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WEIHAIWEI

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Weihaiwei is now a fairly regular port of call for many China coasting steamers ailing northwards from Shanghai, and there is a regular weekly service subsidised by Government to run all the year, carrying mails and passengers between shanghai and Weihaiwei. This enables the public to reach Weihaiwei via Shanghai At any time of the year. The harbour is well lighted by two lighthouses at the astern and western entrances. The climate of Weihaiwei is exceptionally good, nd the winter, though cold, is dry and bracing. A European school has been stablished for many years to which boys from other treaty ports, Hongkong, etc., are fent. A land and building society, formed in Shanghai, has erected several commodious European bungalows. There is a large hotel on the mainland capable of accom- nodating over 100 people, and also a hotel on the Island with accommodation for 50 to 60 people. Both on the mainland and on the island good roads have been nade round the coast by the local Government for the convenience of foreigners, and there are recreation and parade grounds in both places. In addition to the leased erritory there is a zone of influence over which Great Britain holds certain rights. It comprises that portion of the province of Shantung lying East of the meridian 12.40 extending over an area of 1,500 square miles.

The native city of Weihaiwei (which lies on the mainland opposite the island of Liu Kung) is a walled town of about 2,000 inhabitants. By the provisions of the Wei- haiwei Convention of 1898 this town remained under the jurisdiction of the Chinese authorities. The town is a poor one, and the greater portion of the enclosed area is not built on, but cultivated for vegetables. A Chinese sub-district deputy magistrate resides in the city of Weihaiwei.

No Customs duties of any kind have been collected at Weihaiwei during the British régime.

PORT EDWARD

GOVERNMENT

DIRECTORY

Commr.-W. Russell Brown (acting) Dist. Officers and Magistrates-A. A.

L. Tuson, S. L. Burdett (acting) Medical Officer-Dr. Francis Clark Financial Secretary-W. R. Haller Inspectors of Police A. Whittaker,

F. Forcey and G. H. Jennings

H.B.M. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT

Medical Officer-in-charge, Naval Depot Surg. Comdr. N. S. Meiklejohn, R.N.

ANNEX HOTEL-Tel. Ad: Mainland

ASIATIC PETROLEUM CO.

Teh Ho, agents

BRITISH POSTAL AGENCY

Postal Agent-D. Clark

Assistant-Y. C. Lee

會商務商海威

Wei Hai Shang Pu Shang Hui

CHINESE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-Port

Edward

Chairman-Ku Ming-hsun Vice-chairman-Sun Hsin Tien Secretary-Wang Ho Nung

Do. -Chih Ye Tang

CHRISTIAN MISSIONS IN MANY LANDS

Weihaiwei-

Mr. and Mrs. A. Robertson

Miss A. Gresham

Miss A. Rout

Mr. and Mrs. Whitelaw

Wenteng Hsien

J. E. E. Bridge Miss E. Daniell Miss E. Goulstone

Tashuipoh

Miss L. Butcher (T'sang) Kuanhsiachia

Mrs. S. Smith

Shangputon

Miss M. Le Tourneau

Miss S. Le Tourneau

Shihtao

Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Clarke

Miss A. G. Humphris

Miss Akers

Miss Wilson

CLARK & Co., D., General Mercantile, Naval

and Military Contractors--Tel.

Cleirach

D. Clark

Ad:

J. Clark

Y. C. Lee, signs per pro.

CLARK, DR. FRANCIS, M.D., Private Medical Practitioner and Government Medical Officer