Directory_and_Chronicle_1927 — Page 965

NANNING—KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co.

S. H. Clark, manager

BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACco Co.

DIRECTORY

CUSTOMS, MARITIME-Tel. Ad: Custos

Acting Commissioner-C. M. Petterson

Examiner A. Einarson

府事領國法大

FRENCH CONSULATE

Acting Consul-M. Rougni (resides at

Lungchow)

MISSIONS

CHRISTIAN AND MISSIONARY ALLIANCE.....

EMMANUEL MEDICAL MISSION

Miss Ruth Field Miss Baird

Miss Highton

MISSIONS ETRANGÈRES

Monseigneur Ducoeur, evêque Rev. Pere Labully (Kweihsien) Rev. Pere Barriere (Lungchow) Rev. Pere Albouy (Pesha)

Rev. F. Poulat (Kweihsien)

Rev. C. Pelamourgues (Kweilin)

Rev. J. M. Epalle (Silin)

Rev. H. Costenoble Rev. L. Crocq Rev. Teissier

Rev. Seosse (Kweihsien) Rev. Courant (Silin) Rev. Seguret (Silung) Rev. Maurand do. Rev. Rigal (Yungfu) Rev. Cuenot (Luchai) Rev. Caysac (Haiyuan) Rev. Heraud (Sünchow) Rev. Peyrat (Luchay) Rev. Dalle

PENTECOSTAL MISSION

987

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MISSION

Pastor P. V. Thomas (director), and wife Dr. D. D. Coffin and wife

POST OFFICE

Commissioner-Cheung Man-ling Deputy do. -Sun Tzu-hsi

District Accountant-Lin Po-cheung 1st Class Postmaster-Lin Si Nan

(Kweilin)

1st Class Postmaster - Tsu Ka Kau

(Wuchow)

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK-Tel.

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KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN

灣州廣 Kwáng-chau-wan

The bay of Kwangchau (or according to the French official spelling, Kouang-Tcheou- Wan), situated in the province of Kwangtung, was ceded on lease with the surrounding territories by a Convention between France and China, and occupied by the French on the 22nd of April, 1898. It is comprised between the 20 deg. 45 min. and the 21 deg. 17 min. north latitude, and the 107 deg. 55 min. and 108 deg. 16 min. east longitude to a distance more or less of 230 miles of Hongkong, W.S.W. The two islands of Nao-tcheou and Tang-hai placed at the entrance of the bay make an excellent closed port into which entrance is by two narrow passages. The port measures about 15 miles long, and for about half of its length it is three or four miles in breadth. The depth of anchorage of 20 metres extends over a length of more than 10 miles and borders on the extremity of the junk port of Tchekam, an important commercial centre in constant communication with Macao, Hongkong, Hainan and Pakhoi. The neighbouring districts are well cultivated, and it is believed mineral beds will be found. The new French territory is only separated from the valley of the West River by chains of hills. Following the Convention of delimitation signed on the 16th of November, 1899, between Marshal Sou and Admiral Courrejolles, the territory