WEI-HAI-WEI–KIAOCHAU
POST OFFICE-IMPERIAL CHINESE
Officer in charge-A. A. Stubbs
RAMSEY, T. C., Commission Agent (Mateo)
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ROMAN CATHOLIC ORDER OF ST. FRANCIS
R. P. Adéodat
WEIHAIWEI LAND AND BUILDING CO., LD.
Lavers & Clark, agents
LADIES' DIRECTORY
Mrs. Bower Mrs. Bruce
Mrs. Gaunt
Mrs. Danson
Mrs. Penrose
Mrs. Ramsey
Mrs. Sparrow Mrs. Starr
Mrs. Clark
Mrs. Lee
Mrs. Rawscliffe
KIAOCHAU
州膠 Kiáu-chau
Kinochaa, in Shantung, was occupied by a German squadron on the 14th November, 1897, in satisfaction for the murder of two German missionaries, and on the 2nd September, 1898, it was declared a free port. It is held on lease from China for the term of ninety-nine years. Although the port is free in the sense that no import or export duties are levied, a branch of the Chinese Customs has been admitted, which takes cognisance of the trade between Kiaochau and Chinese ports. The Bay is an extensive inlet about two miles north-west of Cape Evelyn. The entrance is not more than 13 miles across, the cast side being a low promontory with rocky shores, with the village of Chingtao ("green island, from a small grassy island close to the land) about two miles from the point of the peninsula. On the west side of the entrance is another promontory with hills rising to about 600 feet. The shore here is rocky, and dangerous on the west side, but on the east side is a good stretch of sandy beach. The bay is so large that the land at the head can only just be seen from the entrance (about 15 to 20 miles away), and the water gradually gets shallower as the north side of the bay is approached. Kiaochau city stands at the north-west corner of the bay. There are two anchorages for big ships; one, the larger and better round the point of the east promontory, on the north side, and the other, smaller one, at Chingtao on the south side. The hills are nearly bare rock and gravel and limestone, but an extensive scheme of afforestation has been decided upon. soil of the valleys between the ranges and the plain country on the north-east is alluvial and very fertile, and is carefully cultivated. Wheat, barley, millet, maize, Indian corn, and many other grains in smaller quantities are grown. Concessions have been granted for two lines of railway running from Kiaochau into the interior, and there appears to be every prospect of the place rapidly becoming a great commercial emporium. The foreign residential quarter at Tsintau has been well laid out and there is a good foreign Hotel. The first son of the Shantung Railway was cut by Prince Henry of Prussia in October, 1899. There is a German newspaper published, daily and weekly, called the Deutsch Asiatischen Warte. The climate is temperate, and it is expected that the Bay will in course of time become a summer resort for the residents of Shanghai, there be- ing an excellent bathing beach.
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