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are concerne.l where puldie officials Tingtao's contribution to the question The Summer of 1923 was the frat Sum of the abandonment of extra-territoriality | mer of Chinese administration of Tsingtao is a picayuseriding" of the Germans after the retrocession of the port and who are without extra-territorial privi- These Germans are mainly ex district by the Japanese. It was a bad leges. season; the Lin Clang incident of May non-coms, about:140 in all; who have pu dtb, enme just at a time to frighten away turned recently to the place they know the timid who were making summer best, and as a small shop-keepers and plans, and who feared to travel rid the skilled artisans, bring in a competitivo Tsin Pu Railroad to any part of China. element, unpleasant, to the local Chinese, They were confirmed in their fear by a The Russians,, who have no business, are carefully arranged newspaper propaganda left much more afune which told of bandit horrors within the confines of the city of Tsingtao itself Added to this, though not so widely known, were the accidents to several of importaut the bridges on the Shantung railway. Russians which is slowly flooding all which again gave the people pause before toastal China. For Tsingtao, the first starting on the perilous trip. The writer trickles came soon after the Russian re and his family were warded by Chinese solution. The great influx of the spoil and foreigners alike, not to venture on laden officers of Semenoff subsided after these spendthrifts bad well debauched the summer in so dangerous a district, and polies and small shopkeepers with their it was freely prophesied in Peking that Tsingtan would probably be looted in the extravagance and dissipation, and had season when it was most filed with guests brought the affedit of the decent Russian The summer came. unusually cok and colony into gesat disrepute. The Russian The rolony is a rapidly disintegrating group rainy, ami was not & social success, usually animated streets were dead, bus supporters of the old regirae; some have emigrated to America, some have. nesses depending on transient trade were started in business in Harbin, others have in the doldrums, and the general feeling joined the vagrant population of the port was that, under the Chinese, the city waseifigs. The backwash is still the five

going to ruin.

than

THE WAVE OF RUSSIAN. There is another element in Tsingtao which seems to he becoming increasingly That is the great wave of

te Yoshiwara

"

Fai

East of Suez. But the fooding of Tsingtao, or any resort, with the Rus sins, erially with rather too vulgar Russians, will have a different effect on the place from the flooding with equally undesirable Americans or English,

The facts were rather differen:: The notorious Hussian bars which are a sean- Governor was an alter officeholder dal to the administration and a shame but the Vice Governor, although a recluse to all foreigners who come to Tsingtao Their shameless inmates faunt them- with strong Buddhistir leanings. 14:14 amenable to reau, al desired advice) selves in rickshas and on the beach; is contrast to them the Chinese redlight from the foreign community, whose district is decent, and the Japanese suls and principal representatives he fre

50 thoughtfully built quently consulted. The Department of Parks and Forests, under Mr. Lin, a Yale directly beneals the Weimar mission buildings, innocent. Besides these types. graduate, was most active in preserving here are the distinctly, vagabond and the farmun heritage, and the road build professional beggar groups, an increasing ing love under Mr. Tang, nho an Ameriproblem for the Chinese police in all can returned student, was busy in making coastal cities. in Tsingtao, ragged Rus wond what Japanese "orglect of the roadsian women invade the low Chinese inn had left to do. The police force wand, impelled by Hunger, "snatch from the inadequate and useless as trafic policreating coolies, the uniserable food their men they functional not all, and there few coppers have purchased were evidently no regulations for them to On the other hand, the hotels and Bund enforce against the crowds of disgustingly were full of the marikins from Harbin and nuutilated beggars which infested the Shanghai, those whose careful nursing streets of the best residential districts of wire babies or whose accumulations of against the bathing naked soldiers and loot had given them a new lease of life coolies along the Bund, agiinst the side

in new environment. Few of these were walk earrachinuts by rickshas and fru educated or relined: their public an stall, in fact, against the dozens of small hers left everything to be desired. offenses which detract so from the out their general misconduct, they were phly of the place and its dignity as a summer seconded by other foreigners, who put on resort. The criticistas urged against the in China the manners and morals of Finncial system of the place were to be expreted; if Tsingtao has on bones; float rial departans it has more that any other Chinese city, and, indeed, men American Branicipalities. Shipping people were annoyed by some of the exnetians of the harbour unsters) The reason is that, frankly, these Rus- department and the proposed raising of sians are very largely Jews, and it is well the fort dues to veritalle New York known in resort business circles that the figures was causing concern. The Shan Jews drive out all other nationalities. tung Railroad, the beaul offices of chick This is happening in Tsingtao. Two Hus had been moved to the old German hotels, have started, where the food The University buildings, was struggling along is farish and the users easy. with pour equitant, weak bridge a bathing beach before these hotels is re- witches schedule u arent of Fiht spectable but frack and untrammeled, dangers, and we funds.

and the Chinese standing watching no the Bund above do not come to gaze at the In spite of any and all disubiries, it] vcean. i sone other resorts in China, was evident, to the careful if not to the sth a wave of Russiaus. of persons whom average Anglo-Saxon freis to be ensual observer that Tsingtao was pro- the viding opportunity for a group of young cially undesirable, can be met by the Chinese to put into practice some of the fact that the land holding the solidarity things they learned abroad, and that they of possession, rests mainly in a closedi, The hotel life, which were doing it to the best of their ability, restricted group. and in spite of a considerable amount of varies w from year to year. gives way to indifferrive and neglect from the distract cottage life which has its set, its own el bureaucracy in Peking. Of course, the code, and which can look with some fus place had a run-down appearance: difference on the newcomer, the stray per cent of the houses and shops were dweller in the hotel. In Tsingtao, aside

from the small handful of permanent resi nty Chinese trade, whigh, during the Japanese occupation, had been directed dents, the summer population is a hotel as far as possible to Cheloo, to boycott population. There are no quantities of Tsingtao, had tot, yet swung back to the summer cottages; those that there are, umre natural outlet. Squeeze in inorre exclusively occupied by Russian Jews Nobody at Tringtao was excited about matters as insignificant as the mainten-

this fact. The general feeling seemed to aner of proper life-tours on the benches, as well as in some larger questions such hey, that if the Russians took chargy, the as the stevedore system at the docks, was other Europeans would simply disappear. parity generally acknowledged. The ex. There is an American private school in post tax on beef, which was collected in the rig, a matter of some pride to the

The prin the Barbour, but all of which went to eni "American 'community,

BUS-DOWN APPEARANCE

the pockets of the military elique at Ticipal is a young man, who has had a bard nan bad effectually killed the growing struggle to maintain his institution. Re- trade with Japan in meat, a trade secently the situation seems to have clear- monopolized la Australia and America Rut, as que faminess man put it. "No. Chinese port over" dies," and there is every prospect that this magnificent Ger man foundation will re again under Chinese Administration.

ed. for his schon has gradually filled with well-to-do Russians and the other foreign- era are all going away.

-THE FUTURE Fortunately, however, the future of Tsingtan is not inseparably boned up with Over Mom Japanese had left the city its success as a summer resort. Osly it by the beginning of the summer; the happens that large numbers of people of small business men were kept going, it great influence in China are interested in nice" summer re- was said, purely through Governinent keeping the place a subsidies and the Japanese." eoncession,"

sort for people of Anglo-Saxon race; this the new part built-by Japan after the complex, together with the unquestioned occupation, was more deserted than the ability of the summer resident to make main Jusiness street. Japanese infnence propaganda for or against a resort, in- was still strong, the Japanese schools dicutes one of the difficulties the Chines

etill in full swing, and it wasn

have always had to contend with; they pleasurable sight to see the erowls of are not good counter-propagandists. It Japanese children almost daily on the also happens that at present the érdesir beach for their exercise periods, to secable Eungicans are, mostly, Ruesinus, but the splendid spirit of the teachers, and to feel that these children were being giten all the advantages that climate and situation offered. Not so pleasant to see were the crowds of Chinese children, the girls invariably bound-footed, sitting idly and dully in the gutters, with no schools to go to and with nothing to do.

were

thats a temporary phcameron. Though the Chinese have not yet got the hang of running the place, it is clear that thes will, perhaps better than they will run some other places in China. They have a spendid hackground left by the Ger mans, and they have a pride in showing what they can do with it. It is only a carious fact that the Chinese. still seem to count so little in the public. life of the The picture represents one of the di-

eity

that the shops seen so little theira, culties of the Chinese; the lack of out that the beaches Bed a little of them, and look, of vision for the future. There was

CINESE LACK OF OUTLOOK.

ne provision made for schools, at that they have made so little attempt to tempt to start, with the new administrabe included in the social gaieties of the tion. a-proper development of the educa place, When I asked why, the answer tional and spiritual values for the mass of was that they still felt too insecure, too the population. The contrast with Japan little sure of themselves to step forward, is illuminating though most of the in the case of many of the officials too Japanese bave left, the schools go on with insecure to hring their families. Mean- full vigour, taking advantage of the situawhile, every Chinese who knows that one tion The Chinese have not yet grasped has paid a visit to Tsingtao, eagerly wants the necessity of beginning. There are other disturbing elements: the stubborn inwillingness to allow new firms to deve lop their uriness, and the sinister stories

to know how it is going, what one saw there, and how his fellow countrymen are carrying on. There is no lack of interest in Tsingtao among the Chinese.

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