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12,000 persons, but was a place of much more importance, before the Mahommedan rebellion, 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 estimated value of the trade coming under the cognisance of the Foreign Customs for 1903 was Tls. 6,435,578 against Tls. 7,375,529 for 902, Tls. 6,815,273 for 1901 and Tls. 5,402,330 for 1900. The Chinese mer- chants avail themselves largely of the advantages offered by the transit pass system. The value of goods sent into the interior under transit passes during the year 1903 amounted to Tls. 2,775,000, showing a shrinking of half a million taels as compared with the returns of the previons year. The climate of Mêngtsz is temperate and salubrious. Plague, which had nearly 1,000 victims yearly in the first half of the last decade, has been absent from Mengtsz 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 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 Mêngtsz is projected by a French Company, which has a capital of 4,000,000 francs for this purpose. Surveys for the whole line have been made by officers deputed by the Tonkin Government and the work of construction is now in progress. Several houses for the accommodation of the Railway Mission havę been built at Mêngtsz since 1900 and as a sequel to the immigration, rents, wages and the cost of living for natives and foreigners alike have risen grealty.

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DIRECTORY

COMPAGNIE LYONNAISE INDO-CHINOISE

A. Curti, agent

H. Gory

CONSULAT DE FRANCE

Acting Consul—C. Sainson Interpr.-Chancelier-J.Beauvais (abt.) Médecin du Consulat~G. Barbezieux Secrétaire du Consulat (absent) Receveur des Postes—F. Michaud

Meng-tez-kuan

CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Commissioner-J. Neumann Assistant-A. Wilson Assistant-H. E. E. Noel Medical Officer-G. Barbézieux Chief Examiner-P. E. Milhe Assistant Examiner-C. Burno

MISSIONS ETRANGÈRES DE PARIS, Yunnan

Mission

Vicaire apostolique-Mgr. J. Fenouil,

eoeque de Tenedos

Coadjuteur-Mgr. Excoffier, eoeque de

Metropolis

Provicaires E. E. Maire, J. M.

Leguilcher

Missionnaires-M.Oster, P.Bonhomme H. Naire, F. Vial, C. de Gorostarzu, H. Tapponnier, H. Badie, L. Gandu, F. Ducloux, C. Leparoux, D. Piton, C. Bailly, A. Kircher, P. Duffan, F. Ringenbach, J. M. Le Garrec, G. Barnabé, J. Rossillon, A. Salvat, A. Liétard, J. Souyris, J. M. Hemery, A. Fortin

SERVICE DU CONTRÔLE DU CHEMIN DE FER Ingénieur-Directeur-A. Caboche

Societe de Construction de Che- mins de fer Indo Chinois (Ligne de Lao Kay à Yunnansen) Siège Social à Paris, 6 Boulevard de la Madeleine; Adresse télégraphique--Chemindo, Paris, Haiphong, Hanoi, Lao-kay. Mengtze

Directeur des Travaux-L. Guibert,

Mengtze

Répresentant au Tonkin-J. de Fraz,

41 Boulevard Carrau, Hanoi Ingénieurs en chef divisionnaires-A. Dufour, Mengtze; V. Prud'homme, Ileang Hien

Chef de la Comptabilité—A. Delacour,

Mengtze

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