CHOLON-CAMBODGE
MAN CHEONG YUEN USINE A RIZ, Quai de
Mytho
Lun Luc, dit Nam Long, directeur
Su Chong (Tô Tong), superintendent Lassen, mécanicien-en-chef
MUNICIPAL COUNCIL
Councillors-Linger, O. du Crouzet, Jacques, Tran Tuong Thoai, Lam Quan Kien, Ong Phong Hoa, Khuu Tiet, Lam Thien Tong, Cham Leng Mayor-Laffont
Secretariat
Secretary-G. Guyot
Police
Commissioner-Lhermitte
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Brigdrs.-Gérolami, Pietri, Boulanger
Sub-Brigrs.-Denis, Muller, Stucker Municipal Boys' School
Director-Giroux
Professor-Mme. Giroux
Municipal Girls' School
Directress-Sister Adelphe
Teachers-1 French, 2 native Sisters Municipal Hospital
Directress-Sister Octave
Assistants-3 French, 4 native Sisters Doctor-Sartre, M.F.P.
Accountant-Passerat de la Chapelle RIERIE "ORIENT"
Roads
Architect of Roads-Truitard Draftsman-L. Ippolito
Chief Surveyor of Roads-Berthety Overseer of Roads-
Municipal Treasury
Receiver-Costa
Writ Server-Marydassou
C. Speidel & Co., general agents
RIZERIE DE L'UNION
W. & Th. Speidel & Co., general agents
SENG GUAN RICE MILLS
Ngo Chin Guan, manager
Nicol MacIntyre, engineer
CAMBODGE
Cambodia, formerly called the kingdom of the Khmer, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 104 deg. 30 min, longitude E. of Paris, and from 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angkor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam, on the south-east by French Cochin-China, on the north by the French Laos, and on the north-west and west by Angkor and Battambang. The noble river Mekong flows through the kingdom, and after passing through French Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Mekong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize, and cardamoms are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods, ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered, and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lead mines in the mountains. The fisheries of Cambodia are very productive, and salt fish forms one of the chief articles of export.
Cambodia was once an extensive and powerful state, and proofs that it possessed a much higher civilisation than that which now prevails in the country are to be found in the architectural remnants of former grandeur. The noble ruins of the ancient city of Angkor are monuments of a people much superior to the feeble race which now inhabits Cambodia. The Cambodians differ entirely from their neighbours the Annamites, both in features and customs. Polygamy is practised among them. The prevailing religion is Buddhism. The people are apathetic and indolent, and have allowed the trade to fall into the hands of Chinese, of whom there are about 160,000 in the country. The entire population of the kingdom in 1893 was 1,000,000. Slavery, since its abolition by the French Treaty of 1884, has almost entirely disappeared.
The Government of Cambodia is a monarchy, under French protection. The present King, Somdach Pra Maha Norodom, succeeded his father King Ang Duong in 1860. In June, 1884, Norodom signed a new treaty with France, by which the administration of the country was
was handed over to French
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