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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 1901 was Tls. 6,815,273, against Tls. 5,402,330 for 1900 and Tls. 5,256,938 for 1899. The Chinese merchants avail themselves 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 1901 amounted to Tls. 47,615. 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 mem- bers 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 Mengtsz 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.
DIRECTORY
An-Heing
COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE INDO-CHINOISE
A. Curti, agent
H. Gory
CONSULAT De France
Consul général-A. François (Yun-
nanfu)
Acting Consul--C. Sainson Interprète-Chancelier-J. Beauvais
(Yunnanfu)
Médecin du Consulat--G. Barbezieux Receveur des Postes-J. Chalan
WÉ Meng.tsz-kuan CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME
Assistant-in-charge-O). Tiberii Assistant-A. Wilson 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. Excoffier, 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. Ducioux, 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. Bourdonnee, J. A. Soulié, Á. Genes- tier, P. C. Granjean, L. Tintet, J. Durel, J. Douenel, Villeseche, L. Moriniaux, Monbeig, Vignaul, Monbeig
SERVICE DU CONTROLE DU CHEMIN DE FER Ingénieur-Directeur A. Caboche Conducteur principal -Richard
COMPAGNIE DU CHEMIN DE FER Directeur-Zaborowski
Ingénieurs de division-V. Prud-
homme, Fraix
Ingénieurs de section-Beneyton, Martial, Barès, Pouillaude, de Pau- liny, Despas, Muller, de Violini, Younes
Ingénieur chimiste- de Stampa Sous-ingénieur-E. Toucas
Médecin de la Cie.-Dr. Sureau Interprete de la Cie.-M. Beauvais Conducteurs-Chicoa, Neuray, de Voi- lini, de Legaudiu, Pierlot, Russac, Perrin, Panciera, Gandré Dessinateurs-Verlague, Notton, Por-
chon
Aide-opérateurs-Krozeuski, Desplan- gues, Damelio, Remersa, Bernard, de Boissieu, Agostini
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