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Agencies

CHEFOO-WEI-HAI-WEI

World Marine Insurance Company Weinbau and Kelterei Gesellschaft

SINGTAI & Co., L. W., Merchants, Naval

Contractors and Storekeepers

Hoo-chin Leong

Agencies

Chefoo Bank

Chefoo Insurance Company

China Sugar Refining Company

Chefoo Filanda

美士

SMITH & Co., L. H., Merchants

L. H. Smith

D. Cappelen

J. Silverthorne

J. S. Holt

Agencies

"Chinese Eastern Railway

Comptoir National d'Escompte de Paris International Bank of St. Petersburg Russo-Chinese Bank

Russian Steam Nav. in the East Russian Volunteer Fleet

Law Union and Crown Insurance Co. Manchester Assurance Company

Union Insurance Society of Canton

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STANDARD OIL Co., of New York: Tel. Ad.

Hourglass

Burton F. Kreyer, acting agent

Stewart & Co., Merchants and Commis-

sion Agents

J. A. Stewart

橋高

TAKAHASHI, T., Commission Merchant and

Shipping Agent

TELEGRAPH COMPANIES

Great Northern Telegraph Co., Ld.

E. E. A. and China Telegraph Co., Ld.

S. S. James, superintendent

H. B. Frikke, acting controller E. Eden

J. Lange

J. M. Medina

J. Ribeiro

TELEGRAPHS-IMPERIAL CHINESE

N. S. Wong, manager

C. H. Sung, clerk-in-charge C. F. Cheong, assistant

WEINBAU UND Kelterei Gesellschaft

J. J. Block (Hamburg), H. C. N. Plam-

beck (Tsingtau), proprietors H. Sietas & Co., general agents

WEI-HAI-WEI

衝海威 Wei-hai-wei

Wei-hai-wei is situated on the south side of the Gulf of Pechihli near the extremity of the Shantung Promontory, and about 115 miles distant from Port Arthur on the north-west and the same from the German 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.

The harbour forms a deep bight or bay about eighteen miles in circumference, sheltered to the northward by the island of Liukungtao, which is about two miles long fromeast to west and one mile from north to south in its widest part, being approximately pear-shaped. The northern or sea coast of Liukungtao is composed of steep cliffs, while the opposite side is sandy beach, the intervening hills rising to a height of about 500 feet. The general appearance of the harbour is picturesque, the bay being surrounded with hills, the highest of which is about 1,600 feet. The town of Wei-hai-wei, which has a population of about 4,000, is situated at the north- west corner of the bay.

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