While Count Biilow may disclaim seeking any special concessions for Germany "only our share of the sausage," it 18 unfortunate that the Chinese, high and low, have somehow received the impression that in five large districts all mining rights are to be given exclusively to Germans. Time will probably show this to be the real state of the ease, and Count Billow's magnanimous declaration simply means, that after we have selected our ground, others are welcome to do the same if they can. This view of the case might be illustrated by a convivial member of a small community who came up to his friend's room one rainy night, and by serious mysterious signs convinced hint that he had concealed about his person an invigorator, which said friend might take of if he would accompany him. After leading him quite a distance down a muddy alley, he finally said, Jim, I'm mighty sorry; U've drunk it all, but' you may smell the cork if you want to." When Germany gets through with Shantung, England, America, and the rest may smell the cork if they want to.
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