26th Map.
Iris announced on good authority that the Chinese Government has decided 10 open three Treaty " Ports" in the interior of Shantung, which seems like a sensible and obvious move in the game, a good move, but too easy to be called astute policy.
The places named, Chinanfu, the capital of the province, Choutsun, the largest distributing centre, about the middle of the province, and Weihsien, a large and busy city further east are hardly dictionary ports, Chinanfu has communication with the sea by a small river which has: been made navigable for s1 boats; the mouth is at Yangkinkou, -a port some forty miles east of the mouth of the Yellow River, practicable only for junks and steamers drawing six or seven feet; but with proper care and adequate expenditure there seems no reason why Chinanfu should not become a moderately flourishing port in the usual sense. The other places however are without waterways, and are ports no more than Birmingham; but this makes no difference
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.