BRITAIN AND CHINA.
RETURN OF WEI-HAI-WEI.
AN AGREEMENT REACHED. Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn. PEKING, September 27. It is officially stated that the Wei-Hai-Wei rendition draft agreement provides that Britain shall return full sovereignty of Liukung Island to China, the latter allowing the British Navy to use l the anchorage after the Chinese Navy, and lending certain lands and buildings to the British Navy for the purposes of recreation and instruction. China will maintain Liukung as' a naval base. Similarly the whole of the leased territory on the mainland will be returned to China. Britain will return all Government lands and buildings gratis, China placing certain specified land and buildings at the disposal of Britain. The territory is to be governed by a Chinese Administrator, except the aforementioned territory.
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Waikato Times, Volume 96, Issue 15354, 1 October 1923, Page 8
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