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LUNGCHOW-MENGTSZ AND YUNNANFU

DIRECTORY

CHURCH MEN'S MISSIONARY

SOCIETY-

關州龍 Lung Chow Kwan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME —

Commissioner—J. C. O'G. Anderson

Acting Deputy Commissioner-Lee

Peng Sheo

Assistants-Chan -kan, Huang Hsi Chi, Hui Sung Kai and Yeh Chaming

Clerks Tseng Yuen Po, Huang Wen Tsan, Law Chung Shing, Chan Sheung Yook, Tsui Yan Fung, Woo Ching Wha, Chen You Cheng, Kuan Chao Ho, Tang Shih Tan and Cheung King Chu

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Writer-Chi Hsi-fen Tidesurveyor-P. H. Oates, Examiners--Wong Cheuk Nam, Lin Dirk Chiong, Li Ping Kwei, Shi; Man Chung and Tang Chao Chi Tidewaiters-Cheng Pu Chao, Chen Yuen Hsiu, Lee Yih Ho, Huang Chao Kuang, Chang Kwang Hua, Chen Hsiao Shih, Chan Hwa Yuan, Cheng Kai Kit, Wang Cheng Chu,

Wong Yo Pei, Yu She. Yuen, Cheng' Koon Ying, Ling Ping Kwaung, Chang Kun Chong, Wang Ts'un Ming, Hsu Hao Nien, Luk Ta

Sheng, Wu Kuo Hsiung, Chow

Chia Chou, Chia Yum Chung

Hong Su Lang, Lau Yun Tsoi, Chao Chung San, Li Jone-liang, Yang Shang Si, Kuan Ching Hwa,, Tsing Pen Bing, Hung. Kit Chiu and Loh Koue-gno

FRENCH CONSULATE Cable Ad: Fransulat,

Longtcheou

J. A. Royere, consul for Longtcheou. and Nanning with Residence in Longtcheou

J. V. F. Tseng, Chinese clerk

FRENCH HOSPITAL

Dr. Ch'en Ting-wok

局郵州龍

OFFICE (CHINESE) Lungchow,

POST

Kwangsi

Postmaster-Tao Te-i

MENGTSZ AND YUNNANFU

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Méng-isz

Mengtsz is a district city in the south-east of Yunnan, and together with Manhao, a small village on the right bank of the Red River, was opened to trade by the Additional Convention to the French Treaty of Tientsin of the 25th April, 1886, signed at Peking on the 26th June, 1887. The town is two days' journey by pony from Manhao, but is only an hour's distance by train from Pishihchai, a station on the Tien-Yueh Railway. It is beautifully situated, being built on a cultivated plateau 20 miles long by about 12 miles in breadth, encircled by picturesque mountains, and is 4,280 feet above the level of the sea. The place was of much more importance before the Mahom- medan rebellion, as the numerous well-built temples, many of them now in ruins, still testify. The French Consul hoisted his flag at Mengtsz on the 30th April, 1889, and the Customs station was opened in the following August. Since the extension of the Tien-Yueh Railway to Yunnanfu and the removal of the French Consulate, the Customs headquarters and the Banque de l'Indo- chine to the provincial capital, Mengtsz has been dwindling into insignificance and its name is only remembered as one of historical importance.