WEI-HAI-WEI TERRITORY
HANDED OVER TO CHINA. BRITISH OCCUPATION ENDS. (British Official Wireless..* (United Press Association.) (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.) RUGBY, October 1. (Received Oct. 2, at 5.5 p.m.) The territory of' Wei-hai-wei is to-day being formally returned China by Britain after an occupation of 32 years. This is in. accordance, with the promise made by the late Lord Balfour at the Washington Conference H' 1922. The Pekin Government was overthrown the following year and only now that agreement could be carried, out. The'Chinese inhabitants have paid many tributes in the last few days to the British Administration, which, they say, has maintained the Wei-hai-wei area, with its population of 150,000, in a haven of peace during troublous years.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 21147, 3 October 1930, Page 9
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