3-086-116 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Chinese Question: Germans landing stores at Tsingtan for Kiao-Chau, 1898. 'German Occupation of Kiaochou - landing stores [?] on the Pier at Tsingtan. Facsimile of a Sketch by our Special Artist, Mr. Melton Prior. "It is not every day that the wind and sea allow of stores and ammunition being landed at Tsingtan. Occasionally it blows very hard, and then communication between sea and shore is both difficult and dangerous; but, given a fair wind, the scene is very lively on the pier or jetty, which was in course of construction by the late Chinese General. The stores are hauled out of the sampans, as shown in the sketch, and then carried by the Chinese coolies in various ways - it takes six and sometimes eight of them to carry a load of which two or three Europeans would make light; and they have to take constant rest, sometimes succumbing under the load, whereupon coolies, ammunition, or stores are mixed together in an incongruous mass".' Melton Prior. From "Illustrated London News", 1898.