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MENGTSZ

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 im- portance, 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 via 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 coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1900 was Tls. 5,402,330, for 1899 Tls. 5,256,938, for 1898 Tls. 3,672,050, and for 1897 Tls. 3,451,765. The Chinese merchants avail them- selves largely of the advantages offered by the transit pass system, and the value of goods sent into the interior under transit passes during the year 1898 amounted to Tls. 2,325,431 or about 94 per cent. of the quantity imported. The climate of Mêngtsz is temperate and salubrious. Plague, which had nearly 1,000 victims yearly in the first half of the decade, has been absent from Mêngtsz since 1899. During the winter good sport is obtained, snipe and wild fowl being abundant in the plain, and some pheasants and partridges in the hilly districts. A new French Consulate was finished in 1893, new dwelling-houses 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. On the 22nd June, 1899, a riot occurred, in the course of which the Customs House and French Consulate were looted. The Compagnie Lyonnaise Indo-Chinoise opened in 1899 a branch to Mêngtsz. A railway from Laokay to Yunnanfu via Mêngtsz is projected and surveys for the whole line have been made by officers deputed by the Tonkin government. Several houses for the accommodation of the Railway Mission were built at Mêngtsz in 1900.

興安 An-Heing

DIRECTORY

COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE INDO-CHINOISE

A. Curti, agent

H. Gory

CONSULAT DE FRANCE

Acting Consul-C. Sainson

Interprète-Chancelier-J. Beauvais

(absent)

Médecin du Consulat--

Meng-tsz-kuan

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Assistant-in-charge-O, Tiberii

Assistant A. J. Basto

Assistant-H. E. E. Noel

Medical Officer-G. Barbézieux Chief Examiner---P. E. Milhe Assistant Examiner-E. Hubbard

Missions Etrangères de PARIS, Yunnan

Mission

Mgr. J. J. Fenouil, Bishop of Ténédos

and Vicaire apostolique of Yunnan ! Mgr. J,C. Excother, Bishop of Metro-

polis, coadjuteur

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

cher, pro-vicaires

Revs. Ch. M. de Gorostarzu, P. M.

Mandart, M. Oster, P. Bonhomme, C'. -

H. Maire, P. F. Vial, H. Tapponnier H. Badie, F. Ducloux, D. Piton Leparoux, C. Bailly, A. Kircher, Ringenbach, J. M. Le Garrec, G. Barnabé, Rossillon, Salvat, Liétard, Souyris, Hemery

Thibet Mission

Rev. P. P. Giraudeau, Bishop of Tiniade,

Vicaire Apostolique of Thibet Revs. J. E. Dubernard, L. L. Déjean, A. Leard, H. G. Mussot, P. M. Bourdonnec, J. A. Soulié, A. Genes- tier, P. C. Granjean, L. Tintet, J. Durel, J. Douenel, Villeseche, L. Moriniaux, Monbeig, Vignaul, Monbeig

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE

Postmaster-O. Tiberii

Postal Officer- E. Hubbard Postal Clerk--Cheung Ni-son Branches and Inland Offices -- Hokow,

Yunnanfu, Kaihua and Tunghai

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE; Admin-

istration Yun-kwei Provinces

Director-Sing Lee (Yunnan-fu) Engineer Ch. Jensen (Yunnan-fu) Manager-Pung Chuo Yi

Do. Yung-ling (Kailwa)

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