Germany's Vanishing Colonies

tend their trading operations, it was inevitable that the Eur

ideas of culture as conceived by the nations who radiated the principles of "civilisation" in succession to the fallen E

the secrets in the arts and crafts of which she was the sole possessor; for Chinese internal affairs concerned no one but herself and her people, and her pec

ish struggled for mastery on the outer seas, and while Europe resounded with the stern music of the tramp of Napoleon's legions, China, with her centuries of

woke to what was to her a new era-the age in which man might demand for man equable treatment i

t association with trade with the "foreign devils" from the outer world was quite in conformi

on for the misconceived acts of her subjects being demanded, China was invited to subscribe t

nations in her seas and along her coasts, for many years the severest possible re

f peace, but by the Chinese in general these treaties were regard

ons in turn from the end of the seventeenth century onwards, but none of thes

and China, whereby the latter, who was ready to grant or promise any manner of concession in return for being left alone, gave Germany trading

cts with the Chinese, was chiefly interested in China, and the Taiping Rebelli

nd Japan, which resulted in a complet

ril, 1895, and the European nations realised at its conclusion that in Japan a new

, the cession to Japan of the Island of Formosa and the Liao-tung Peninsula at the foot of which lies Port Arthur (which was then occupied by the Japanese

was the opening of certain places

treaty brought the Euro

ition which was considered by British statesmen as not unreasonable-and therefore the occupation by Japan of all the coastline of Korea by no means suit

Russia, France and Germany, under which Japan was recomme

m, stated that they "yielded to the dictates of magn

s under the war, and retained only Formosa; so the "in

aces by professions of friendship and who was wholly uninterested in the ownership of Manchuria, seemed to have joined in robbing Japan of the fruits of her victorious wa

ving her a grasp on Northern Manchuria. By a secret arrangement with Germany, Russia subsequently obtained a "lease" of the Liao-tung Peninsula, giving the assurance that Port Arthur would be

h she obtained certain railway and mining rights in Kiang-si and Yun-nan, and

he therefore demanded and obtained a lease of Wei-hai-wei on the Shantung Peninsula, occupied Wei

ce and Russia in compelling the retrocession of Liao-tung; in fact China could not be brought to se

ubjects, were most conveniently murdered near Kiau-Chau, and, ostensibly to get co

o the two countries having come to an arrangement mutually satisfactory under the secret agreement concluded by t

-Chau were Hohenzollern to the la

ey landed marines at Kiau-Chau while preparations for

's brother, Prince Henry of Prussia, whom the Kaiser designated

aricaturists, for the comic side prevailed and the mission rocked the world in the

and the neighbouring district to Germany for a period of ninety-nine years; and, divining that Germany could rely on the support of Russia

ly inhabited part of China, and is celebrated as the native province of Confucius and the

ight of 5,000 feet. The ranges are intersected by fertile val

n occupation of the harbour and as much of the surrounding territory as they could bring under thei

ritory. There were no means of transport, and until railways could be const

ecreased, as the natives cordially disliked t

coal easily takes the first place amongst articles of export. Iron ore, gol

wheat, millet, Indian corn, pulse, arrow

f trade, while seri-culture (si

berry and lettuce leaves produce the lighter forms of silk, those on vine leaves a silk of a deeper yellow colour verging on red, while the oak-leaf-fed worms p

y in Japan, the oil cake made therefrom, and cotton ar

ese statistics, amounted in 1912 to about ￡1,

in the Shantung Peninsula an

out 2,100 in 1913, but the peninsula was strongly garrisoned. The Ch

e usual Prussian way) with the Chinese authorities, and a concession was granted for the continuation of the Shantung railway to a jun

c coast was inaugurated, and the liners calling at Tsingtau, in order to carry goods to th

different character. Where formerly only rough open country was to be seen, timber and orchards are filling the slopes.

ience were taught; and the students, according to the same writer, "first learned German and in this way became messengers o

odern science could construct, and all German proceedings indicated that any

many both the capital and accumulated interest of the score she had held to Ge

ke action to protect the general interests in the Far East, "keeping especially in view the indepe

g couched in almost identical terms with German

is the text of

res to remove the causes of all disturbance of peace in the Far East, and to safeguar

aim of the said agreement, the Imperial Japanese Government sincerely believes it to be its dut

s the German men-of-war and armed vessels of all kinds, a

anese authorities without condition or compensation the entire leased territo

st an answer from the Imperial German Government signifying unconditional acceptance of the above advice offered by the

to regain possession of Kiau-Chau by her own resources. The Chinese Government in perturbation expressed the op

r view, that the United States would have been better pleased if

eded, with the assistance of British warships and men, to blockade the ha

singtau on the outbreak of war an

yed British shipping to the value of over ￡1,000,000; she bombarded Madras, causing appreciable damage, and her final exploit of note was to steam boldly into the Br

was busy destroying the wireless and cable apparatus there she was discovered by the

s' investment by land and blockade by sea, surrendered to the joint British and

he East, and its severity excited bitter comments on this extinguishment of w

r according to a leading German paper: "The Japanese have assisted England in destroying the most brilliant work of German c

ime of reckoning arrives then as unanimously as what is now a cry of pai

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