Word: weihaiwei
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnson, 63, onetime British Commissioner of Weihaiwei, China, tutor and counselor to the deposed Boy Emperor Henry Pu Yi (now Emperor Kang Te of Manchukuo); in Edinburgh, Scotland. Sir Reginald westernized his Manchu charge-watched Pu Yi cut off his pigtail, gave him the Christian name Henry, had his eyes treated by an American ophthalmologist despite the Dowager Empress' threat to give herself an overdose of opium if her son used spectacles...
...Hsuan Tung went back to his nursery. At the age of six, he emerged briefly to abdicate after the successful revolution of Canton's great Sun Yatsen. He continued to live in the Forbidden City, studying with his British tutor. Sir Reginald Johnston, a former customs official of Weihaiwei. and attempting to collect the magnificent salary of $4,000,000 that the Republican Government promised him but never paid...
...shoe store was opened in Shanghai with a challenge: "We propose to establish the first up-to-date chain store system ever attempted in China." Open or opening shortly are two Bat'a stores in Nanking, two in Foochow, two in Ningpo, one each in Chefoo. Soochow and Weihaiwei. Last week strapping, cleft-chinned Jan Bat'a could point to 50 chain stores operating in Java, 15 in the Straits Settlements, three in Saigon. Deliberately, according to U. S. consular reports, these stores are going after "not the trade of foreigners and the upper classes, but that...
About to be handed back to China, after 32 years of British tenure, is the lease of Weihaiwei (Way-hi-way) - 285 square miles of free port, walled city, fertile farmland. The draft agreement, last week at Nanking by Britain's experienced envoy, Sir Miles Wedderburn was hailed by optimistic Foreign Minister C. T. Wang as "the first step toward the return of all leased territory China now held by foreigners." (Last month Sir Miles rushed by warship from Shanghai to Lady Lampson's bedside in Hongkong, arrived just before she died.) The snug hill-bound harbor...