The city and harbour of Chefoo are protected (?) by two forts, one directly east, the other west of the city. Between the two every foreign house in the place can be destroyed by shot and shell, and this fact, together with sundry threats made at various Limes, has caused considerable uneasiness among foreign residents and guests. As the time for the settlement of all accounts is near at hand, would it not be a good idea to put all such open ports under international guarantee of neutrality and then dismantle the forts 'THE NEED OF SHANTUNG, Recently a man in the native town of Chefoo raised the ery that H. Sietas Co.'sestablishment was burning. Some of Li Taotai's retainers at once ran to assure themselves of the falsity of the report, upon which the man was seized and given five hundred blows. A few less proclama and alit''le more vigorous treatment like this is what Shantung needs, but even the friendly officials are too weak-kneed to give
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