Robertson in command, has acted as our local garrison, replaced a month Company with Major Grune as 0.C. Troops.
No reference to the presence of British soldiers at Weihaiwei would be complete which does not refer to their general good conduct, their discipline and self-control, which have been most praiseworthy and creditable to them and the country that has sent them, The Anti-Motor Ordinance Whoever else might be able to muddle along without the assistance
of modern times, the internal cent of one of the most useful inventiong bution engine, the British Army cannot, and not least of wonderful happenings of a wonderful year is the advent of the motor car on the roads of Weihaiwei for the first time in history. To the astonishment of our local Jeremiahs, the importation of two sma and an ambulance car no serious nctidents: no bridges have collapsed: road surfaces have not been torn to pieces.
With this object lesson before us and inspired, no doubt, by the new progressive spirit in our midst, the Toco! government has placed' an order for two motor cycles and sidecars to facilitate quick communication with the outlying police stations, Further, the police stations along the Chefoo Road are to connected up by telephone Port Edward for a distance of about 12 miles. It is also practically decided, I understand, to carry out a project, originally put for ward some 15 years ago, to connect ud] the two highways that tra. verse the Territory, east and south, by a cross-country road near our boundary. There is yet one thing needed and the day cannot be far distant when the anti-motor ordinance, begotten of prejudice and ignorance, will be consigned to the serap-heap.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.