Weihaiwely Nov. 13.
There are some annwial functions, Yor instance, on the King's Birthday and Armistice Day, when at the summons of the King's Representative there are gatherings of the community as 2 whole, irrespective of class or race, which serve more than one useful purpose; at which we find ourselves wondering Hf it is to be the last of its kind under the British flag; and which seem to give point to the old saying that threatened lives live long.
'The 1922 agreement regarding rendition was prepared at Weihai the joint Anglo-Chinese mission and duly published, but it did not find favour with' the Governments concerned. What is Known as the "1924 Agreement"
negotiated at Peking,.but not and undoubtedly the haiwei would have been restored to China at that ime but for the revolt the "Christian imprisoning the President, de: stroyed even the semblance of orderly Government and his ction inflicted ruinous losses on his quondam friend and leader, Wu Pel-fu, then involved in heavy fighting against the Manchurian warlord in the neighbourhood of the Great}
Wall.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.