The letter from our special oorrespondent with General Kamio's force which we publish to-day amply confirms the belief already expressed that in the end the defence offered by Tsingtao was a very feoble affair. Redoubts, wire on-tanglements and bare spaces right under the guns of every fort constitute a formidable obstacle when the men behind are determined to hold them. As it was, the Allies at the last minute are shown to have virtually walked through the barrier. The reason for this remarkable collapses will probably never be known to the world. If it suddenly occurred to Berlin that to sacrifice the large numbers of reservists, men habituated to China and Chinese business, in a vain hope, would mean a waste of expert knowledge most valuable to Germany and not easily to be replaced, it only remains to congratulate Pru m on its rare moment of lucidity. But the sudden crumpling of what was both naturally and artifcially a very strong position is a very bad object lesson to the Chinese 6f that omnipotence of German armies which the German Fiction Factory has so laboured to impress upon them; and all the grandiloquent messages that the German Emperor may send will not mend the broken bubble.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.