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TSINGTAO.

THE MAKING OF A GERMAN SETTLEMENT.

Manchester

WITH GENERAL SMUTS IN "ENGAGE THE ENEMY MORE

THE BUSH, CAMPAIGN IN A NATURAL ZOO, To the question, "How are we to know who is the victor? our forefathers gave [BY A CORRESPONDENT WITH THE TROOPE.] the answer," He who holds the Death-

stead," We hold the Death-stead Wo

in Wonderland, a land June dat, and we hold it still. Ever since Mr. B Bacher, the of surprising beauty, deep dark forests, the German Fleet want about and ran Guardian's special correspondent, who rushing snow-cooled torrents radiating full steam ahead for Wilhelmshaven, made a tour of the Far East a short time from the mountainous mass that stands scourged on till darkness covered them back, gives the following impressions of upon the marches of British and German by our destroyers, cruisers, and battle Tsingtao. East Africa; orchids of rare brilliancy ships, British warships have patrolled of colour, gigantic baobad trees, entangle ments of tropical tendrils, hothouse heat, roads tunnelled through foreste, rough and rustic bridges spanning the gorges; and over all the brooding spirit of the man and the woman, ," Kilimanjaro.

The natives worship the mountain as a fotish. It is seldom to be seen in this misty weather. Only at sunrise and at sunset are the glissaded walls of the mighty crater, the womb of the world. from which man and woman were cast forth, visible. Then for a moment gilded, by the eastern rays or crimson in the western glow, the splendour of the

the battlefield. Our dag has flown, and With Tsingtao the Japanese took over still flies, without challenge over the the Shantung line which the Germans green grey sheets of humming water built and operated from Tsingtao for 250 beneath which lie so many brave men and miles to Tainanfu, the capital. The the good ships that once so proudly 'play. building of the line could have offered ed their part in guarding all we hold no serious engineering difficulties. It is dear. If to hold the Death-stead is the rolling country all the way to Tsingtao, test of victory, as without question it but there are no steep gradients and no bridging problems like the crossing of is, who can deny our claim ?.

But this is not the only test of victory. the Yellow River near Tainanfu, with There are others, and judged by them the best bridge in China, or even like " also our victory is beyond question. The that at the Yalu, which the Japanese have first of these auxiliary tests is allied to successfully tackled. The Germans have that which wo have just given. He is planteil troes all along the line-in this the vanquished who breaks off the matter of afforestation they have set an

who dare not fly the signal Engage

unscalable heights is unveiled for the counter the enemy more closely who example which the Chinese Government

adoration of the faithful and the eavage, lurking fearful in the jungle, bows him from necessity-for here of course there are now following-but their station self down in dim, misunderstanding woris na question of cowardice or courage buildings are very plain, not to say mes-

seeks the shelter of his ports.

Every traveller on the Tientsin- Even if gre ship of the Infinite.

But this tropical terrain is as poison we had not been able to hold the Death Bukow line comments on the pretentiqua ous as it is beautiful. The lion and the stead, and if the enemy still roamed over station buildings which the Germans have leopard, to say nothing of the lizard, it in our place, we might nevertheless erected along their scotion. They were keep its fastnesses. A sacred motor lorry count ourselves the victors, The Ger- doubtless built to impress the Chinese, two mang acknowledged defeat when their and perhaps they have done so. In fair driver reported recently that

some to the south, some to the mess it should be added that they were things had attempted to charge his muth, some to the eastward, made their not built at the expense of the permanent lorry, and it is not yet certain whether nor

the more dash for safety. It is not the victors who way, which engineers admit to be good the rhinos or the driver was

"This fly to shelter. Next comes the moral test work. But why this architectural Invish- angry, startled, and amazed. place, complained a cockney chauffeur, of victory did the enemy accomplish the nesa on the Tientsin-Pukow line and this is a blooming Zoo, and they don't lock object to gain which he invited battle architectural parsimony on the Shan-

It is conceivable that the side which is tung line? Were the Germans so sure of the animals up at night."

Bok and game birds abound, and, physically beaten, which loses the battle their future in Shantung that, they felt although shikari is forbidden, birds occa beld, which has to break off the ethemselves at honse and under no obliga sionally drop into the mess pot, and bok, counter may yet win a moral victory by tion to keep up appearance? If au, the accomplishing its aim The German attempting to bite our harmless soldiery gi Sea Fleet, when in all its beauty turn of events is a curious footrete en have to be destroyed and eaten in self- defence. Horrified hippos," disturbed and strength it steamed into the North the prescience of statesmen.

Sea, was not merely chanllenging us to

'PORT AND GARDEN CITY, in the quietude of their lairs by the buzz of motor cycles, charge about open-a fight, or, like Van Tramp, showing

The Germans built three good hotels with

snort. its power to sweep the German Ocean -mouthed

a protesting

with broom. It had a great and clearly at Tsingtao. The Government gave the Through the shadows of this forest land we have driver our motor way, and great defined aim. What that aim was we do land free and a subsidy, and even so the automobiles rumble incessantly where not yet know, but we do know that the balance-sheet never showed a profit; per German Fleet was intent on some parhaps under such a system visible proft protesting monkeys chatter. and scream. These monkeys at the fight on Luni River pose beyond bringing our Fleet to action. would be a miracle. The aim was to make It may be that Admiral von Scheer Taingto a rival to Tientsin us a commer made so much noise, screaming and yell thought our battlecruisers were too ad cial port, and also the most, delectable ing among the trees, that it was difficult venturous, and judged that by a sudden city on the const. The Germans went a to hear orders. The Bander-logare very angry at the invasion of their terri-swoop of his whole force he could sur-good way towards this hith. Tringtao, round and destroy te l'amiral Jellicoe and hills running through and round it. them, and yet get on a peninsula, has the sea on three sides

tory.

ant

KULTUR IN THE WILDA.:

back to shelter

Round Moabi and the various German could rescue his daring skirmishers. It The Germans found the shore an anchor- planters posts vast plantations of coffee may be that the German Aduiral wished age for the few junks of a fishing village to prove to the neutrals that our blockade. and rubber, clean, orderly, accurately set was broken, and that he could if he liked and the hills stark stone. They decided Everything is German in its thorough the North Sea.

are coming slowly to fruition.at any moment assume the command of to dedicate the north and west to business and the south to the amenities of life ness and its finish. New Moshi lies be

Again, it may be that the Germans On the north and wost they built a good tween the jungle and the town. It has wished under cover of a general action harbour and good wharves, with railways water borne wage, but the great hotel to facilitate the escape of a small squad and all the usual adjuncts of an up-to- is lighted by primitive lamps, burning ron of swift commerce-destroyers into date port. It is not on the great scale, coconut oil, of a pattern used before the the Atlantic Further, the ingenious not comparable with Shanghai or Hong Christian era.

donggestion of a French Admiral may be kong; nor does Tsingtao quite look the The village has શું pure, cool water

tolerable, and business flourished buarti» ly. The town which has grown up round the port is drab, with the additional drabness of a Chinese settlement for the Chinese were debarred from residing in the sonthera part of Tsingtao:

ply, and rubber trees border and shade was to cover the despatch of a squadron could be made, But still it is all very its streets and side walks. The Kiliman with orders to scam full spoed to Järg Hotel, s huge, deserted building, Archangel and there destroy the ships erected at the instance of the Kaiser, has going in with munitions and the ships been turned into a hospital. Most of the coming out with grain, and also to burn trade is in the hands of Greeks or In the Russian base and ruin the open (sut dians. The village owes its existence to mer) door into Russia, Yet again, it has the railhead round which it clusters, and been suggested that the aim of the Ger the surrounding plantation. It is sepa man Fleet was, after brushing our bat le

It is this southern part, Tsingtao pro rated some seven miles from Old or cruisers aside, to enter the Skageras, per, which was the pride of colonial fer- Upper Moshi, the original settlement on pass either through the Sound or the many. With the exception of the Peak the mountain slopes, a

Little Belt into the Baltic, and sole district of Hongkong it is the menst An Imperial, officer with the envelop monstrate German strength and British; approach to a garden city on the China in force in the advance upon Moshi re weakness. The notion sounds rash to the coast. The streets are wide, the road ports that the Germans, are using empty point of madness when we remember that surfaces excellent. The houses are done beer bottles (mostly with English labels) the German Fleet could get into the of them mean and all of a cheerful colour as insulators for their field wires Dur- Baltic at any moment in the sober with pleasant tiles; nearly all have gar ing the advance the King's African Rifles security afforded to it by its great ditch, densa rare virtue in most of the foreign captured a small convoy with 140lb of the Kiel Canal. But mad as it sounds, settlements of the Far East. The public fresh butter, a welcome addition to the we must also remember that there is no buldings are handsome, and if the commissariat, and almost unheard of on limit to the eccentricities of the German architectural note is cafe Gothic, that active service. Our troops are instructed High Command, especially on the element must have made it more homelike to the solves the greatest consideration for still strange to them. They are brave Germans in exile. It is worth noting private propery.

sadors and ingenious constructors, but On one occasion our big guns attracted for sea strategy they have no instinct Far East the Germans give their conces that in every foreign settlement of the the curious attention of a number of wild Finally, the dominant idea may havesions a definite aspect and atmosphere of ostriches. After a round or two they been a combination of two or more, of scampered off.

these schemes. All we can be sure of is their own, and are perhaps the only All the German farmbouses are loop that the Germans had a clear and de foreigners who do All the other foreign holed and laid out for war-a testimony finite object, and that we prevented them settlements are European, a greatest to the grim relations that existed between accomplishing it. They did not fail by common measure lacking all individua- the native and the German colonist. accident, or because they changed their lity. The German settlements are nation-

German, often oppressively so Much of interest remains to be told of plan, or because thy found that they were al the sharp fighting that opened the road They failed because we attacked them, and in a better style than the rest; per mistaken in some tactical calculation. Tsingtao is the most German of them, for us into German East Africa, The attack on Salnita Hill took place before obtained the mitiative in the battle, and taps chiefly because of the trees and the arrival of General Smuts. The Gor drove them from the field of action. parks which are its glory The Germans man position was a masterpiece of defen- Judged by this test of the unaccomplished lined every street with trees and were turning the barren hills into forests,

sive engineering; and very awkward for object, our victory was again coon But they meant that Tsingtao should be

frontal attack. The fire of the enemy There is one more test. We won

was reserved, but when it came, see dead-points" as well as by the failure of the not only a place of business and of rezid- ly. The 2nd Field Ambulance found a Germans to come up to time." Though ence but the health resort of China. So group of 17 killed, within an open space the arithmetic of the battle of Jutland is for a couple of miles along the southern 50 by 50 yards where a platoon had come still nebulous, we now know that, great shore there, ruosa fine promenade to upon masked machine guns. The enemy as were our losses, those of the Germans pits and entrenchments were cleverly con were still greater. We have published what a commonly called the best bathing vealed especially from the eyes of the ours truthfully. They dare not published place on the cost. Hence, too, thos serdhaute by branches and creepers theirs. They have closed Wilhelmshaven three hotels, and particularly the one They had even transplanted trees, as the lest the dreadful secrets it holds should facing the beach. Japanese did in their war with Russia. bring despair to the heart of the Father 181NGTAO AFTER THE WAX.

Our men, however, were not killed and land. In all probability they lost nine- hurt for nothing, and it is a great ques- teen or twenty ships to our fourteen. tion whether, if they had been reinforced, If we take the percentage of loss to the or, even without reinforcements, had de total force this means & terriño blow to livered a second attack, the enemy would German naval power-Spectator not have evacuated the position as they

did eventually before an

Such was Tsingtao before the war. And now It is a silent city, almost a dead city. I saw only two ships in the harbour, and the wharves were very lan-, guid. The shops, the business houses, the movement. Prone for en enveloping the first page of our history. The lesson cafes, the beer-gardens that were German are all closed, most of them bricked' up. of the last movement seems to that more In the streets of Tsingtao proper you ↑ CAPTURE NARROWLY MISSP

MISSED. BARA GREAT

before Moshi the 7th time must be given for enveloping move will see an occasional European woman Regiment took a ridge strongly held by ments with country as dense as this, and or child; very seldom a man. In sum the enveloping forces must move quickly, German askaris at the point of the bayo net with a dach and elan equal to that The enveloping move directed against mer they hope for visitors-a Japanese of the best infantry. Indeed, the ad Moshi and Arusha started from company has taken over the three hotels Namanga, 30 to 40 miles north-west of and is operating them under an English vance upon Moshi ma de pen all arme ilimanjaro. The troops occupied manager test of sodays of itself, nge response to the call made upon

troops only the faintest - by the Commander-in-Chief. If only the Engaro enveloping moves had developed a little Nairobi on the slopes due west of Kili is it expected to revive very soon. more quickly we should have made a majaro. The troops occupied Engaro great capture As it was, one of the 4in Nairobi on the slopes due west of the guns of the Konigsberg fell into our mountain and then dropped on to the hande. It was of the latest type, with Moshi-Arusha road, marching south-cast solid case ammunition but unsuited to by south, covering altogether, sous to field worker

miles in 11 days. From Engage Nairobi Our South African batteries they have a mounted force was detached for Arusha, the very last word in man killing guns some 45 miles from Moshi, lying south were admired by, every one. The manner of the Mera Mountain. The enemy was in which they are ridden into action by not intercepted anywhere. the Colonial drivers, the rapidity and In connection with the main advance van Deventer was to have accuracy of their fire as they fling gusts General of shrapnel over the enemy, are beyond enveloped the enemy's immediate left, praise, We South Africana may be an and his moment was so far successful as armed mob and a " rag-time" army, but to force the evacuation of the strong posi we have our points, and one of them in tion of Salaita, but, held up by a croco experience. We are not only a nation dile infested river which his burghers hnd in arms, but a people born to the use of hoped to be able to swim, he was unable aring, since war has been our lot from to intercept the enemy's withdrawal after

his defeat (Continued on next Column.)

MARTIAL LAW.

Professor Ailson Phillips tells w good story amusing and characterist, he calls it) in the Times, apropos of aartial law in Ireland. Lady X., whose husband is at the front, found the other day in her

demesne" an uld woman tearing downe boughs from the trees and tying them up iata bundles, Lady X. told her that Sir Terence would be very angry with her when he came home and found his tree damaged. There's martial law Ireland! replied the old woman w can do what we like now. A truly Iris way of cutting the loss?!