Tsingtao, Jan. 3.
An American tourist party, consisting of about 450 people, is due to arrive in Tsingtao at noon on Wednesday next, and Mr.. Worth-of the American Express Company, Tientsin, has here: to make the necessary arrangements. The str. Laconia, 21,000 tons, which is bringing them, is the largest passenger steamer which. has ever entered the harbour. The party will dine and dance at the rand Hotel, leaving the town at about 4 p.m. on Thursday for Shanghai, where they will be joined by 50 other tourists who went as far as Peking, vid Korea and Manchuria. The visit of such a large number will afford a fine opportunity for introducing Teingtao and its beauties to the travelling public, and the railway, wharf and other departments of the new Administration, as well as the Japan Tourist Bureau, under the direction of Mr. Hohow, are ready to afford the visitors every possible assistance.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.