. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. Minister, furnished evidence of theimportance which the German Government attached to itas a naval station. The amount Germany had spent onTsingtau was stated to have been $100,000,000. To protectthe port from strong northwesterly winds, a huge mole,nearly three miles long, enveloping nearly the whole of thebay, had been built and two large piers had been was provision for loading or unloading simultaneously 166 THE WAR IN THE COLONIE
. The Literary digest history of the world war, compiled from original and contemporary sources: American, British, French, German, and others. Minister, furnished evidence of theimportance which the German Government attached to itas a naval station. The amount Germany had spent onTsingtau was stated to have been $100,000,000. To protectthe port from strong northwesterly winds, a huge mole,nearly three miles long, enveloping nearly the whole of thebay, had been built and two large piers had been was provision for loading or unloading simultaneously 166 THE WAR IN THE COLONIES twelve steamers of as much as 6,000 tons. The accommo-dations thus pro\ided were far better than those at PortArthur, or at Dalny in Manchuria. Piers and jetties hadalso been built. The new town had waterworks, hospitals,Government buildings, schools, barracks, and large com^mercial buildings. It offered a wonderful contrast to theinsignificant fishing village which existed there twenty-years before. Wherever the Germans colonized they tried to reproducethe kind of town to which they were accustomed at home. MONGOL I A ChanCTbun/Kirin. THE JAPANESE OPERATIONS AT TSINGTAUKlaochow, the small piece of Chinese territory, of which Tsingtau is thelargest town, was under a long lease to (leniiany when the war hegan. Thereader will note the nearness of the Japanese operations in 1!) to placeswhere Japan some twenty years hefore had fought in her war with China,and in her ensuing war with Russia—Weihaiwei, Port Arthur and Mukden Visitors, therefore, on arrival at Tsingtau, found themselvessurrounded by the orderly architecture, the precision, ofGermany. The place, it was clear at a glance, had notgrown up haphazardly, as so many British colonial posses-sions appear to have done, but had been laid out and builtover in accordance with a definite, preconceived plan. Thestreets ran parallel and at right angles to one were gardens and open spaces just where they shouldbe
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