(Translated from Ver Ostasiatischer Loyd.)
Assign that, notwithstanding our military occupation of the bay of Kiaochou, the friendly relations between Germany. and China have not been broken off, is visible in the non-interruption of telegraphic communication between the new German stations of Kiaochou and Tsingtao and the outside world. It is evident that the nese government as well as our own, is earnestly striving for a peaceful solution of the present difficulty. In Tsingtao the little Chinese employee of the administration retains his post, clad in his elegant tired gown; but his pedanti reticent saviour compares very unfavourably with that of the sailors and non-commissioned officers—telegeaphie experts—who have been adjoined to him. Unfortunately, at the Kisochou station, the next on the line from this, a like arrangement of the telegraph-office was not practicable: there the "Chinese telegraph clerk concluded to do politics on his own account and abandoned his post in an access of Gor-monophobia, to which he gave expression in a telegram sent in English to Tsingtao in language not fit to be repeated. Accord ing to another story, he took French leave upon the approach of the Germans, fearing correspondence to its subscribers, even had we the necessary permission to use the wire. Consequently we must beg our readers to have patience for a time which will happily not be long. We have to thank the Telegraph Administration for. sending a fresh clerk and so restoring com-
Otherwise peace and quiet reign absolutely. The detachment of 500 marines and sailors sent to Chime has been withdrawn, now that all the Chinese troops have left the neighbourhood. "It was a bitter, cold day, the thermometer at 19 F., and a northwest gale blowing, as the men marched back in high spirits singing their soldier songs (the wind was at their backs) with a high colour from the wind and sun, And why should they not look healthy? Is it not the home climate, in which we are living? Rice and bananas grow here no more than they do at home; and our peasants would soon learn to accommodate themselves to the mosquitoes. and the somewhat higher summer temperature. What a pity that this fine country is already fally occupied by the children of the yellow race and that they cannot be driven out or exterminated with the aid of powder and alcohol like the aborigines of Africa, Australis, and Polynesia. But of the Chinese, with life and reproductive powers equal to our own and so few wants, no idea of displacement is entertainable. Under these circumstances, never will Chit offer a field for colonisation, to the surplus population of Europe. And yet here, too, we have what cannot withstand Western civilisation with its strange disintegrating influences; its Christianity and love of one's neighbour on the one hand; on the other, the reckless selfishness and individualism of our European industrialism-both backed by modern war method: and this is the ancient empire of Chin It is a hopeless invalid, whose decease is only a question of time. By the help of that Western civilisation which has destroyed it must the Chinese empire be again restored. In this work of the coming century we shall now take our part starting from Kiaochou. From this point of vantage we shall he in a position to support a modern Chinese government with word and deed, as well as to watch over the safety of our missionaries in the interior of China and to push the extension of our trade.
The English cruiser Undaunted which wut in an appearance here on the 9th of december, left us again on the Lith. Bo-fore the small English man-of-war, the Algerine, our old friend from Shanghi had arrived and is still here. There la rumour that English men-of-war are di playing great activity in the Gulf of Pechil on will be better informed as to their movements in Shanghai than we here. Is it possible that, owing to auc action here, England has been excited to a more active policy in China? Are complica-. tions between England and Russia threatening in regard to Corea? Such ate the indications in.the news brought by the German steamer Swatow yesterday. The arrival of a steamer event in this remote, newspaper-void, Bay of Kiaoc So far only the German shou. steamers chartered by the Admiral of the: squadron come to this port. English steamers are said to have. refused to call in here because, according to treaty,.they render themselves liable to confiscation by calling at a non-open port. But the German steamers by no means limit. themselves to the. conveyance of letters and dispatches.. The Loongmoon, which has jo several voyages between this and
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.