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Originally appearing in Volume V15, Page 783 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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KIAOCHOW See also:

BAY

BAY , a large inlet on the See also:

south See also:

side of the promontory of Shantung, in See also:

CHINA

China. It was seized in See also:

NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1897 by the See also:

German See also:

FLEET

fleet, nominally to secure reparation for the See also:

MURDER

murder of two German missionaries in the See also:

province of Shantung. In the negotiations which followed, it was arranged that the bay and the See also:

LAND

land on both sides of the entrance within certain defined lines should be leased to See also:

Germany for 99 years. During the continuance of the See also:

LEASE (derived through the Fr. from the Lat. laxare, to loosen)

lease Germany exercises all the rights of territorial See also:

SOVEREIGNTY

sovereignty, including the right to erect fortifications. The See also:

AREA

area leased is about 117 sq. m., and over a further area, comprising a See also:

ZONE (Gr. 'WV77, a girdle, from 'wvvLvay to gird)

zone of some 32 m., measured from any point on the See also:

SHORE

shore of the bay, the See also:

CHINESE, JAPANESE AND

Chinese See also:

government may not issue any ordinances without the consent of Germany. The native See also:

POPULATION (Lat. populus, people; populare, to populate)

population in the ceded area is about 6o,000. The German government in 1899 declared Kiaochow a See also:

FREE

free See also:

PORT

port. By arrangement with the Chinese government a See also:

BRANCH (from the Fr. branche, late Lat. branca, an animal's paw)

branch of the Imperial maritimecustoms has been established there for the collection of duties upon goods coming from or going to the interior, in accordance with the See also:

general treaty See also:

TARIFF (adapted in English from the French; the word comes through the Spanish tarifa, a list or schedule of prices, from the Arabic, ta'rifa, information, an inventory, 'arf, know-ledge)

tariff. See also:

Trade centres at Ts'ingtao, a See also:

TOWN

town within the bay. The See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country in the neighbourhood is mountainous and See also:

BARE

bare, but the lowlands are well cultivated. Ts'ingtao is connected by railway with Chinan Fu, the See also:

capital of the province; a continuation of the same See also:

LINE

line provides for a junction with the See also:

main Lu-Han (See also:

PEKING, or PEKIN

Peking-See also:

HANKOW (" Mouth of the Han ")

Hankow) railway. The value of the trade of the port during 1904 was £2,712,145 (£I,8o8,113 imports and £904,032 exports).

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