From recently culled accounts foreigners trading in the city of Tsingtao are looking extremely gloomy. There feoms to be an ever-increasing accumulation of -hindranees to. mate business—at least so far as th foreigner is concerned, The Chinest yes, "he will continue to till. his fidds and sell his produce; as usual he man of the gail will probably not io so badly, Other Chinese, able to lo their own way in their own country—even under an alien gov cnment—will do so with at least tome sticcess, but foreigners of every hutionality are not optimistic about the future, A well known German resident who has been in 'Tsingtao {or twenty-five years has every belief the Open Door, in fact he avers Wat it is getting' wider and wider pen and through its portals in no \neertain fashion the foreign trader will make his exit. Some may go sooner, some later, but out they will il go he says,' and implies—not without some propulsion from behind, Travellers on holiday report, however, that holiday arrangements were excellent all the time; cholera inovlation certificates were necessary and passports required, but there was no undue worry about luggage. Those who left their baggage in the hands Japanese agents, had this delivered perfect order and with no trouble all
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