There is a leading article in our weekly ette of the 21st inst., "The Custom-house at Tsingtao" in answer to your article of the 11th. It is written by the hand of an official and not by a merchant, every intelligent merchant being of ely one opinion—the Custom-house at Tsingtao is not a success but merely a disadvantage for our place, its location should be on the frontier, not here. If we wish to have a similar success to that of Hongkong, Tsin; tao must become an entirely free port. The future will prove this very soon, I hope.
(ome HEALTH OF THE TROOPS, of the epidemic fever the confinement to In consequence of the entire extinction
camp which was in force for nearly three months for the soldiers has been annulled.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.