Mr. B. Peters, the field mana; of the Shantung Industrial and Mining has been in the neighbourhood of Ichoua for two weeks. Mr. Peters has been carefally looking over the mining property which his company has purchased south of the city. Under the immediate supervision Mr, W, Vorschults, land has been procured and prospecting commenced incor Likiachuang, 15 miles from here. The land is in the diamond area, and we must not be surprised if under these German operators, a Chinese Kimberley is developed, At Yenchoufu, 120 miles west of here, the Governor is about to open a military college, on lines similar to those he is experimenting on in his school at the capital of the province, Chinanfu, It is rumoured that the Gecman Cxtholic mix. ionones ut Yenchoufu will be the fore ers in charge, It will be remembered that there is a serv fine Cathvlic Cathedral at that place, built as a result of the death of the two German missionaries who wire killed in that section three years and a-half ago, Lith June,
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