As Tsingtao is a free port where no Customs dulties have to be paid for goods long as they do not leave for the interior, the strs. Konigsberg and Emma landed all the cargo they had, which was originally destined for Port Arthur, Dalny, Viadivostock—some 8,000-9,000 tons fa all. Three other steamers will do the same, and their cargoes are to be stored in godowns until the finish of the war.
The First Train reached Chinanfu from here a week ago, thus opening another important page in the history of the colony. This enterprise is bringing more and more profits to the colony, and the freights now having been slightly lowered, there is a great deal of trafic in Chinese goods from here to the hinterland.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.