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LUNGKOW-WEIHAIWEI
taken over by the Japanese authorities and recommenced operations on completion of repairs. Under the auspices of the Lungkow Harbour Office a new jetty, 650. feet in length and 300 feet in width, is under construction and is expected to be completed in October 1940,
Total tonnage entered and cleared under General Regulations increased from 107,254 to 282,660 tons.
DIRECTORY
CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME→
Acting Commissioner-S. Momikura Deputy Commissioner-K. Matsuoka Assistants Liu Mo Hsuan and M.
Marushige
Clerks - Wang Cheng Yen, Koo Hondah, Li Ju Pai, Chao Fu-kun, Tang Shih Tsai, Tang Hsi Liang and Liu Kuo Chun Tidesurveyor--Chien Shu Tung
Boat Officers-Chen Shu Chung and
M. Shimura
Examiner-Chou K'o
Tide waiters Liu Chen-min, Chuan Tseng Whe, Liang Yun Hsiang, Chin Deh Chang, Hsueh Heng Wu, Chen Sin Chuan, Lee Tung Sheng, Yoh Chao I, Ding Djen Deh, Liu Chia Jui, Sun Hsu Hsiao, Chao Yung Chuan, Lin Pao Kung, I Higashi, M. Kume, M. Takagi, Ma Yu Fen and Yui Pong Sien
ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION'S DISPENSARY
Rev. L. M. Frederic
WEIHAIWEI
衞海 威
Wei-hai-wei
Weihaiwei is situated on the south side of the Gulf of Pechili near the extremity of the Shantung Promontory, and about 115 miles distant from Port Arthur on the north-west and the same from the port of Kiaochau on the south-west. Formerly a strongly fortified Chinese naval station, it was captured by the Japanese on 30th January, 1895, and was held by them pending the payment of the indemnity, which was finally liquidated in 1898. Before the evacuation by the Japanese an agreement was arrived at between Great Britain and China that the former should take over the territory on lease from the latter, and, accordingly, on the 24th May, 1898, the British flag was formally hoisted, the Commissioners representing their respective countries at the ceremony being Consul Hopkins, of Chefoo, and Captain King-Hall, of H.M.S. Narcissus, for Great Britain, and Taotai Yen and Captain Lin, of the Chinese war vessel Foochi, for China. Weihaiwei was leased to Great Britain "for so long a period as Port Arthur shall remain in the occupation of Russia," and was regarded by the British Goverument as a sanatorium for the British squadron on the China station. At the Washington Conference in 1921 Great Britain offered to return the territory to China, and during the latter part of 1922 an Anglo-Chinese Commission met to deal with the questions arising out of this. These questions included arrangements for the use of the port by the British Fleet as a summer station, provisions for the safety of foreign residents, and the representation of foreign residents in the administration of the territory. Towards the end of 1924 the Chinese and British plenipotentiaries arrived at a complete agreement regarding the terms of rendition, and the Con- vention, was almost ready for signature when General Feng Yü-hsiang brought about a coup d'état in Peiping in November of that year. Negotiations were resumed in 1929 and carried to a successful conclusion in April 1930, by the signature at Nanking of the convention for the rendition of Weihaiwei, which was ratified and came into force on 1st October, 1930. It was accompanied by an agreement whereby certain naval privileges and facilities were granted to the British Government for a period of ten years, subject to renewal by agreement between the two Powers.
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