The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-17

hoids into cars drawn upon double
tracks Immediately alongside them.
Not only this. Right beside these
ships is a dry dock. the only one on
the China coast. where they can he
scraped. cleaned. repainted and re-
paired. Note that last verb. repaired"
1t implies a serious problem in the
, Far East, and the Germans prepared
10 meet it 10y establishing a great
mechanical school in which Chinese
young men learned to do this very
thing.
Following the dramatic develop
ments OF the Chino-Japancse war
Tsingtao, with the hinterland of k!ao
Chow, fell to the German Government.
That Government began to create "A
capital city that is unique and a
revelation to the Far East, a triumph
of German sanitation, skill, cienc
industry, efficient management and
military ~astuteness. Not long after
the fateful day in November. 1897.
when the German cruiser squadron
under Admiral Diedrichs sailed INTO
the harbor and took possession of the
Chinese village. Tsingtao became the
NUS nNditltl u IIi'sA
tive. most beautiful city Of the Far
East. It il called the Brighton of China
and had become one of the most pop
ular summer resorts in all the Far
East. The entire city is quilt of brick
and stone. with roads as fine as the
best in the Alps; completely equipped
with electricity, telephones, sewerage,
elaborate system OF public parking and
water supply, with all that goes to
make a modern. up to date city.
Money was not spared to develop
1t In nothing is this better illustrated
than in the road making, which wa
carried out with enthusiasm and with
the i~mperiousness of h Romans,
no difficulties or expenses baking the
execution OF the plans-hills cut and
even levelled. great ravines tlled,
mountains climbed and chasms
bridged. And the result is perfect
| roadways in a land that may be said
to be devoid of roads. or whose roads
| are bottomless. Each of the principal
roads has tour divisions-for pedes-
TRANS, for wheelbarrows, for car
riages and for riding.
In seventeen years this capital OF
German China had grown from a ham
let OF fishermen to a city OF 10000
people and become a remarkably pros
porous sea outlet Of Shantung prov
ince, with forty million people. and OF
a vast Chinese hinterland beyond that
to the west. In the last Ave years il
had risen from twenty-second place in
the amount OF money that its customs
aAt Na1 L. hA linz
Government (after having subtracted
the 20 per cent, which the German
Government r%etained) to fifth place.
exceeded in it's business as indicated
by the Chinese customs reports only
by Shanghai, Tientsin, Canton and
Foochow.
All the foregoing story Of Germany's
success in developing and administer
ing her Chinese colony is no defence
Of how she got II,
American statesmen Of prophetic
ken like Thomas VI, Benton, Clay and
Seward; European publicists of the
calibrc Of De ~Tocqucville, Edward
Greasy and James Bryce; naval stra'
tegists like Admirals Mahan and VoA
Tirpitz; Generals familiar with Asian
States. like Chinese Gordon and Lords
Woolsey and Roberts: administrators
like DIR, Morrison and Lord rurzon:
far seeing diplomats like Anson Bur
l!ngame and ]. W. Foster and Count
Casslni; missionary statesmen like Drs.
Mott and Speer and Brown and Camp
bell White; veteran missionaries like
Martin, Natter and Hayes. togethar
with students Of he Far Fast jour
n~alists, Gonsuls, merchants, manufac-
turers, historians, missionaries and cd
ucators-all Joined in tho impressive
conclusion of Prof Rel"Se"' ISns e.-