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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 in 1899 opened a branch to Mengtsz. Others have followed in their footsteps and four large commercial houses in Indo-China are now represented. The last rail on the Laokay-Yunnan section of the Annam-Yunnan Railway was laid on the 1st of February, 19.0, and two months later the whole line -470 kilometres-was opened to passenger and goods traffic. A branch office of the Mengtsz Customs was opened at Yunnanfu on 20th April, 1910. Mêngtsz is now only 12 hours by rail from the Tonkin border and 22 hours from the coast. The British Consul has pointed out that not least of the benefits which the line should confer would be the provision of sanatoria for Indo-China, even, maybe, for Singapore, Bangkok and Hong- kong. If for twenty years, he says, the Chinese peasant could be checked in his ravages -there has been ruthless destruction of timber-the lake region of Yunnan would be- come a terrestrial paradise. Several houses for the accommodation of the Railway Mission have 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 greatly. During the last four years the Chinese Post Office has pushed its way into the interior till now the south-east of Yunnan is covered with a network of lines and nearly every town has its establishment.

惠普 Pu-wei

DIRECTORY

BERTHEL, C., Wholesale and Retail Drug-

gist, Dealer in Chinese Patent Medicines

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBacco Co.

F. P Long, signs per pro.

N. Treptan, traveller

CERCLE DE MENGTSZ

President-L. Flayelle Secretary-E. A. Chandoin M. Chaufour, photographer

CONSULATES

AUSTRIA-HUNGARY AND Great BritAIN Herbert Goffe, C.M.G., H. B. M. Con.- General (residing at Yünnanfu)

H. H. Fox-Officiating Consul General

CONSULAR AGENCY, ITALY

Count M. Sarnthein, agent (residing

at Yunnanfu)

FRANCE

Consul-L. Flavelle

Interprète Chancelier-C. Blanchet Médecin du Consulat-Dr. Strauss Receveur des Postes-Garde Directeur de l'Ecole Franco-Chinoise

-Laborie

GERMANY

Consul--Dr. W. Rössler (residing at

Canton)

COMPAGNIE FRANÇAISE DES CHEMINS DE

FER DE L'INDO-CHINE ET DU YUNNAN

Direction Générale (Paris) Directeur Géné al– M. Getten Direction de l'Exploitation (Hanoi)

Ing. en Chef, Directeur-Le Bourhis Agence Principale au Yunnan (Meng-

tsze)

Ing. en Chef, Agent Principal-G.

Langrogne

Adjoint à l' Agent Principal-J.

Jonery (Yunnanfu)

Interprete J. Roux (Mengtsze)

Ingénieur Chargé des Travaux-D.

Niflis (Mengtsze)

Ing. Chef de Service-Romieux (Yun-

nanfu)

Service Médical

Docteur-H. Dumont (Amichow)

Caisse Central du Yunnan-Morel

(Amichow)

關自蒙

CUSTOMS, Maritime

Meng-tsz-kwan

Commissioner-C. E. Tanant Assistants-M. Cupelli, G. Boezi Asst. Examiner-O. H. Schmitto Pishihchai Branch Office Assistant-A. Casati

Assistant Examiner-F. Pawelka Tidewaiter-L. C. Escot

Yunnanfu Branch Office

Assistant-R. S. Campbell

Examiner-N. J. B. Galletti Tidewaiter-L. Uydens

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