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HOKOW

Hokow was opened to foreign trade by the Supplementary Convention between China and France of 20th June, 1895. A French Vice-consulate was established in August, 1896, which is subordinate to the Mengtsz Consulate, and an office of the Customs under the control of the Mengtsz Customs was opened at Hokow on 1st July, 1897. Hokow is picturesquely situated on the left bank of the Red River, at its junction with the Nanhsi River and is immediately opposite Laokay, an important garrison town in Tonkin. An iron railway bridge across the Nanhsi River, completed in 1902, now connects Laokay and Hokow. The village has some 4,000 inhabitants who live in bamboo houses and huts with thatched roofs. Hokow is about 420 l¿ from Mengtsz by land. The value of the trade is not separately stated in the Mengtsz Customs reports.

Hokow is the terminal station of the Yunnan Railway, now under construction.

CHARRIÈRE COMPANY

Ch. Pélissier, signs per pro. M. Morturier

C. Casulli

VICE-CONSULAT DE FRANCE

DIRECTORY

Gérant du Vice Consulat

Dupont (residing at Laokay)

BH Hokow-fen-kwan CUSTOMS-IMPERIAL MARITIME

Branch Office of Mengtsz Customs Assistant--N. H. Schregardus Assistant Examiner-R. Sarran Tidewaiter-F. Galignani Chinese Clerk-- Chan Man-to

Ch.

POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE

(Branch Office of Mengtsz Post Office) Acting Postal Officer--F. Galignani

SOCIETÉ DE CONSTRUCTION DES CHEMINS

DE FER INDO-CHINOIS (1st Division)

Ingenieur en Chef-A. Dufour (absent)

Do. Principal—A. Dumas

Ingr. Chef 1 ière Section-A. Bodin

Do. bis-G. Panciera

Magassiner G. Faucon

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE

Manager-Li Yu-ch'in Clerk-Chên Ting-hsi

TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)

越騰 Teng-yueh

Tengyueh, situated near the western frontier of Yunnan in lat. 24 deg. 45 min, N., and long. 98 deg. 30 min. E., was opened to British trade under the Burma Agreement of 1897 modifying the Convention of 1894 relative to Burma and Thibet. It is a sub-prefectural walled town built in a rice valley, watered by the Tieh Shui river, a tributary of the Tai-ping which joins the Irrawaddy a few miles above Bhamo, which place has been the principal frontier mart in Upper Burma for many years. The distance from Tengyuch to Bhamo by the ordinary trade route is about 160 miles, usually traversed in seven or

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