As I have said, it is difficult. to realize whether Governor Kao has only his own countrymen in_mind or whether he has spoken in reference to everybody in Tsingtao, respective of nationality. For many a tailor, dressmaker cafe owner and garage have bundles of tuncollectible chits, and the whole thing has gone so'far that creditors here' are seriously thinking of organizing a ring for the purpose of comparing notes and listing all the bad payers, The garages, however, are in the deepest part of the mire. They are, in the main, Chinese owned, and some of their chits bear the names of non-existent people. "Wellington Ford," "George Wash-ton, Jr," "Napoleon Wong" and Joffre" are some of the fictitious names attached to scraps of paper, and T have even seen a "Kakvipazjivaite," which in Russian means "How do you do!" It may! be asked whether it would be impossible to trace the identity of the
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