The times., 1899-06-27
GERMANY IN THE EAST.
The kniscr's scheme 10 Get Hold
on Yungtse-kinuE Traffic.

A somewhat plain statement regarding
Germany's Interior motives in China has
been received from Consul Monaghan of
Chemnitz and made public by the State
Department. The Consul says that no ma
ton is better informed as to what is going
on in China than is Germany. and that
no nation has taken greater care to pro-
vide the necessary ways and means for
finding out the facts.
THE Kaiser's brother" he continues,
with quite an array of ships and men.
has been kept in Oriental waters with
view to being on hand in case complex
contingencies should arise out Of which
Germany might make a successful move.
Reports from the East inform the public
here that Prince Henry has just gone on
board the Gefion at Shanghai for a trip
up the Yangtse- Kiang to Hankau, dis
tance of 5S4 sea miles. The Yangtse-
Kiang is Chinas most important river.
Navigable for ocean steamships at high
tide or under favorable conditions as far
up as Hankau, and for river boats hun
dreds Of miles farther. it offers, as a
glance at the map of China will show
traffic with an entire nation. Commerce
on this mighty river has hitherto been in
the hands Of the English and Chinese.
Germans hope to have hand in all
that goes UP and down its water in the
future. Two fine river boats. built for a
German company, began to ply this sum-
mer between Shanghai and Hankau. Re
cent reports tell of second company in
Eastern Asia, eager TO participate in the
enormous freight and passenger traffic Of
the Yangtse- Kaing, ordering a fleet of
steamboats,. After the treaty of Simonos-
ek Germany obtained possession on the
Yangtse- -Kiang at Hankau, the Importance
of which to foreign trade, but more par
ticularly to German trade. it would be
hard to measure Their value is constant
ly increasing Hankau is the entrepot so
TO speak, for central. northwest, and west
China. Its traffic in goods. so far as
figures have been kept by foreigners, has
gone up TO $4,000, 600.
Germans see in the concessions at Han
kau, on the Yangtse- Kiang. the basis on
which to build up enormous trade relations
not only along the river. but in the in
terror, and more particularly in the rich
provinces of Central and Western China.
Mercantile centres here see in Prince Hem
rvs trip up the Yangtse- -Kiang to Hankau
new proof of the Emperors determination
to do all he can to Increase German infiu-
ence in the East. Every effort is being
made to make the best OF every concession
no matter how small ii is. Once the thin
edge OF the wedge is in this Empire finds
ways and means, by patient labor to en-
| large the opening. II the Germans can
buy wool in Australia and South America,
cotton in the Carolinas and Texas, iron in
| Sweden, and coal in England, and ship
their manufactured goods TO every corner
on earth. there is no good reason why we
should not outsell them.
"A director of the North German Lloyd
was sent by the German Government some
time ago to study Kiao- Chou and its con-
| tiguous territory, with a view to its eX-
| ploitation with German capital and by
! German colonists. The report which has
been handed to the Kaiser, is said 10 be
one of the most exhaustive of its kind
ever written. II points out coal as one of
the valuable possessions of the new terri
tory"