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RENDITION OF WEI HAI WEI

ANNEX I.

Stores to be handed over to the Chinese Authorities include the following:

Part of furniture in offices and houses. Telegraph cable (island and mainland).

S. L. "Alexandra," two boats.

All lamps and posts in streets and stores for lamps which belong to the

Administration of Weihaiwei.

Sanitary carts, mules and equipment.

Fire Engine.

Telephones, poles, insulators, wire and exchange.

Police uniforms (in use and in store).

Various police stores.

Cycles.

Rifles, etc. (in use by police) with ammunition. Telephone cable (island and mainland).

ANNEX II.

List of the Land and Buildings in the territory of Weihaiwei to be lease.t by the National Government of the Republic of China to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland:

The senior district officer's house, grounds and stables are to be leased for use as a consular residence and the non-commissioned officers' mess and grounds for use as consular offices.

The two foreign cemeteries, one in Port Edward and one in Liukung-

tao.

Block "A" of the former barracks is to be loaned for use as a British Club, provided, however, that, in case the said club should cease to exist, the building shall revert to the National Government of the Republic of China without compensation

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As regards the piece of waste land known as the parade ground, it is agreed that it shall continue to be used as at present as an inter- national recreation ground and golf course unless it is required for public purposes, including port development, in which case the Chinese Administration undertakes first to provide in lieu an equal- ly suitable recreation ground and golf course elsewhere. A map showing the land and buildings above referred to, with the

exception of the civil cemetery on Liukungtao, is attached.

AGREEMENT.

The Undersigned having been duly authorized by their respective Govern- ments have agreed as follows:

Article I. The National Government of the Republic of China will joan to the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a sanatorium and summer resort for the use of His Britannic Majesty's Navy a certain number of buildings and facilities, as detailed in the Annex attached hereto, on the island of Liukungtao in the Bay of Weihai- wei for a period of ten years, with the option of renewal on the same terms. by agreement or on such other terms as may be agreed upon between the two Governments. Upon the termination of the period of the loan all the land and buildings shall revert to the National Government.

Article II.-The National Government of the Republic of China will as far as possible maintain efficiently the existing system of municipal services on Liukungtao (i.e., roads, wharves, police, sanitation and lighting), conserve the existing forests, permit no brothels, permit the sale of no liquors or in- toxicants except in licensed premises, and maintain the present regulations