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WEIHAIWEI-TSINGTAO (KIAOCHAU)

WEIHAIWEI

АH FONG, Photographers-Island and

Mainland

F. H. Sze, manager

會總南嶺 Ling Nam Tsung way

CANTONESE CLUB

President-Lee Yick Chee

Vice-do.--Wong King Wan

Treasurer-Lee Fu Chee

Secretary-Yi Chao Chang

CHURCHES

ST. JOSEPH'S CATHOLIC MISSION

Father Prosper M. Durand, rector

UNION CHAPEL-Liu-kung-tao

隆和協

Hip wo loong

HIP WO LOONG & Co., Peanut and Oil

Exporters and Importers and Commis-

sion Agents-Tel. Ad: Hipwoloong

Yi Chao Hing, manager

HSIN CHONG & Co., Naval and Military

Contractors-Liukungtao

REUTER'S TELEGRAM Co., LTD.

E. E. Clark, agent

SIN JELLY-BELLY & Co., Naval Tailors-

Liukungtao

J. K. Chu, manager

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WEI-HAI-WEI IMPORT AND EXPORT CO.

(successors Weihaiwei Wine Import Co.),

Wholesale Merchants-Tel. Ad: Tailai

Y. C. Lee

F. C. Lee

H. H. Koo

Agencies

B. C. Shee

H. Chen

William Younger & Co., Ld.

Texas Oil Co.

WEIHAIWEI LAND AND BUILDING CO., LTD.

Lavers & Clark, agents

WEIHAIWEI LIGHTER CO.

Lavers & Clark, managers

勝永 Yung Sheung

YOUNG KING & Co., Army and Navy

Contractors, General Storekeepers

Teleph. 16

C. Y. Wong

S. T. Lee

W. C. Lin

Branch-Liu Kung Tao

W. K. Chi

YUEN CHONG & Co., Naval Contractors-

Liukungtao

TSINGTAO (KIAOCHAU)

州膠 Kiáu-chau

Tsingtao, situated at the entrance to Kiaochau Bay in Shantung, was occupied by a German squadron on November 14th, 1897, in consequence of the murder of two German missionaries, and Germany obtained from China a lease of the territory for the term of 99 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