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LUNGKOW-WEIHAIWEI

rate to Dairen than would be possible from Chefoo or Tsingtao, especially when the railway is completed connecting Lungkow with Weihsien.

The trade of the port coming under the cognisance of the Chinese Maritime Customs amounted to Hk. Tls. 7,206,989 in 1923, as compared with Hk. Tls. 5,961,426 in 1922, and Hk. Tls. 5,871,878 in 1921. The principal staple of the port is vermicelli, the local brand being, in the estimation of Chinese consumers, supreme in quality. The export of this commodity has risen from 31,017 piculs in 1917 to 145,443 piculs in 1923. A small factory for making isinglass from seaweed, another for making glass- ware from imported broken glass, started operations in 1921, a third now exists for preparing bean oil, and a factory for making a fluted tile from red earth has been doing a good trade for some time.

An imposing theatre was erected during the year 1922, capable of seating over a thousand people. The site is about half way between the northern limit of the old town and the new pier. Next to this building a number of small enter- tainment houses have sprung up, and the occupation of these by singers and actors, it is hoped, will be an inducement to land investment in that direction, instead of east and south as matters now stand. The following buildings have been erected in the New Settlement. Head Quarters of General Chao, formerly stationed at Hwanghsien, new offices for the Chief of the Lungkow Trade Mart Bureau, and the Chên Hsing Match Factory. The Fishing Guild, also, has moved over into the New Settlement, and further development is anticipated by the local optimist.

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BRITISH-AMERICAN TOBACCO (CHINA), LTD.

-Tel. Ad: Powhattan

CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

Deputy Commissioner- R. T Nelson Chinese Assistant-Wang Yü Lin Clerk-Jên Chin Ming

Actg. Assist. Boat Officer-W. Jenkins Examiner-W. Uhlich

Tidewaiters-Sun Hsüeh Tsêng, and

Henry Shao Chüan

STANDARD OIL CO.

HWANG HSIEN

(Distant 14 miles, local motor car

service, twice daily)

NORTH CHINA MISSION

Ayers, Bryan, Hartwell, Glass, Lea vell, Pruitt, Lide and families, Mr. MacCrae and the Misses Knight, Wright, Hutton, Lide, Lawton and Bradley, representing the Warren Hospital, and two Collages for Boys and Girls, in the higher forms of which joint education has been amicably established

WEIHAIWEI

衞海威 Weihaiwei

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