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LUNGKOW-WEIHAIWEI

DIRECTORY

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CUSTOMS, CHINESE MARITIME

En 'ung and

Acting Deputy Com'sr.---Hsia Ting

Yao Assistants--Liu Chen Shan-yi Clerks Seng Siu Ching, Chang Chiung, Wang Tsu-yi, Chu Shu Cheng, Lee Po Chi, Ko Ching Tai, Ku Tse Dien and Yen Hsu Assist. Tidesurveyor--O. Smitli

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Asst. Boat Officers Cheung Hak

Ching and Shih Hsueh Pin

Examiners-T. Dawson and Han

Yu Lin

Tidewaiters-Wang Ting Tung,

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Wang Hsun Yuan, Kuo Pac Chen, Chou Teh Cheng, Liu Chen-min, Chuan Tseng Whe, Li Hsiu Ling, Wang Têh En, Chin Deh Chang, Yang Tze Yung, Cheng Jui, Liu Deh Hiu, Pi Jen Pu, Lee Tung Sheng, Wang Chao Han, Yoh Chao I, Ding Djen Deh, and Shih Hsüel Han.

ROMAN CATHOLIC MISSION'S DISPENSARY

Rev. L. M. Frederic

WEIHAIWEI

衞海威 Weihaiwei

Weihaiwei is situated on the south side of the Gulf of Pechili near the extremity of the Shantung Promontory, and about 115 miles distant from Port Arthur on the north-west and the same from the port of Kiaochau on the south-west. Formerly a strongly-fortified Chinese naval station, it was captured by the Japanese on 30th January, 1895, and was held by them pending the payment of the indemnity, which was finally liquidated in 1898. Before the evacuation by the Japanese an agreement. was arrived at between Great Britain and China that the former should take over the territory on lease from the latter, and, accordingly, on the 24th May, 1898, the British flag was formally hoisted, the Commissioners representing their respective countries at the ceremony being Consul Hopkins, of Chefoo, and Captain King-Hall, of H.M.S. Narcissus, for Great Britain, and Taotai Yen and Captain Lin, of the Chinese war vessel Foochi, for China. Weihaiwei was leased to Great Britain" for so long a period as Port Arthur shall remain in the occupation of Russia," and was regarded by the British Government as a sanatorium for the British squadron on the China station. At the Washington, Conference, in 1921 Great Britain offered to return the territory to China, and during the latter part of 1922 an Anglo-Chinese Commission met to deal with the questions arising out of this. These questions included arrangements for the use of the port by the British Fleet as a summer station, provisions for the safety of foreign residents, and the representation of foreign residents in the administration of the territory. Towards the end of 1934 the Chinese and British plenipotentiaries arrived at a complete agreement regarding the terms of rendition, and the Con- vention, was almost ready for signature when General Feng Yü-hsiang brought about a coup d'état in Peiping in November of that year. Negotiations were resumed in 1929 and carried to a successful conclusion in April 1930, by the signature at Nanking of the convention for the rendition of Weihaiwei, which was ratified and came into force on October est, 1930. It was accompanied by an agreement whereby certain naval privileges and facilities were granted to the British Government for a period of ten years, subject to renewal by agreement between the two Powers.

The former leased territory, which lies in lat. 37 deg. 30 min. N., long. 120 deg. 10 min. E., comprises the Island of Liu Kung, all the islands in the Bay of Weihaiwei, and a belt of land 10 English miles wide along the entire coastline, and consists of ranges of