As pointed out in a recent letter, the Chinese authorities have not hitherto giv any spontaneous recognition to the British occupation of Weihaiwei, indeed such an insignificant official as the Weihaiwei Sze ($8]),—who, by the way, is not the Wei haiwei Taotai, there is a misapprehension in some quarters on the point—persistontly ignores the Commissioner's instructions, as does the magistrate at Wenténghsien. Your correspondent little thought that, even as he wrote, higher authorities were to illustrate his contention in such a strip ing manner.
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