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the temperature rarely exceeding 80 degrees (Far.) during the summer and seldom falling below 50 degrees in the winter months. The plague, such a common visitor throughout Yunnan, is as yet unknown in Szemao. The place is distant from both Yunnan-fu (the capital of the province) and Mengtsz 18 days, and from the frontier 8 to 12 days. It has rather a prosperous air about it, being a large market for tea and salt, and an important station for the transit trade in cotton from Burmah and the Laos. A telegraph line from Túng Hai, viâ Yuan Chiang and Pu Erh-fu, connects Szemao with the existing Chinese overland telegraphs, and another one from Szemao to "Moung Hou" (the first French post across the frontier) makes a junction with the Tonkin lines.
CONSULATE-GREAT BRITAIN
DIRECTORY
Acting Consul-J. W. Jamieson
CONSULATE-FRANCE
Acting Consul-Camille Sainson Chancelier-C. P. H. Feer Médecin- L. Gaide
CUSTOMS IMPERIAL MARITIME
Asistant-in-charge-A. Henry Assistant-F. W. Carey Examiner -F. Williams Chinese Clerk-Fung Shun-san
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