Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-04-24
GERMAN CLAlna IN CHINA
Valuable Mining Rights About
to Be Conceded.
GIGANTIC MONOPOLY INVOLVED.

DR.. Morrison Says a Large Part OF
the Shangtung Province Nay Be
Closed to the Industrial Enterprise
of the United States ana Great
Britain.
DR.. Morrison, the Picking correspond
ent of the London Times, says it is an
nounced that the agreement between
China and Germany, by which Ger
many acquires a mining monopoly
throughout five zones of the province
of Shangtung, is on the eve of being
concluded, no other government having
protested against this violation of the
policy Of the "open door,"
The question is pertinently asked,
SAYS DR.. Morrison: Cannot Great Brit
ain and the United States realize the
Inconsistency of their attitude in pro-
testing against the exclusive privileges
demanded by Russia in Manchur1a,
while not demurring to the more IN
sidious but equally injurious exclusive
policy of Germany in shangtung?
Unless the conclusion of the agree
ment is prevented, the correspondent
goes on to say, a large part of Shang-
tung will practically be closed to the
Industrial enterprise of Great Britain
tand America. The agreement also
confers on Germany great political adj
Nantages.
DR.. Morrison says the reason for the
s~nenacing attitude Of the German con
sul at Sinanfoo and the German min
lister at Picking, as we'll as the presence
Of the German troops at Tientsin an6
rAa - 80 ruSG NofT1CQ1 fn TA
duce their number is that the conclu
sion of the Shangtung agreement ma!
fe enforced while the attention Of tn
other governments is diverted to Man
churia- DR.. Morrison suggests tpa'
before it is too late, the powerful an
unanswerable note of the United State
secretary of state to Russia should ais
he sent to Germany as a protest agalns
the extortion Of secret privileges l
Shangtung.
Germany, it is declared, monopol1ze
railway construction in Shangtung, a
the railway material being eXcluslvel
purchased in Germany. The Rlg
Hon. A. J. Balfour, on behalf OF Gre;
Britain. has already g~ratuitously give
b undertaking that Great Brltal
will not disturb this monopoly by co
structing a railway inland from we
hafwef. Germany has all the miner
rights for ten miles on each side OF Il
railway. and all the mining and 9th
machinery is exclusively purchased
Germany And now, says DIR. Nor
son. Germany is acquiring rights VIII
give her virtually the entire miner
wealth of a province larger than Ell
land and Wales combined. Great BIZ
ain by her silence lends her approval
this monopoly.
Because, the correspondent adds,
dispatch from Baron @ ketteler It
German minister to China who "
murdered in Picking on June 20, l9'
of May Is, 1900, demanding these
elusive rights was never answer
Germany intiInates that her claim is
disputable, as she cannot Withdraw
demand made by her murdered mil
ter. But, says DIR. Morrison, Bal
Won Ketteler is already avenged by
huge war Indemnity, the heavy hano
the German forces in their sphere
occupation and their unreslsted RAID
Of peaceful districts.
DR.. Morrison hopes that Great Is
ain will at least decide that her unt
taking not to construct another rally
is rendered null by the German vi
ton of the spirit Of the B~ritish-Ger1
agreement.