The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-10-17
- Photo n Underwood a Underwood
The harbor front of Tsingtao. The bay is 80 miles across and
the harbor facilities were highly developed by the Germans.
= Photo ny Underwood A. Underwood

q wants Of China. BY "A uniuue and
rhoary history ii binds the provinces of
.. the north and the south ~together-a
yeritable Keystone. This province. Of
B.. commanding Importance by way Of its
religious and political prominence.
I. and with nearly half the population of
b United States, reaches out into the
Yellow Sea eastward. as II 10 greet
.Corea and Japan and America.
Under its southern shoulder lies a
great bay. On its inner or northern
side is situated an ancient walled city.
administrative centre for all that sec
ton, called in Chinese Kiao Chow. On
the coast nea by. southwark, is the
still larger city of TsinGtao Green
1sland). Expecting to include the
former Kiao Chow in their concession
for compensation the Germans gave
that name to their Chinese colony.
Tsingtao is the name of its metropolis
and seaport.
Seventeen years ago II was I'M
known. It's investment 10y the Japa-
nese made II leap over night into a
fame that its remarkable record was
more slowly hut surely bringing il.
There is no parallel anywhere in mis-
sion lands TO the record that this sec
ton was making in the combination of
business prosperity and the prosperity
Of self governing. self-supporting. self
propagating native churches. And in
q twinklinE. on receipt Of an ultima
tum from Japan to Germany. because
Of a war between the latter and Eng
iand-both Christian nations of
Europe-this whole prosperous mOve-
ment in Asia was thrown nto mex
tricable confusion.
p. BY a favoring c%onfguratlon of the
land Tsingtao Bay. which is an outer
bay, faces the open sea on the south
and connects with the inner kiao
Chow Bay on the north. Tslngtao Bay
results from arms of hills conversing
from east and west. coming closer
together on the north side than on the
south. Thus is formed a fine sunny
outer harbor.
The city of TsingtaO itself. both the
German and Chinese sections. lies on a
peninsula averaging about one and a
half miles long. running east and west.
and about n half mile from north to
south. At the extreme west end is a
narrow entrance like that Of San Fran
oSco's Golden Gate leading on the
north into the inest bay on the 1000
miles Of Chinais coast line, and one OF
the finest bays in the world. landlocked
by encircling hills. This bay is thirty
miles across. capable" az the Ger
mans say. 'of holding the navies of
the world"
A peculiar and marked advantage
Of it Is that when the winds blow hard
from the north the ships can take
shelter In the outer harbor under lee
Of the city on the south, and when ii
blows hard from the open sea on the
south the ships are IN calm waters in
kiao Chow Bay on the north by virtue
Of that same peninsula arm that Is
thrust east and west between them
and the elements to the ward.
But here again German science and
skill supplemented the art and power
Of nature and made advantage doubly
advantageous. Acres thai were not
long ago swamp or salt water cngi-
Tters converted into land and covered
with great Government godowns and
warehouses and customs bulldogs.
''' Also after fourteen years Of labor and
At an average expense of $4,000, 900
marks a year they constructed in kiao
Chow Bay out from the shore line of
this converted land a "kleine hafen' and
a"grosse hafen"0ittle harbor and great
'harbor). These perfect refugees against
'Nhe fury of the storm king-their
walls Of concrete n stone M steel
were carved out Of Kiao Chow Bay on
ITS shore next tn Tsingtao, the "kleine'
for chinese iunks and other small
craft; the "Srossc" for the large ships
al war and commerce.
THE 'grossc hafen" is lined with
massive granite piers, the only ones
gr.'f