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NANNING-KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),

LTD.

G. C. Humphreys

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co.

Lam Kwok Kon

CONSULATES

AMERICAN CONSULATE

Consul (residing at British Con-

cession, Shameen, Canton)

BRITISH CONSULATE

Consul (residing at Canton)

府事領國法大

FRENCH CONSULATE

Consul (resides at Lungchow)

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME-Tel. Ad:

Custos

Assist.-in-charge-Fong Kun Chiu Examiner-Li Shu Nam

MISSIONS

EMMANUEL MEDICAL MISSION

Dr. H. Lechmere Clift

Miss Baird (absent)

Dr. H. Rice

Rev. Wilfred Stott

MISSIONS ETRANGÈRES

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Rev. Pere Costenoble, superieur Rev. Pere Labully

Rev. Pere Barriere (Lungchow) Rev. Pere Albouy (Pesha)

Rev. C. Pelamourgues (Yungfu) Rev. J. M. Epalle (Silin) Rev. L. Crocq (Tai Ping) Rev. Teissier (Siang Chow) Rev. Seosse (Kweihsien) Rev. Courant (Silin) Rev. Seguret (Silung) Rev. Maurand (Silung) Rev. Rigal (Yungfu) Rev. Cuenot

Rev. Caysac (Haiyuan)

Rev. Heraud (Sünchow)

Rev. Peyrat (Luchay)

Rev. Dalle

SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST MISSION

P. V. Thomas and wife

Dr. D. Coffin and wife

POST OFFICE

Commissioner-Loo Yuk Shuen

1st Class Postmaster

(Wuchow)

985

Tye Pao-hua

STANDARD OIL Co. OF NEW YORK-Tel.

Ad: Socony

Hung Sau Sun

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 situated between 20 deg. 45 min. and 21 deg. 17 min. north latitude, and 107 deg. 55 min. and 108 deg. 16 min. east longitude at a distance more or less 230 miles west-south west of Hongkong. 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

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