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WEIHAIWEI-TSINGTAO (KIAOCHAU)

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廠工 花 綉新威 Wei sing shu hua kung chang

WEIHAIWEI HANDIWORK Co., Manufac- turers and Exporters of Embroidery, Filet Lace, Silk Hosiery, Tea Services, Pongee Silk, Hair Nets, &c.- 54, West Street, City Cable Ad: Weising

S. C. Huang, Director

S. M. Chang, manager

Y. C. Huang

S. K. Tsung

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S. C. Tsung

H. Y. Chow

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WEI-HAI-WEI IMPORT AND EXPORT CO.

(successors Weihaiwei Wine Import Co.),

Wholesale Merchants-The Bund; Cable

Ad: Tailai

Y. C. Lee

F. C. Lee

B. C. Shee

H. H. Koo

H. Chen

Agencies

McEwan-Younger Ld. Gande, Price, Ld.

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

The Bund; Teleph. 16

C. Y. Wong

S. T. Lee

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W. C. Lin

Branch-Liu Kung Tao

W. K. Chi

YUEN CHONG & Co., Naval and Military

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 territories of the countries with whom Germany was at war. Shortly after the out- break 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

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 co-operated with the Japanese. H.M.S. Triumph and the destroyers Usk and Kennett assisted in the naval operations. Upwards of 5,000 prisoners were taken and conveyed to Japan for internment until the end of the war.

By the Sino-Japanese Treaty of 1915, China engaged herself to recognise all matters that might be agreed upon between the Japanese Government and the German Government respecting the disposition of all the rights, interests and concessions, which, in virtue of treaties or otherwise, Germany possessed vis-a-vis China in relation to the province of Shantung. This instrument was recognised at the time by Great Britain and France. At the Conference of the Allies at Paris, the Chinese delegates contended that any rights which Germany possessed should revert to their Government, in accordance with: