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TONKIN-ANNAM

Laboratoire de chimique et d'analyse

-Joseph Perrin Cultes-R. P. Gauja à Tuyen Quang,

R. P. Girod à Phu yen Binh

YEN-BAY

Résident de France-Cambier Administrateur Adjoint-Marins-Collet Commis de 3e. cl.-Dubreuil, Bouillot Payeur-Jony

Service Administr.-Miquel Travaux Publics-Levasseur

Douanes-Préteigne

Postes et Télégraphes--Rives Médecin--Dr. le Tonturier

Garde Civile-Massebeuf, Vanderhaeghe

Verdier, Gendraud,

Carette, Jund entrepreneurs

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Transports Fluviaux :-Union Com-

'merciale Indo-Chinoise

Delbreil, Farcy, Jund, hôteliers

Union Commerciale Indo-Chinoise,

commerçants

Canque, Michel, Courteix, Phily,

planteurs

Exploitation minière-Marc, Dandalo

& Laug Nhon

VIETRI Gendarmerie Spinose

Postes et Télégraphes-Bardeould, re-

ceveur, Administration-Martin Travaux publics Cachon, Deman,

Duvernei,

ANNAM

The Kingdom of Annam is under French protection. It extends along the Eastern coast of the large Indo-Chinese peninsula, between Cochin-China on the South, Cam- bodge and Siam on the West, Tonkin on the North, and the China sea on the east, It is an extensive territory bordered by a chain of granite mountains covered with forests and having well-watered and fertile plateaux.

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The kingdom is administered by a Privy Council whose members are nominated by the Sovereign. Each ministry has the assistance of a Council. Since the Treaty of 25th August, 1883, France has had a resident superieur at Hué. For administrative purposes Annam is divided into 19 provinces: Than-Hoa (Th-H), Nghe-An (Vinh), Ha-Tinh (H-T), Quang-Binh (Dong-Hoi), Quang Tri (Q-T), Chùa Thien (Huế), Tourane, Quang Nam (Faifo), Quang Ngai (QNgai), Binh Dinh (Qui Nhon), PhuYen (Song Cau), Nha-Trang (Nh-Tg), Darlac (Ban Me Thuet), Muh-Thuan (Phan-Bang), Binh Thuan (Than-Thiet). The agricultural land bordering on the coast is almost exclusively devoted to the culture of rice, of which two corps a year are raised. Imports consist of products for consumption such as flour, wine, liquors, rice spice, also iron manufactures, all kinds of hard word, articles de luxe, cotton goods, &c., the annual value being about 7,250,000 francs, of which about one-fifth come from France and Indo-China. Exports comprise silk, raw and filatured, silk manufactures, and waste silk, ginned cotton, lace, cinnamon, gummed lacquer, oil d'arachides, pre- cious woods, ox hides and horns, dried and salt fish, &c.