Ist April. the same rights and iloges in the GERMANY is very keen on having Yangtze Valley as any other Power, Her steamers came on to the river some forty years after the English and American flags were first seen there but she takes the scriptural view that the last shall be first, and if no convenient room has been left at the open ports for her hulks and her wharves, dhe has men-of-war and Admirals, and somebody must move to make way for her. That is the idea of the open door entertained by her steamer companies, and they are gallantly backed up by their Consuls, while the British steamer companies often find it a hard task to get our Consuls to assist them. Below Nanking there is a well-known cut-off, called the Straw Shoe Cut-off, which saves some thirty to thirty-five miles of distance, Owing to the damage caused by the wash, the steamer companies have been notified that their steamers must not use this cutoff; this order has been impressed on the British and Chinese steamer companies by the British Consuls and the Commissioners of Customs, and is rigorously obeyed by them; but the German steamers pay no attention whatever to the order, and regularly use the cut-off. It is a the China Merchants' steamers, for little galling to the captain of one of instance, to be told by the Commis-
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