deg. 29 min. The British Consul hoisted his flag on the 1st May, 1877, and a French Consulate was established in December, 1887. Foreigners were well received by the natives and continue to be respected. Pakhor is the port for the important cities of Limehow and Chinchow, whence considerable quantities of foreign piece-goods, etc., were formerly distributed over the country lying between the West River and the seaboard, but now that the West River has been opened to steam navigation a part of the trade has been diverted to that route. The trade of Pakhoi in 1919 was Hk. Tls. 3,835,556, as compared with Hk. Tls. 2,829,734 in 1918, Hk. Tls. 2,721,226 in 1917, Hk. Tls. 2,996,090 in 1916, Hk. Tls. 3,053,361 in 1915, and Hk. Tls. 2,200,417 in 1914. The prosperity of the port has been steadily decreasing since 1888 and the downward tendency is almost inevitable; the opening of the West River Ports and the French free port of Kwang-chow- wan dealt a staggering blow to local trade from which the port has never recovered. The Chinese town is situated on a small peninsula, and faces nearly due north. It stands at the foot of a bluff nearly forty feet high, which deprives it of the south-west breeze in summer, while in winter it is exposed to the full force of the north-east monsoon, which very often blows so hard for several days that it materially interferes with the loading and discharging of steamers in the harbour. The bluff, or the plain above the town, is level for miles, which makes riding both on bicycle and on horseback a
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