German Guns as Trophies From Our Own Correspondent Weihaiwei, July 12.
Admiral Gleaves, Commander-in-Chief of the American Squad-in. Chingse waters, paid visit to this port in his yacht last Thursday, to return the call of the British Admiral, Sir Alexander Duff, who, the previous week, paid a visit. to Chefoo for the purpose of calling on the American Ad-<miral. He only remained in port four hours and left. again for Chefoo. During his stay, harbour, H. E. the Commissioner paid an official visit to the Admiral.
Our Bund has had placed on it near to the Ma T'on jetty, two Maxim type of guns and one howitzer, probably used as a trench mortar, captured from the Germans. An inscription stating this is placed in front of the guns, both in English and Chinese. These guns came out from Home on one of the warships and were addressed to tharCommissioner, Sir James Stewart Lockhart, x.0.11.0.
The visitors -to this port this summer so far, are few compared with other years.
There is' evidently plenty of room at hotels.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.