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 172 THE BRITISH EMPIRE: — WEIHAIWEI

The State of Johore (area 9,000 square miles, population 180,412), at the southern extremity of the Malay Peninsula in, in its foreign relations, controlled by Great Britain, in virtue of a treaty in 1SS5. The Sultan is H.H. Ibrahim, K.C.M.G. In 1910, at the request of the Sultan, a British officer was appointed adviser 1o the Johore Government. The revenue is chiefly horn import and export duties. Imports are opium, spirits, tobacco, rice, hardware, Manchester goods, &c. Exports are rubber, gan.bier, pepper, sago, tea, coffee, gutta-percha, &c. Chief town, Johor Bahru, 15 miles N. of Singapore.

British Adviser.— J). G. Campbell, C.M.G.

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Colonial Office List. Annual. London.

Blue Book for the Straits Settlements. Annual. Singapore.

Annual Reports on the Federated Malay States. London.

Manual of Statistics of the Federated Malay States.

Annual Report on the Cocos Islands. Loudon.

Federated Malay States. General information for intending settlers. Issued by the Emigrants' Information Office, Westminster.

Federated Malay States Civil Service List. Kuala Lumpur, 1911.

Perak Handbook and Civil List. Singapore.

Papers relating to the Cocos-Keeling and Christmas Islands. London.

Andretvs (C, W.), A Monograph on Christmas Island (Indian Ocean). London, 1900.

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Cerruti (Capt. G. B.), My Friends the Savages. • Cano, 190S.

Clifford (H.), In Court and Kampong: Native Life in Malaya. London, 1903.— In a Corner of Asia. London, 1899.— Studies in Brown Humanity. London, 1898.— Further India. London. 1904.

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WEIHAIWEI.

Weihaiwei, in the Chiuese province of Shantung, with the adjacent waters was by a Convention with the Chinese Government, dated July 1, 1898, leased to Great Britain. The territory leased comprises, besides the port and bay, the island of Liu Kung, all the islands in the bay, and a belt of land 10 English miles wide along the entire coast-line of the bay. The boundary has been demarcated and regulations settled for the management of frontier ati'airs. The area of about 285 square miles contains (1911 census) 147,177 inhabitants, including 3,000 on the island of Liu Kung. The native city of Weihaiwei is a walled town with about 2,000 inhabitants. Within the limits of the territory Great Britain has sole jurisdiction, except that within the walled city Chinese officials may exercise such jurisdiction as is not inconsistent with the defence of the territory. In addition, within a zone extending east from the meridian 121" 40' east'of Greenwich, and comprising an area of 1,500