We too have our reasons for satisfaction at the obliteration of the fruits of Prince Henry's adventure. The circumstances in which it was made were sorry to look upon, When he sailed from Kiel, "to declare," as he told his brother and Emperor, "the "gospel of your Majesty's hallowed person," he started on his lofty mission with a couple of old ships, the Gefion and the Deutschland, which constantly broke down in the most deplorable manner on the voyage...
It is from the year of Kisochou that the growth of that Navy really dates.
All the Allies, and indeed all the neutral States which trade with Ohina, may look forward with complaconcy to a share in the extensive commerce which has grown up in the German port.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.