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MÊNGTSZ

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 seven days' from the frontier of Tonkin, and is beautifully situated, being built on a cultivated plateau twenty miles long by about twelve miles in breadth, encircled by picturesque mountains,. and 4,580 feet above the level of the sea. It has a population of about 12,000 persons, but before the Mahommedan rebellion was a place of much more importance, 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 viâ 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 value of the trade for 1894 was Tls, 2,185,200 as compared with Tls. 2,259,494 in 1893. The Chinese merchants avail themselves largely of the advan- tages offered by the transit pass system, and the value of goods sent into the interior under transit passes during the year 1894 amounted to Tls. 1,146,534, or a little more than 92 per cent. of the quantity imported. The climate of Mêngtsz is temperate and salubrious, though every year, principally in the hot season, the plague makes numerous victims there and throughout the province among the natives. In 1895 the plague appeared later than usual-July instead of May--but only left towards the end of September, the ordinary period of three months having been required for the disease to play it out. The number of victims is stated to have been about a thousand but no really trustworthy statistics are obtainable. During the winter good sport is obtained; snipe and wild fowl being abundant in the plain, and pheasant and partridge in the hilly districts. A new French Consulate was finished in 1893, new dwelling house for members of the Customs service, in 1894, and a new Custom House in the spring of 1895. All these buildings are outside the East gate of the city. No foreign merchants have as yet started business in Mêngtsz.

CONSULAT DE FRANCE

DIRECTORY

Consul-Mee. Dejean de la Bâtie Interpte.-Chancelier-Albert Launay Commis de Résdce. (détaché)--Durand

Mong-tsz-kuan

CUSTOMS IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-Francis A. Carl

Assistant-W. Hancock

Do. -H. W. Brazier

Do, and Med. Officer-J. Michond

Assistant Examiner-W. J. Lye Tidewaiter-F. W. Carey

MISSION ETRANGÈRES DE PARIS

Yunnan Mission

Mgr. J. J. Fenouil, Bishop of Ténédos and Vicaire Apostolique of Yunnan Mgr. J. C. Escoffier, Bishop of Metro-

polis, coadjuteur

Rev. E. C. Maire, Rev. J. M. Leguil-

cher, pro-vicaires

Rev. Cli. M. de Gorostarzu, procureru Revs. J. M. Delavay, P. M. Maudart,

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M. Oster. P. Bonhomme, C. H. Maire, P. F. Vial, L. C. Bouillon, C. F. Masson, H. A. Mathon, H. Tappon- nier, H. Badie, L. Gaudu, F. Du- cloux, D. Piton, Leparoux, U. E. Blondel, C. Bailly, A. Kircher, P. Duffau, Reigenbach, J. Coulmont, J. M. La Garric, G. Barnabé, Ros- sillon, Salvat

Thibet Mission

Rev. F. Birt, Bishop of Diana and

Vicaire Apostolique of Thibet Revs. J. E. Dubernard, L. L. Déjean, P. P. Girandeau, M. B. Conroux, A. Leard, H. G. Mussot, P. M. Bour- donnec, J. A. Soulié, A. Genester, P. C. Granjean, L. Tintet, J. Durel, J. Douenel

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE; Admin-

istration Yun-kwei Provinces

Director-Li Pi-ch'ang (Yun-nan-fu) Engineer-Ch. Jensen (Yun-nan-fu) Manager-Li Min-hsin