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Secrétariat

Secretaire-Yoon

CHOLON-CAMBODGE

Redacteur-De Fontaine Goubert Hygiène Janin

Comptable Passerat de la Chapelle Architecte de Voirie-Truitard Deseigneur-Alosius Conducteur-Declerc

Chef Surveyeur de Voirie-Ropion Surveyeurs Pétra, Didelot, Batas,

Julien

Municipal Treasury Receiver-Tritsch

Writ Server-Dessaints Commissioner-Maroselli Brigr. chef-Bonhomme Brigrs.--Bonhomme, Menu Sub-Brigrs.-Godaime, Viard

12 French police officers

Municipal Boys' School

Director-Assan-Achou

Municipal Girls' School

Directress-Madame Brézet

Teachers-3 native, 1 French Sister

Hospice de la Maternité

Directress-Mme. Pomet

Municipal Hospital

Directress-Madame Janin

Assistants-2 French, 6 native women

and 9 native men

Doctor Flaudrin, Dhoste

Eaux et Electricité-Vergoz

RIZERIE BAN HONG GUAN

Ban Guan & Co., agents générals

Tija Mah Yan, directeur général Lim Phuon, supérintendant Wee Mah Kim, compradore

J. Robertson, premier mécanicien Lightburn, second

Gotz,

third

idl.

id.

RIZERIE "ORIENT"--Head Office: Saigon,

45, Quai de l'Arroyo Chinois

C. Speidel & Co., general agents

O. Rings, accountant

H. Dettinger, engineer

W. Jantzen,

A. Sévérac,

do.

do.

Rice Department of Union & Orient

Rice Mills

P. Suedhans

R. Millour

RIZERIE, UNION-Head Office: Saigon, 45,

Quai d'Arroyo Chinois

W. & Th. Speidel & Co., general agents M. Bennecke, manager, Cholon

H. Bader, engineer

T. Müenster, do.

W. Steiner, ingénieur

YEE CHEONG AND YEE TYE & CO. RICE MILL

Quack Dam, director

Tran Ban, signs per pro. Quack Ngyen, signs per pro.

CAMBODGE

Cambodia, the kingdom of the Khmer, extends from 101 deg. 30 min. to 104 deg. 30 min. longitude E. of Paris, and from 10 deg. 30 min. to 14 deg. latitude. It was reduced to its present proportions in 1860 by the annexation of its two richest provinces, Angkor and Battambang, to Siam. Its area is about 62,000 square miles. It is bounded on the south-west by the Gulf of Siam, on the south-east by French Cochin-China, on the north by the French Laos, and on the north-west and west by Angkor and Battambang. The noble river Mekong flows through the kingdom, and, after passing through French Cochin-China, empties itself, by a number of mouths, into the sea. The Mekong is the grand waterway of Cambodia, and, like the Nile in Egypt, lays the greater part of the country under water annually, greatly increasing its fertility. The soil of Cambodia is rich and productive, and rice, pepper, indigo, cotton, tobacco, sugar, maize and cardamoms are cultivated. Coffee and spices of all sorts could be grown. Among woods, ebony, rose, sapan, pine, iron, and other valuable sorts exist, no less than eighty different kinds of timber being found in the forests. Iron of good quality has been discovered, and it is affirmed that there are gold, silver, and lead mines in the mountains. The fisheries of Cambodia are very productive, and salt fish forms one of the chief articles of export. Large quantities of fish oil being also produced.

Cambodia was once an extensive and powerful State, and proofs that it possessed a much higher civilisation than that which now prevails in the country are to be found in the architectural remnants of former grandeur. The noble ruins of the

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