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WEIHAIWEI-KIAOCHAU (TSINGTAO)

REUTER'S TELEGRAM Co., LTD.

E. E. Clark, agent

ST. JOHN'S CHURCH-Port Edward

Rev. C. R. Burnett, M.A.

ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC MISSION

Rev. Fr. P. M. Durand, o.F.M.

UNION CHAPEL-Liu-kung-tao

E. C. Ockenden, hon. sec. and treas. Preachers-Resident Missionaries

WEIHAIWEI LAND AND BUILDING Co., LTD.

Lavers & Clark, agents

WEIHAIWEI LIGHTER Co.

Lavers & Clark, managers

WEIHAIWEI MISSION PRESS-Liu-kung-tao

E. C. Ockenden

WEIHAIWEI SCHOOL

Head-master-H. L. Beer, L.C.P.

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Asst. Masters-C. C. Wilson, A. P. Jones Governess-Miss M. E. Beer

Domestic Dept.-Mrs. H. L. Beer, Mrs.

C. C. Wilson

行來 泰

WEI-HAI-WEI IMPORT & EXPORT

Co.

(formerly trading as Weihaiwei Wine

Import Co.), Wholesale Merchants

Tel. Ad: Tailai

Y. C. Lee

F. C. Lee

Agencies

Garner, Quelch & Co.

James Buchanan & Co., Ld.

Weihaiwei Tea-Pot and Chefoo Ponge

Silk Co.

Mrs. H. L. Beer

Miss Beer Mrs. Binny Mrs. Blunt

Mrs. C. R. Burnett Miss Butcher Mrs. Crosbie

Mrs. Duncan Clark Mrs. A. G. Clarke Mrs. P. D. Crawley Miss Daniell

LADIES' DIRECTORY

Mrs. F. Forcey

Miss Gresham Mrs. A. Gunn Mrs. E. N. Hill

Mrs. A. E. House

Mrs. G. H. Jennings Mrs. Knaggs

Lady Stewart Lockhart

Mrs. W. M. Muat

Mrs. Ockenden

Mrs. Roberts

Mrs. S. W. Roberts

Mrs. Robertson

Miss Rout

Mrs. J. L. Sands

Mrs. Smith

Mrs. Stewart

Mrs. Whitelaw

Mrs. Whittaker

Miss J. Wilson

KIAOCHAU (TSINGTAO)

州膠 Kiáu-chau

Tsingtao, situated at the entrance to Kiaochau Bay in Shantung, was occupied by a German squadron on the 14th November, 1897, in consequence of the murder of two German missionaries, and Germany obtained from China a lease of the territory for the term o ninety-nine years. When the great war in Europe broke out in 1914, Japan, under the terms of her treaty of alliance with Great Britain, intervened because the peace of the Far East was menaced by the German occupation of Kiaochau, inasmuch as the Colony constituted a naval base for operations in the East against the shipping and terri- tories of the countries with whom Germany was at war. Shortly after the outbreak of the war Japan advised Germany to disarm all her armed vessels in Chinese and Japanese waters, and to hand Kiaochau over to Japan with a view to its eventual restoration to China. Germany returned no reply to this communication. Consequently on August 23rd Japan declared war against Germany, and took measures at once in co-operation with the British to blockade and invest the German territory of Kiaochau. The bombardment of the place by land and sea began on September 27th and the garrison capitulated on November 7th after all the forts had been taken by a final night attack, in which the South Wales Borderers took part with the Japanese. H.M.S. Triumph and

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