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—470 kilometres-was opened to passenger and goods traffic. A branch office of the Mengtsz Customs was opened at Yunnanfu on 20th April, 1910. Mêngtsz is now only 8 hours by rail from the Tonkin border and 22 hours from the coast. The British Consul has pointed out that not least of the benefits which the line should confer would be the provision of sanatoria for Indo-China, even, maybe, for Singapore, Bangkok and Hong- kong. If for twenty years, he says, the Chinese peasant could be checked in his ravages -there has been ruthless destruction of timber-the lake region of Yunnan would be- come a terrestrial paradise. Several houses for the accommodation of the Railway Mission have been built at Mêngtsz since 1900, and, as a sequel to the immigration, rents, wages, and the cost of living for natives and foreigners alike have risen greatly. During the last few years the Chinese Post Office has pushed its way into the interior, and the south-east of Yunnan is now covered with a network of lines and nearly every town has its establishment. Both Mengtsz and Yunnanfu possess electric light installations, and in 1919 wireless telegraphy was instituted in Yunnanfu by Com- mandant Peri, of the French Army, messages being received from Lyons and Manila.
DIRECTORY
MENGTSZ
BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE
A. de Balmann, directeur
L. Richard, caissier
(agency in Yunnanfu)
Brunner,
Ltd.
Mond & Co. (China),
Reeves Brown, district manager Sole Agencies
British Dyestuffs Corporation, Ld. Borax Consolidated
Castner, Kellner Alkali Co., Ld.
Mond Nickel Co., Ld.
United Alkali Co., Ld.
Chance & Hunt
COMPAGNIE FRANÇAISE DES CHEMINS DE FER DE L'INDO-CHINE ET DU YUNNAN
Direction Générale (Paris)
Directeur Général M. Getten
Direction Exploitation (Hanoi)
Directeur Expl.-G.Chemin-Dupontes
Agence Principale au Yunnan (Mengtsz)
Agent Principal-J. Jonery Commis.-
Chef 2e Arrondissement Traffic et Movement-M.Andrieux(Yunnanfu) Service Médical-Docteur H. Dumont
(Amichow)
Caisse Centrale du Yunnan -- (Ami-
chow) Pergaud
FRENCH CONSULATE
Vice-Consul-M. Robert
Médecin du Consulat-Jarland Receveur des Postes--Bonnet
Directeur de l'Ecole Franco-Chinoise
-Nori
Meng-tsz-kwun
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME
Commissioner--J. D. D. de La Touche Assistants-C. de Montpellier, Chen
Shao
Tidewaiter-E. P. Laurente Pishihchai
Chief Examiner-J. V. Murphy Tidewaiter W. C. Loynes
Yunnanfu
Assistant-Y. H. J. Cloarec, Li Ting
Yuan
Appraiser--N. J. B. Galletti
Examiners E. M. E. Gallo, B. Polletti
Hokow
Assistant-J. P. Laucournet Examiner--J. A. A. Seck
Tidewaiters-F. R. MacKendrick, A.
A. Simoes, J. L. Baudot
HOTEL DE LA GARE
Fortin, manager
HOTEL DU COMMERCE
Kalos, manager
POINSARD ET VEYRET, Merchants
Rivett
YUNNANFU
ANDERSEN, MEYER & CO., LTD. F. K. Pilson, manager
ANQUE INDUSTRIELLE DE CHINE
M. Celieres, directeur de l'agence
M. M. Gauthier
M. J. Zamudio Hoang, compradore
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