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NANNING-KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN

DIRECTORY

ASIATIC PETROLEUM Co. (SOUTH CHINA),

LTD.-Cable Ad: Petrosilex

C. Thomerson

K. H. G. White

BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO Co. -

Lam Kwok Kon

CUSTOMS, CHINESE

Ad: Custos

MARITIME--Cable

Deputy Commissioner - in Charge-

Chen Shao

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Assistant-Tseng Chao Hua

Examiner-Chung Chak Nam

府事領國法大

FRENCH CONSULATE-

Consul-J. Royere (Resides at Lung-

chow)

MISSIONS.

EMMANUEL HOSPITAL, Bible Churchmen's Missionary Society, Nanning-Cable Ad: Bichmiso. London Office:

Office: 14, Victoria Street, S.W.I.

MISSIONS ETRANGÈRES-

Mgr. Albouy, évêque (Nanning) Rev. Pere Costenoble, provicaire

(Nanning)

Rev. Pere Labully (Liuchow)

Rev. Pere Cuenot (Nanning)

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Rev. Pere Dalle (Nanning) Rev. J. M. Epalle (Silin) Rev. L. Crocq (Kweihsien) Rev. Teissier (Siang Chow) Rev. Seosse (Kweihsien) Rev. Courant (Silin) Rev. Rigal (Siangchow) Rev. Caysac (Lungchow). Rev. Peyrat (Liuchow) Rev. Madèore (Liuchow) Rev. Maillot (Tai Ping) Rev. Billaud (Tai Ping)

Rev. Kerouanton (Liukiang, Kiang-

chow)

Rev. Bacon (Paksha)

Rev. Mamet (Paksha)

Rev. P. Leblanc (Liuchow)

KWANGSI MISSION OF SEVENTH-DAY

ADVENTISTS, THE-

H. S. Lei, director

L. J. Lilly, medical secretary

H. S. Lei, asst. treasurer

POST OFFICE-Kweilin

Tsang Yuk Ming, director Li Chih-chun, asst. director

STANDARD-VACUUM OIL Co.--Cable

Ad: Standvac

Dwight E. Thompson, manager Chan Wing Hun, marketing asst. Leung Fung Lam,

Tam Sai Fan, inspector

do.

KOUANG-TCHEOU-WAN

灣州廣

Kwáng-chau-wan

The bay of Kwangchauwan (or according to the French official spelling, Kouang- Tcheou-Wan), situated in the province of Kwangtung, was ceded on lease with the sur- rounding 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 Tanghai 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 Hongkong. 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