Kityang

— The coolie class from Kityang and Swatow Districts emigrated in large numbers to the French possessions of Anam and Cochin-China, a fact which gave the French colonial officials the opportunity of exercising a great influence in the Swatow District. Sometimes these emigrants would return to their native country as French subjects or converts of the Roman Catholic Church and would be a source of annoyance to the government, which, of course, could exercise no authority over them.