NATIONAL GOVERNMENT
TAKES OVER CONTROL,
United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph.-— Copyright,.]
itteceivod this day at ll a.m., SHANGHAI, Sept. 30.
Amid scones of genuine sonow and regret, the British Commissioner for Weihawei bade farewell to seiieral hundred Chinese headmen prior ’to handing over control to the National Government under the recent rendition agreement, by, which Britain relinquished the administration after thirty-two years.
The Chinese spokesman, on behal'i of tiie two million residents of the territory, presented the Commissioner with a silk scroll requesting that ,it lie forwarded to the British Monarch as a token of thankfulness for years of prosperity enjoyed under British protection
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Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1930, Page 5
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104NATIONAL GOVERNMENT Hokitika Guardian, 30 September 1930, Page 5
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