The San Francisco call., 1910-01-30

runs thus 55s:E r..,,., -. :, v.,.,,i.,,.,
The Germans arc at Chao-Chau,
Now, will the Germans stay, stay7
And what will the English do, do?"
The raison d'etre of the song is that years
ago couple OF German cruisers and despatch boat
or two were loafng in a casual sort of way about
the Yellow Sea, in the neighborhood Chao-Chau
Bay.
Now, Chao-Chau is about hundred miles from
Wei-hai-wei which is a British naval station, with
al that that implies. The British it may be said,
are supposed IN the east represent the meek, as
typihed in the Fourth Beatitude, which says,
BLESSED are the meek, for they shall possess the
earth" These meek Britishers have made point
for many years of extending their possessions in
the east at the rate of a thousand square miles of
territory a week. They that day lost when
they don't advance the Union Jack at least hun
dred square miles somewhere on this planet Their
methods simple There is a disturbance some
where; the British land, claim ten square miles of
territory as indemnity and security and ten square
miles neutral territory, and there they stick
like sticking plaster. The Germans, however, are
finding things all the time, they have found
out this little game of the British and are playing
it themselves with great gusto.
One day, while the German cruisers were handy,
there microscopic rumpus at Chao-Chau- The
Germans landed force, demanded several impos-
sibe things, and these not being forthcoming in a
lightning fash the Teutons took possession of ten
square miles, claimed ten square miles neu-
tra territory, and German naval base was estab-
lshed in about three shakes of sleeps tail, and
there they this day in spite of the disgust of
the British.
The monumental cheek of the Germans in doing
this was under discussion one night on L'Hirondee,
the little French gunboat commanded by Tourneau,
the young lieutenant who had aspirations to become
the son-in-law of Vice Admiral Harbord, the
British naval commander in those regions Three
young commanders around the table In the little
cramped cabin of LHirondelle One was Aylwin,
the American Lieutenant, who had despatch boat,
and the second guest the Honorable Reginald
Frederick Geoffery Hyde, R. n, who commanded
H NJ s. torpedo boat Number Two. He was 1.-THE,
pink checked boy, and his vessel not much
bigger than himself. Hyde had everything against
him in the eyes of the Vice Admiral-fortune rank
and violin playing. He had, however, two transcen-
dent merits. He thought all future would be
decided by torpedoes, and he the best rife shot
in the China Sea- Vice Admiral Harbord loved
sport as only Engishman can, and could easily hit
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Youngsters like odsters, when they sit around the
cabin table and smoke after dinner take their griev
ances to walk, and call attention to the defects of
their commanding officers.
The Germans caught mapping; there can be
doubt of that said Hyde, disgustedy, knocking the
In the first place. and everybody else in Wei-ha-we
in the second place If we had old Harbord there
at the time he would have got up laundering big
row two hours in advance of the Germans, and sent
them all back polite and dissatisfied, their ships
Its the principle OF the British navy let any
be settled by anybody except itself if it help
it, and it's worked beautifully in the east"
The View of Tourneau
"And it's the policy of the French navy" said
Tourneau, slipping his Chateau Yquem daintily, ito
take of the Catholic missionaries of all nations
everywhere. You see, the Catholic missionaries are
everywhere, and they do not run away; they stick
as you say stick like the devil and that gives us
chance stick like the devil too Whenever the ma
tives get troublesome we send somebody to look
after the dear missionaries and so the natives are
reminded that there is such a thing as a French
navy"
1--WE Americans haven't any specific plan of but
ting In" said Aylwin, but manage way or
another to get in the game"
"Its great game, this East" said Tourneau
thoughtfully this awakening after thousand
years Of slumber. 1t is no longer fashionable in
China bind the ladies' feet It is longer fash
fonable to kill foreigners. When it is done it is
the act of the people not in the Chinese smart set
as you say, and for the empress of China not
the most ardent suffragete, my dear Hyde could ask
for more than she has When the mandarins enter
her presence they knock their heads nine times on
the ground At this Hyde hummed doefully:
"The British at Wei-hai-wei,
The Germans at Chao-Chau,
Now will the Germans stay, stay2
And what will the English do, dor"
Then the talk turned upon proposed expedition
the next day and Tourneau to be left out of it.
"You see" said Hyde. Admiral Harbord hates