Chefoo
or CHI-FU (properly the name of the European colony of the Chinese town of Yen-Tai), a treaty port on Pechili, in which it is the only port that the N. side of the peninsula of Shancolony of Shanghai, and, having the best tung, at the entrance to the Gulf of climate of all the treaty ports, it is much remains open throughout the winter.
The foreign quarter is in some sense a resorted to by convalescents. The port has developed into an important coaling station. As a market for foreign manufactured goods, particularly English those mentioned are sugar, paper, iron, Chefoo is of considerable importance.
The principal articles of import besides those mentioned are sugar, paper, iron, edible seaweed, and matches. The chief exports are silk, straw-braid, bean-cake, between China and Great Britain, and tion, which settled several disputed points between China and Great Britain, and when British and American warships extended certain commercial advantages to the latter country, besides throwing open four new treaty ports, was signed there Sept. 13, 1876. The port was the when British and American warships CHEH-CHIANG threatened to bombard the forts if their hostile attitude was not abandoned.
There were 150 missionaries in the city, whose rescue from peril was thus effected. Pop. about 55,000. CHELSEA a more serious vein and was proclaimed by literary circles to be the greatest figure in Russian literature since the days of Turgenev. He wrote over 150 short stories, a number of plays, and one complete novel. Comparatively few of his writings have been translated into English. These are stories which have appeared in magazines. Among his plays, accessible in the English, are "The Sea Gull" (1905); "The Cherry Garden" (1908); "The Swan Song" (1912), and "Uncie Vanya" (1912). prov-