3-086-071 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Chinese Question - the German Occupation of Kiao-Chau: Sunday afternoon in the Yamen, or Government House, Tsingtan, 1898. 'Facsimile of a Sketch by our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior. "On Sunday the band of one of the ships plays in the Yamen, and I was much interested in watching the Chinese enjoying music quite foreign to them. The [German] Governor walked about and chatted with his officers, and with the head Chinese men of the place." Melton Prior. The Chinese diplomatic contest has somewhat subsided, save for the denunciations by the Russian Press of Great Britain's lease of Wei-Hai-Wei; but the concessions to France are not yet precisely known. The port of Wu-Sung, near Shanghai, is to be opened as a treaty port free to all nations. There are sixteen British war-ships at Chefoo, and ten Japanese at Wei-Hai-Wei, the station now to be formally occupied by Great Britain. Japan is in treaty with China for the concession of a port to balance the recent acquisitions of Russia, Germany, and Great Britain. A disturbance between Russians and Chinese is reported from the neighbourhood of Talien-Wan'. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.