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WEIHAIWEI TSINGTAO (KIAOCHAU)

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UNION CHAPEL Liu-kung-tao

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For the use of Non-Conformists of

H. M. Fleet

E., C. Ockenden (on furlough)

A. Whitelaw and wife...

REUTER'S TELEGRAM CO., LTD.

E. E. Clark, agent

SIN JELLY-BELLY & Co., Naval Tailors-

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Liukungtao

J. K. Chu, manager

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Sun sing mou yi kung sze 2

SUN SING TRADING CO., Importers and Exporters of Linen, Flax, Silk, Em- broideries, Laces, Hoses, Tea-pots, Hair-net, Pongee Silk, Shantung Products-7, The Bund; Cable Ad: Sunsing Weihaiwei

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Weihaiwei Handiwork Co, mgrs.

and proprietors

H. F. Tsung, signs per pro. S. L. Chi, sales manager

WEIHAIWEI LIGHTER CO.

Lavers & Clark, managers

"WEIHAIWEI MISSION PRESS

A. Whitelaw, manager

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社工織編綉刺新威

Wei sing sze sui pien chiḥ kung cho

WEIHAIWEI HANDIWORK Co., Manufac-

turers and Exporters of Embroi-

deries, Laces, Hoses, Tea-pots, Sil-

ver Wares, Hair-net, Pongee Silk,

Shantung Products-91, North St., City, Weihaiwe; Cable Ad: Wei- sing

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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

Agencies

McEwan-Younger Ld.

Gande, Price, Ld.

勝永 Yung Sheung

YOUNG KING & Co., Army and Navy

Contractors, General Storekeepers The Bund; Teleph. 16

YUEN CHONG & Co., Naval and Military Contractors Liukungtao; Cable Ad: Yuenchang

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C. L. Chang, manager

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TSINGTAO (KIAOCHAU)

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州膠 Kiau-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 Gerinan 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 Kiacchau, 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 23rd, Japan declared war against Germany, and took measures at lonce, in co-operation with the British, to blockade and invest the German territory of Kiaochau. The bombarane 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

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