Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-09-26

tuSIoHleu tTaNeltr" III the L ar Last nluSL
simply gaze in open-eyed establishment.
The question which occurs to one is:
What did-what does Germany ex-
pect!''. IL.
And there is not only the one giant,
deep-water pier; there are several;
enough, in fact, TO accommodate all
the vessels of war and all the, merchant
shipping that could, ever, by any
chance, require pier space in Tsingtau
harbor at one time. Across a deep
slipway, with enormous black letters
Snd figures painted upon its cleaning
white hull to announce its splendid ca
pacity, hes a great floating drydock,
large enough to receive the heaviest
dreadnOught that ever was launched.
Round about, on three close sheltering
sides, lie the barren brown hills. frown-
ing, rock-ribbed and gun-mounted.
Fifteen years Germany has worked
and spent her genius and her treasure
to create prize of sufficient value to
So tisfy Japan S once humbled pride.
Going ashore at Tsingtau was as
different as anything could be from
going ashore at any other port in the
Far East. There all the joyful orien-
talism, the struggling, cursing, laugh.
ing, bantering and bargaining natives
III their Unhuman clothes and with
their creaking sampans and rafting
rickshaws had been reprcssed into or
Derby array, dominated by the uniform
of His. Imperial Majesty of Germany.
The rickshaw coolies instead of trip
ping one up at the end of the gang
way and then fighting out the question
Of rights over one IS PROSTATE form,
which is the dear and accepted man
ner of the East, stood in an orderly
row at respectful distance waiting
to be asked" / called to one of them:
|" Here! Rickshaw!'' But he only
looked pathetically helpless and made
R.otions as much as to say "You come
on over here.'' / didn t understand
IL then, and as / made difficult way
across the broad pier with its network
of oily railway tracks ! said things
intended only for the ears of that
coolie. But he just smiled and nodded
in evident appreciation, undoubtedly
thinking that / was expressing opinions
about German regulations in which he
could heartily concur. was told that
no Chinese would stay in the German
territory if it were not for the fact
that they were able to command a
hundred per cent higher wages there
than anywhere else.
AS Clean and Perfect as Berlin.
Leaving behind the amazing empty
harbor with its prodigal preparations
for great events, or extraordinary
commercial development, / was soon
rolling smoothly along a perfect street
which wound its beautifully paved and
granite guttered way around the bend
of the bay shore, up long, gently slop-
ing hillside, and into !. the principal
street of the city of Tsingtau. T..
To say that an adequate description
Of this town must consist in a series
of exclamation points IS enough. It.
is bit of new Germany. transplantedI
II ON the Fatherland and transplanted
with an evident intention of impressing
all beholders. r. .a.se-=
Almost every house is a mansion
flom colonial point of view. Street
after street is lined with quaint Ger
man cottages, no one of which could
have cost, in that far-away place, less
than $4,000, and $4,000 divided into
marks is substantial sum. Each
house is surrounded by its own orderly
garden, beautifully laid out, beautiful
ly kept, and splendidly grown, too, con.
sidering the harshness of the climate
and of the soil and the short time it
has taken them to grow.
The streets are all as clean as the
streets of the cleanest city in the world,
which is Berlin, and they are as smooth
and white as the finest metalIing can
make them. The streets to which the
Chinese population is confined are as
clean as the cleanest, which must be
uncomfortable for their dirt-loving in
habitants; nor are the Chinese permit
ted to build any houses except upon
such plans as are approved by the city
government.
Monuments to German Faith.
Further on across the hills are other
wonders; enormous stone barracks ca
pable of sheltering ten thousand troops
and surrounded by finely kept parade
grounds; a huge governmesA hospital
worthy of any ambitious hd we'll
CctdullSucu COIuiiluulty anu A4OIb Spl6n-
did homes of affluent citizens. The
administration building in the center of
the town looks as if it had been built
for the full period of the ninety nine
years lease and promising. future
thereafter. while the governors resi-
dence, aloft on the rugged heights, over
locking the whole town, is colossal
gray granite monument to German
faith, nothing less.
1t is not that it is all so splendid as
to be indescribable, but that it is all so
splendid as to be inexplicabIe. That
the general policy of the German peo-
pie has long been one of strong, con-
certed and unremitting aggression is
recognized, but just how they have ex-
pected to justify the expenditure of
millions for the permanent improve
ment and the yearly maintenance of
their Kaochau leasehold is not to be
explained. ....>....
And why the great display of Ger
man force in wholly tranquil finest
How many troops have you here2"
1 asked an army officer in Tsingtau.