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MENGTSZ

自蒙 Mung-tsz

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 six days' from the frontier of Tonkin at Laokay, 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 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 1902 was Tls. 7,375,529, against Tls. 6,815,273 for 1901 and Tls. 5,402,330 for 1900. 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 1902 amounted to Tls. 3,234,230. 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 Custom 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 by a French Company, which has a capital of 4,000,000 francs for this purpose, 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.

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DIRECTORY

興安 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 Secrétaire du Consulat-A. Laroque Receveur des Postes--J. Chalan

Meng-tsz-kuan

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Assistant-in-charge-J. Neumann

Assistant-A. Wilson

Assistant-H. E. E. Noel

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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. P. Mandart, M. Oster, P. Bon- homme, H. Maire, F. Vial, Ch. M. de Gorostarzu, H. Tapponnier, H. Badie, Gandu L. F. Ducloux, D.Piton C. Bailly, A. Kircher, P. Duffan, K. Ringenbach, J. M. Le Garecr G. Barnabé, J. Rossillon, A. Salvat A. Liétard, J. Souyris, J. M. Hemery A. O. Fortin

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