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L. Schwensen

C. Volkerson

CHEFOO-WEIHAIWEI

TOURING CLUB ITALIANO

V. Chieri, president

W. I. Pedersen, electrician

R. J. Saunders

C. H. Soper

TELEGRAPH COMPANY-CHINESE

V. Y. Sheng, manager

S. Y. Kung, controller and clerk-in-

charge

W. S. Loh, assistant

THE WITWATERSRAND NATIVE LABOUR

ASSOCIATION, LIMITED

Cornabe, Eckford & Co., agents H. A. E. Emery

TRANSVAAL GOVERNMENT AGENCY

Agent-E. H. Barrington-Brider

WHA-TAI FILATURE

Sun Mong Ku

Cornabé Eckford & Co., agents

L. W. Sing Tai & Co., inanagers

行銀金正濱横

YOKOHAMA SPECIE BANK, Ld.

Anz & Co., agents

LADIES' DIRECTORY,

Anz, Mrs. O.

Anz, Mrs. W.

Basto, Mrs.

Black, Mrs. R. C.

Busse, Mrs. Chieri, Mrs. Curtis, Mrs. E. Curtis, Mrs. T. Eckford, Mrs.

Guerin, Mrs.

Gulowsen, Mrs.

Hansen, Mrs.

Jones, Mrs. J. C.

Lloyd, Mrs. W. O. Lyman, Mrs. Marco, Mrs. McMullan, Mrs. Meyer, Mrs. C. A.

Emery, Miss

Milbank, Mrs.

Erskine, Mrs.

Porter, Mrs.

Gelewsky, Mrs.

Schmidt, Mrs.

Schwensen, Mrs.

Siemer, Mrs.

Silverthorne, Mrs. J.

Smith, Mrs. Stooke, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. A. C. Unwin, Miss D. Unwin, Mrs. F. S. Weinglass, Mrs.

Wilson, Mrs.

Yufu, Mrs. K.

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WEIHAIWEI

衞海威 Weihaiwei

Weihaiwei 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. Weihaiwei was leased to Great Britain' "for so long a period. as Port Arthur shall remain in the occupation of Russia," but though Port Arthur was surrendered to the Japanese on January 1st, 1905, Great Britain has not announced any intention to withdraw from Weihaiwei, which the Government regards as a sanatorium for the British squadron on the China station.

The leased territory, which lies in latitude 37 deg. 30 min. N, longitude 122 deg.10min.E comprises the Island of Lin Kung, all the Islands in the Bay of Weihaiwei, and a belt of iand ten English miles wide along the entire coastline, and consists of ranges of rugged mountains and rocky hills up to 1,500 feet high, dividing the plains into valleys and river beds. The island of Lin Kung is barren and nearly treeless, and is formen by a backbone of hills rising to some 500 feet. The hillsides on the mainland, of which Port Edward is the chief port, are either barren rock or planted with dwarf pine and mountain river beds, the streams are all torrential, and choke up the valleys with sand The valleys are mostly undulating country full of gullies and

scrub oak trees.