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ASILE DE LA ST. ENFANCE

LUNGCHOW-MENGTSZ

DIRECTORY

Lungchow-Sisters Marthe, Suzanne,

Rosalie

CONSULATES

FRANCE

署事頜國法大

Vice-Consul-E. Point

官事領總利大意大

ITALY

Tai-i-tai-li-chung-ling-sz-kun

Consul General-Commendatore Z. Volpicelli (residing in Hongkong)

關新州

# HĦ Lung-chow-hsin-kuan

龍

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Asst. in Charge-R. C. S. d'Anjou

Tidewaiter T. V. Jeffery

Clerk-Kwan Kuo-hsun

COMMISSIONER OF THE FRONTIER OF

KWANG-SI

Tupan-Tan Hao-ming

Secretaries-Yang, Chèng

MISSION DU KOUANG-SI(Longchow district)

Rev. L. Barriere, Lungchow

Rev. Crocq, Taiping

Rev. Caysac, Haiyuen

局支政郵州龍

POST OFFICE, CHINESE

Postal Commissioner-L. C. Arlington

(Canton)

First Class Postmaster--Mak Tien Po

(Nanning)

Clerks Tong Hong Ngau, Pun Shien

Wen

Postal Agencies-Shuikowsi, Siatung, Pingsiangsi, Ningmingchow, Tai- pingfu, Haiyuan, Shangsze Kuan- tsien-yai, Tolu, Siangshui, Ming Kiang-ting

MENGTSZ

自蒙 Mung-tsz

This is a district city in south-east Yunnan, and together with Man-hao, a village on the left bank of the Red River, was opened to trade by the Additional Convention to the French Treaty Tientsin of the 25th April, 1886, signed at Peking on the 26th June, 1887. The town is two days' journey from Man-hao and about six days' from the frontier of Tonkin at Laokay, and beautifully situated, being built on a cultivated plateau twenty miles long by about twelve miles in breadth, encircled by picturesque mountains, and is 4,280 feet above the level of the sea. It has a population of about 11,000 persons, but was a place of much more importance before the Mahommedan rebellion, as the numerous well-built temples, many of them now in ruins, still testify. It is, however, a considerable commercial emporium even now, and is becoming an important centre for the distribution of foreign goods imported via Tonkin. The French Consul hoisted his flag at Mêngtsz on the 30th April, 1889, and the Customs station was opened in the following August. The net value of the trade of the port for 1913 was Tls. 19,678,916, as compared with Tls. 19,569,689 in 1912, Tls. 11,395,062 in 1911, Tls. 11,464,929 in 1910, Tls. 10,943,248 in 1909, Tls. 10,(95,114 in 1908 and Tls. 9,536,444 in 1907. The Chinese merchants avail themselves largely of the advantages offered by the transit pass system. The value of goods sent into the interior under transit passes during the year 1912 was Tls. 5,610,462. The value of the trade of the Yunnan-fu, Pishihchai, Hokow, Mapai and Manhao branch office is included in the Mengtsz Custom returns. The climate of Mêngtsz is temperate and salubrious. Plague has been absent from Mengtsz since 1899. During the winter good sport is obtained, snipe and wild fowl being abund- ant in the plains, and some pheasants and partridges in the hilly districts, but the presence of a large number of sportsmen of all kinds is making all game scarce. A new French Consulate was finished in 1893, new dwelling-houses for members of the Customs service in 1891, and a new Custom-house in the spring of 1895. All these buildings are

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