The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-01-10
CHINESE BOYCOTT WORRIES GERMANY Alarming News Comes From
 The BorderIand REPORT OF EXPEDITION Two Germans Make Interesting Dis coveries in Province of New
 Guinea-The Natives Are
 Industrious.
REPORT OF EXPEDITION

Industrious.
 By MALCOLM CLARKE. Berlin, January 9.-Alarming news, which is greatly worrying the German colonial department, has been received from Kiao-chau, and it may be neces- sary to send strong military reinforce ments to the district if the protests made to the Chinese government should not prove effective.
 In an article in a number of the Kiao- chau Post, which has just reached this country, bitter complaint is made that schools, streets and railways shipping trade, cotton goods petroleum and vil- lage schoolmasters even in the whole of the coast districts are falling or threat ened to fall under the ban of the Guar dians of the National Honor"
 The Kiao-chau Post says that the anti German movement is especially deplora- ble because it is encouraged by the i Chinese Merchants giulds, powerful or ganizations which have practically the whole trade of China in their hands One immediate consequence of the boycott is, it states, that the shipment of Chinese imports from Shanghai to Tsingtau has almost ceased, and the Chinese dealers seem disposed to boycott Tsingtau alto gether.
 The Kreuz Zeitung states that it would be a grevous mistake to underestimate this boycott movement, particularly as it has a political background, and not to take in time the most energetic measures against it.
 An interesting report of an expedition into the interior of Kaiser Wilhelmsland the German portion of New Guinea, by two Germans Herr Froehling, govern ment surveyor and Herr Damkoehler, a plantation official, has just been published here.
 The explorers started from Houn bay, in the southwest of the island, traversed the country between the Finisterre and Kraetke mountain ranges, and reached the coast again at Port Constantine, in Astrolade bay
 The time occupied on the journey was IT days, and the two explorers with diff fculty prevailed on 15 natives from the coast districts to accompany them.
 The most important result of the ex- petition was the discovery that the plains between the two mountain ranges mentioned are inhabited by a very nu- merous population in a comparatively ad- yanced state of civilization. These na- tiyes are not nomadic. as was generally supposed but cultivate plantations, and Herr Froehling Is of opinion that they could easily be prevailed upon to work on plantations in civilized districts
 They had never seen Europeans be- fore, but offered no resistance to the progress of the explorers, which could not be overcome by firing a few blank cartridges. The newly discovered tribes are stated to be industrious and their land to be fertile. Their implements, agricul- tural and otherwise of stone, but iron has recently penetrated from the coasts. They quickly realized the value of this metal. and to obtain it they have during the past few years made depreda- tory excursions to the coast districts, in the course of which they manifested great cruelty and bloodthirstiness, spar ing neither woman nor child in their eagerness to secure what they sought.
 It Is these expeditions which attracted attention to the inha bitants of the interior of the Protectorate, and the opinion pre- vails here that the density and the in- dependence of the population will frus- trate the idea of starting plantations on the European system among them, and also the idea of persuading the men to serve as laborers on the European plan tations near the coast
 A doctor named Lgowski, of Elbing, has just committed suicide under singu- lar circumstances He fell in love with -sx. certain allegations which his friends made against the girl affected him so much that he made up his mind to commit sui eide.
 Bertha Klein heard what he was going to do and, sezing a bottle of prussic acid In his surgery drank it and died Her death deeply affected the doctor, who im- agined that he would be accused of her death friend of the doctor informed the police authorities, who sent for him with the object of giving him friendly ad- vice. Believing that he was going to be ar rested, Ligowshi committed suicide by shooting himself.
 Herr von Sckon, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has begun with the promised reform of the foreign office. An attempt will be made to abolish many practices borrowed from the circumlocu- ton office. Men will be appointed as 1 clerks, not because of their family con- i nections, but because of their fitness. ] Work will be simplified and in certain | departments the British foreign office Is | to be taken model.
 | The Frankfurter Zetung draws atten- | tion to the fact that among 100 odd diplo- l matic appointments abroad, only four are men who do not belong to noble houses; {, the important four fill offices in small and 1 unimportant countries. Every man in all ]! the great embassies and ministries 1 throughout the world is prince count or a baron or Is entitled to prefix his name with "Von." The Frankfurter Ze,tung wonders whether the recent reve- lations of incapacity in the German F or eign office and diplomatic service have anything to do with the state of affairs.
 Professor Anuchins article on his visit to Count Tolstoi is concluded in the St Petersburg paper, Russky Veidomosti in which due credit is given to the devotion of Countess Tolstoi, without which the Count would long ago have succumbed to the trials of an authors life in Russia The Countess has developed her wifely care of her famous husband into a posi- tive cult. For a score of years past Count Tolstoi has lived entirely in the regions of thought, leaving everything concerning this world to his able wife. The education of their IS children, even the necessary petitioning to secure the sons at manhood appointments in favorite regiments, to say nothing of the housewifely care of