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WHAMPOA-LAPPA-CHINESE KOWLOON

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS

DIRECTORY

Assist. Tidesvyr. in charge-T. J. Lant Watcher-J. Ross

IMPERIAL TORPEDO DEPT. AND SCHOOL

Manager-Yau Au-din

Foreign Teacher-Pr. Lieut. E. Kretz-

schmar, 1.0.N.

G. L. Hummel

IMPERIAL DOCK YARD

Manager-Wang Chi-yan

NAVAL AND MILITARY ACADEMY

Director-Yang Shoo Proctor-Tong Yuan Too Teacher-F. T. Richards Teachers-Chinese

LAPPA

Lappa, also called by the Chinese Kung Pak, is an island, directly opposite the Inner Harbour of Macao, the distance across being from 1 to 1 miles. One of the stations of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs is located here, and another on an islet called Malowchow. Lappa is under the jurisdiction of the Heungshan Magistrate. It possesses no features of interest beyond the fact that it is the principal Customs station in the neighbourhood of Macao. The net value of the trade passing through the Lappa Custom Houses in 1893 was Tls. 9,640,989 as compared with Tis. 9,483,754 in 1892.

# #Kung Pak Kwun

DIRECTORY

IMPERIAL MARITIME CUSTOMS

Commissioner-E. Ohlmer Assistant J. H. Fougerat Do. -R. Markwick Do. -J. W. Loureiro Medical Officer-E. M. Alvares Tidesurveyor-T. N. Manners Boat Officers-D. Reid, F. G. Becke Examiner-L. Liedcke

Assistant Examiners-S. J. Grainger,

A. Bredenberg, J. G. Grape Tidewaiters-W. C. Blake, J. Moore- house, C. H. A. Käcker, J. Holliday, H. Marquardt, P. H. Nolting, A. Thompson, G. McKenzie, M. P. O. Zarowsky, M. J. H. C. Breitenfeldt, H. E. McCann, A. Kenning, M. Feller, V. Ostergren Watchers-Three

CHINESE KOWLOON

The station of the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs just outside the harbour of Hongkong, generally known as, and officially designated, the Kowloon Customs Station, is really situated at Lai Chi-kok, a tiny hamlet on the mainland opposite the western end of Stonecutter's Island. Two hulks are moored at a little distance from the shore, and buildings for the accommodation of the Foreign and Chinese staff, of considerable size and extent, have been erected on the point. Lai Chi-kok is not on the peninsula of Kowloon, though near to it, and is conveniently situated for watching craft bound for Canton. Kowloon City is situated at the back of the peninsula in a roomy but shallow bay to the north-east of Hung-ham bay, where the Kowloon establishment of the Hong- kong and Whampoa Dock Company is located. The city is a small one, and the larger portion of it is built outside the walls, which climb to some height the hill at the back, giving it a rather picturesque appearance. The walls are of granite, but of no great thickness, and neither they nor the old dismantled guns lying on them would be of any use for purposes of defence. There are no features of interest in the town unless the fan-tan shops are so considered. The streets are narrow and dirty, and there are no public buildings save the tower-like pawnshop and the dilapidated yamên inside the walls. A little distance from the city may be seen, however, one of those interesting little fortified villages, with embattled walls and a moat, which are not uncommon in the province of Kwangtung, and which serve to indicate the state of insecurity in which the rural