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MENGTSZ AND YUNNANFU,

Mêngtsz since 1899. During the winter good sport is obtained, snipe and wild fowl being abundant in the plains and some pheasant and partridge in the hilly districts. A new French Consulate was finished in 1893, new dwelling-houses for members of the Customs service in 1894, and a new Custom-house in the spring of 1895. All these buildings are 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. In 1922, Messrs. Andersen, Meyer & Co., Brunner, Mond & Co., and Shewan, Tomes & Co. all closed their offices in Yunnan, chiefly because they found it impossible to do business with the Yunnanese. The last rail on the Laokay- Yunnanfu section of the Annam-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. Mêngtsz is now only 8 hours by rail from the Tonkin border and 22 hours from the coast. The Ko-Pi Railway, constructed practically single-handed by Mr. D. Niflis, a capable and energetic French engineer, was completed and through traffic from Mengtsz and Pishihchai to Kochiu started in 1921. The railway is miniature and travelling space cramped, but the time saved as compared with travelling in the time-honoured chair is of great importance. The British Consul has pointed out that not least of the benefits which the Annam-Yunnan line should confer would be the provision of sanatoria for Indo-China, even, may be, for Singapore, Bangkok and Hongkong. If for 20 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 become a terrestrial paradise. Since 1900, rents, wages, and the cost of living for natives and foreigners alike have risen greatly. During the last few years the Chinese Post Office has pushed its way into the interior, and the south-east of Yunnan is now covered with a network of lines and nearly every town has its establishment. Mengtsz, Yunnanfu and Amichow possess electric light installations, and in 1920 wireless telegraphy was instituted in Yunnanfu by Commandant Peri, of the French Army, messages being received from Lyons and Manila. There is to be a similar installation at Mengtsz.

MENGTSZ

BANQUE DE L'INDO-CHINE

DIRECTORY

A. Korwin-Zmijowski, directeur

C. Fournier

COMPAGNIE FRANÇAISE DES CHEMINS DE

FER DE L'INDO-CHINE ET DU YUN-NAN

Direction Générale (Paris)

Directeur-Général-M. Getten

Direction Exploitation (Hanoi)

Directeur Exploitation-G. Chemin-

Dupontès

Agence

Principale

(Mengtsz)

au Yun-nan

Agent Principal-Th. M. Romieux

Chef 2è Arrondissement Trafic et

Mouvement-Th. M. Romieux

Service Médical (Amichow)

Docteur-H. Dumont

關自蒙

Meng-tsz-kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Acting Commissioner-P. R. Walsham

Assistants-R. C. P. Rouse and Chang

Shih Hsiung

Tidewaiter-A. Grell

Pishihchai

Assistant-H. D. Ebey

Examiner-F. R. Mackendrick

DESCOURS, CABAUD ET CIE., Import and

Export

C. Fayard, agent

FRENCH CONSULATE

Consul-

Médecin-S. L. Jarland

Directeur l'Ecole Franco-Chinoise—A.

Rouilly

KALOS, A., Hotel and Store-keeper

A. J. Schaefer

YUNNANFU

ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE

Hon. President-Ch. Lépissier Presidts.--G. Cordier, Hsu Chih Ch'eng Vice-Presidents — B.

Chang Pang Han

Secretary-Ch. Chevet

Subira

Hon. Treasurer-G. Cordier Librarian-

and