'The trial of the two Germans, who were accused of killing one and wounding half a dozen Chinese in a drunken braw! some weeks age, resulted in their conviction, and they werd' sentenced to imprison ment in Tsingtad; one for thirteen months and one for seven. This on the face of it seems' a very light punishment, but it should he said in justice to those who conducted the trial, that the evidence of the Chinese was 4o small in amount and so cdintradi tory in character that the judges found it difficult to come to any satisfactory conclusion as to who actually did the id be urged fe mints in Hangchow. Large and sub-Work is going on space on the new form: than a fa ae "rt like: this yor tio fast
stantial foreign structures are being put up. One of these mints is a branch of An_ Interesting Study. the copper ten-cash mint, and the other Chincee life is an interesting study in is for the minting of silver coins. Then in the eastern part of the city a number these days of change., By only: looking back three or four' years one realises that of semi-foreign one-storey buildings have transformation is taking place that is réoontly been erected. for the storing of really marvellous, when we. reménber firearms, report says: how unchangeable and-unmovable China
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