Norwich bulletin., 1919-10-10

1 that year Gernlany demdnded ana Se- l cured for ninety-nine years an iron l clad lease of kiaochou bay with ad- 1 joining territory of two hundred square miles. To be more exact. this
 territory consisted of thirty-three l townships and has populat alton oi i 192,0o0. Around this leased territory i is a neutral zone of twenty-five 1 thousand square miles In area.
 1 It should be understood at this point i that the territory in question today | which is the cause of all the trouble | is not the whole of the Snanrung | province. which is said previously about ffty-six thousand square miles 1 but only this small territory held by l the Germans with the railroad lines 1 they were allowed to build and such like In this. some of the opponents of the League of Nations are trying to muddle and befog the minds of the people by making them believe that the whole of the Shantung prov ince of China is involved.
 The ca pitaI of the German colony of kiaochou is Tsingtao. On taking possession the Germans began a
 mighty work of improvement along
 spent one hundred million dollars in
 fortihcations and improvements.
 pier four miles long was built in the
 harbor. Improvements of all kinds
 were made in the city or Tsing tao o
 and in Kiochou which is just across
 the bay from the capital They built
 roads and paved streets; they estab-
 Iished a Forest Garden which covers
 two hundred and seventy acres and a reforestation tract of three thousand acres more.
 Then the Germans began a most stupendous effort to militarize China, thing that makes every thoughtful man almost tremble when he thinks of it. We must not forget that every fourth man on this earth is a China man: that they hang together like no other people on the globe: that they are the geniuses of the world: that a thousand years ago. they were the grea test inventors in the world and may be again for they have it in them; that they have never been war riors but always lovers of peace. Could the Chinese have been turned from peace to war and under the yoke of German militarism. they could have rocked the very earth like a cradle. Napoleon Bonaparte. and he, one of the greatest military geniuses that ever lived. after long study of China, said. Wonder sleeps a mighty giant that when wakened will make the world tremble."
 No thinking man who visited China before the outbreak of the war doubts for a moment that Germany was at tempting to militarize that country. Every time Chinese soldier was seen. you saw a German gun Of course it would take a generation or two to accomplish the result aimed at, the turning of this great nation from peace to war, but Germany started in to, do that very thing. thinking no doubt that with the Chinese nation she could enslave and rule the world. thus accom- plishing her dream of World Empire. It should not be for gotten that the plans of Germany were laid for generations unborn and that this late war was but the beginning Of a world conquest to last for all time.
 Japan, naturally, angry that Ger many had secured foothold in Chi ma began at once a silent and far reaching plan to outwit the kaiser. The great Kitchener visited Japan and was entertained like a king. The good fellowship between England and Japan was cenented by an alliance and eel ebrated 5 ythe great British-Japanese] Exposition in London held at Shep- herds Bush. which. according to those who attended it. was wonderful to say the least.
 Then came those August days of five years ago. pregnant with the teF- TOT about to burst forth upon the earth. German armies started across Belgium and England entered the war. Japan had not been sleeping and though the inducements offered to Japan to remain neutral were great she refused them and sent her ulti- ma tunl for the withdrawal of all Ger man warships from Chinese and Jap