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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 Aunam-Yunnan Railway was laid on the 1st of February, 1910, 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. Mengtsz 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 Mengtsz 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.

DIRECTORY

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE

Directeur de l'Agencé-M. Pihet

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.

F. P. Long, signs per pro. A. H. Treptau, traveller P. Safrany,

do.

CERCLE DE MENGTSZ

President-L. Flayelle

Secretary-E, A. Chandoin

M. Chaufour, photographer

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 p. i. Chemin

-Dupontės

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)

Chef 2e Arrondissement Traffic et Monvement-M. Romieux (Yun- nanfu)

Service Médical

Docteur-H. Dumont (Amichow) Caisse Central du Yunnan-Morel

(Amichow)

CONSULATES

GREAT BRITAIN

Herbert Goffe, C.M.G., H. B. M. Con.- General (residing at Yunnanfu)

FRANCE

Consul-L. Flayelle

Interprète Chancelier-C. Blanchet

Médecin du Consulat-

Receveur des Postes-Garde

Directeurde l'Ecole Franco-Chinoise

--Laborie

GERMANY

Consul-Dr. W. Rossler (residing at

Canton)

關自蒙

CUSTOMS, MARITIME

Meng-tsz-kwan

Commissioner-L. de Luca (acting)

Assistant-G. Boezi

Tidewaiter-F. Benoist

Pishihchai Branch Office

Assistant-A. Casati

Chief Examiner-N. J. B. Galletti Tidewaiter W. Burke Close

Yunnanfu Branch Office

Assistant-P. Vaes

Asst. Examiner--F. Pawelka

Tidewaiter-L. Uydens

Hokow Branch Office

Assistant--M. Cupelli

Tidewaiters-E. Pezzini, F. Barbé, G.

Poletti