The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-12-09
GERMANY IN CHINA.
EROGRESS MADEIN BUILDING ITS 1tss EASTERN CAPITAL,

'
 \ snltuatibr of Tsing-ta Divided Into Two Parts, Foreign and Chinese
 ~ euArters Railway Game Being Play, sss as,s9 sd.
 On barren, treeless, rocky coast al the eastern extremity of a shallow, use \ d6sa bay the Germans are rapidly build-
 HE their Eastern capital, which is to x M not only a naval and commercial Z base for Northern China, but also the Sral1ying point of all that is German in < the Eastern hemisphere. That their sHenterprise has been greeted with only < \ s1lsll lf- concealed laughter on the part of 2 the old China hands goes without say s64ng. To attempt any great work of x construction in China is to court ridi- GNle in the clubs of the treaty ports; Dut to make the attempt where no Trade has previously existed to justify x a(fly outlay at all is regarded in the East nOthing short of madness or delib- 1S&te wickedness
 F2 Nevertheless, two 4interesting experi-
 1Snts of this sort are at present being asade in China, by the Russians at 13alny and by the Germans at Tsing- In both cases great deep water
 rbors are being built at enormous
 pt In Situations by no means well z SMdApted to the purpose; in both cases g A cOMmerce which alone would justi-
 the expense exists only in the future M iHra Is this difference, that while Dal- S1MIRH(l3d hi1i1f tO na and tO finish z railway scheme, the Shantung rail- SNRAy IS being built as complement and
 3e6Sr of Tsing-tao. The two enter
 xiBeH were begun about the same time, # roughly speaking, they have reach About the same state of development B!3 SIfly Dalny is supposed to have cost N yl$ Russian government 10000 rubies; $NStnE-tao has accounted for more than $ 1000 marks. ,.s. N Eii& time has arrived when the future MI these enterprises can be roughly ST8fKed, or at least it may be decided
 Whether they are doomed to failure or aa6 Some measure sat least, of success. l
 32fEa on previous occasion endeavored &liOW that Dalny must become an inn
 HX|f&nt seaport almost from the mo- j 5&xt KOf it's effective opening to trade. I Tsing- tao will be equally sue XS3ul 1t would be rash to prophecy. It aa aaES68ndiCapped from the outset by the
 YSFty of it's hinterland (poverty as
 0YiipAred with the richness of Man &tttr1a) But success can only be judg-
 SG0c0rditg to the scope of the orig plan, and it is necessary to point \ Siirst what the Germans had in view 1sv Drx ofT /;np hon 5S khA Germans wanted, in the first
 R1es naval base for the protection z fiieir commerce and the upholding of 2efr prestige in Chinese waters. Their . % 0iCe then was exceedingly limited. A
 2ftIl survey of the cost will show
 ff14 the end they must have been
 |ifted to choose between Wei-hai-wei
 i'll Kiao Chau.
 S rom a strategic point of view Therefore, Germany was forced to take Y t4n Chau bay; and so it must be re- 73i ibered by those who are inclined to
 Germany's new colony that
 Ifed the necessity of having a naval
 ih China at all Kiao Chau bay
 Absolutely the only spot which she
 HI Select for the purpose; and if she
 E#8to spend $50,0O0,000 on making a
 $6Ur and erecting Qualifications she 1
 0i1ly doing what she must have
 R0Wn to be necessary before she seized 1 fae bay. If, besides fulfilling her aim
 flIfD direction, she also succeeds in
 ki1lg her new commercial basis for l <10rth China, she will have added |
 Se1t1re of success which was not an
 eiitial part of the original undertak | Q,,.. st,4 @l{&u bay as lever for the political | 26f{trOl of Shantung, and perhaps part | 7T Chi-li as well, then it may fairly be aItIed that the money expended on her |Sfb0r will be returned to her with good IIIferest.
 10 the west of Tsing-tao, facing in l&rd to the bay, lies the real wonder Y the place in the shape of brand iiSW commercial quarter, which is ac- Ei klly built up and could now if neces- ixry. accommodate half the retail busi- q ys of Shanghai. This is Ta-pu-tao @1I9reEtte Germans graciously allow the 3Iftnese to reside and do business. Here, kFVpuld seem, is triumphant answer !b sltli0se who declare that the Chinese 1iSrchants will never go to Dalny or 3Sflfg tao; for here, as matter of fact, <ey are in the new German town, buy H lip land as fast as they can get it, lJid Building night and day in feverish X7Ste. For reason or other the Chi ee believ in Tsing-tao and are back TT their belief in practical way.
 bout two miles to the north, in a fsiElll plain which lies between the hills |Ej1{I the higher mountain range, there r h model Chinese village, with wide 1reets, neatly built houses and big |SYasrket place. This is intended to ac- Sj14InOdate all the coolies who are at g6r& on the railway and the harbor w AaJso the smaller Chinese shopkeep- xS The scheme has caused some iYf4sement to visitors and residents 1ike as being typically German; but e5deeme on the whole to be fairly suc- SH8ful It removes the coolie element d pleasant distance, it enforces on IiAfn sanitary mode of life and the overnment manages to exact rent of 10 month for each house. The Chi sse love to herd together in over- rOwded novels, but when forced to live : ecentIy they appear to accept the in- 4table with equanimity and one can- nt he1n wishing that the German SyS-