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, coinpleted in 1902, 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 li 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.
CHARRIERE COMPANY
Ch. Pélissier, signs per pro.
VICE-CONSULAT DE FRANCE
DIRECTORY
Gérant du Vice Consulat--Consul
at Laokay
VICE-CONSULAT D'ITALIE
Agent Consulaire-Ch. Dupont
關分口河
Bjo
Hokow-fen-kwan
CUSTOMS--IMPERIAL MARITIME
Branch Office of Mengtsz Customs
Assistant--H. Picard Destelan
Tidew'trs-S. Woxen, H. M. S. Moreau
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
(Branch Office of Mengtsz Post Office)
Postal Clerk-Kwok Kwang-chi
SOCIETÉ DE CONSTRUCTION DES CHEMINS
DE FER INDO-CHINOIS (1st Division) Ingenieur en Chef-A. Dufour
Do. Principal-A. Dumas Ingr. Chef I ière Section—A. Bodin
Do. bis-G. Panciera Magassiner G. Faucon
TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Manager-Li Yu-ch'in
TENGYUEH (MOMEIN)
Teng-yuch
The trade mart Tengyuch-situated near the south-western frontier of Yunnan, in lat. 24 deg. 45 min. N., and long. 98 deg. 30 min. E.--was opened to Foreign trade under the Burma Agreement of 1897 modifying the Convention of 1894 relative to Burma and Thibet, and the Imperial Custom-house was opened on the 8th May, 1902.
It is a sub-prefectural walled town built in a rice valley and watered by the Tieh Shui river, a small tributary of the Tai Ping which flows into the Irrawaddy a few miles above Bhamo, which latter place has been the principal emporium of Chinese trade in Upper Borma for many years past. The distance from Tengyuch to Bhamo by road is some 140 miles, and little more than half that distance as the crow flies. There are two recognised trade routes known as the "old" and "new" roads-the former via Nam- poung and Manwyne (where Margary was murdered), and the latter via Kulikha and Man-hsien. The "new" road ends at Man-hsien, from whence the journey to Tengyueh is made over the old tracks, Pack animals and porters constitute the only form of
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