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ALL SHIP-SHAPE 



Photograph by Maynard Owen Williams 

 ON SOME CHINESE JUNKS 



Thanks to the excellence of Chinese varnish, which resists hot and cold, fresh or salt 

 water without discoloration, the Chinese houseboats or junks are models of cleanliness. 

 From far Szechuan to the network of waterways around Shanghai, the Chinese houseboat is 

 a floating credit to the by no means spotless towns. 



for Tsingtau's fine homes, the Yellow 

 River would purr instead of roar, and 

 flood and famine would be banished for- 

 ever from the land. 



When the Japanese captured Kiao- 

 chow, they made, as one of the condi- 

 tions of its return to China, the granting 

 of a Japanese concession in the port of 

 Tsingtau. 



During the war the Japanese built a 

 new city upon low land surrounding the 

 magnificent inner harbor of Tsingtau. In 

 it the custom-house, the railway station, 

 several harbors, and numerous industrial 

 plants are now located. 



Germany deve 1 oped a show-place at 

 Tsingtau — a political and naval base in 

 the Far East. Japan is fashioning there 

 a beehive of industrial activity, having 

 constructed scores of permanent build- 

 ings in the concession which she, from 



the first, demanded as her price of re- 

 turning Shantung to China. 



JAPAN'S INTENSIVE EFFORTS IN 

 DEVELOPING SHANTUNG 



Tsinan has undergone similar trans- 

 formation. A Chinese city with a Ger- 

 man veneer has overnight become an out- 

 post of Japan. The Japanese population 

 in the overcrowded Province of Shan- 

 tung has increased 6.000 per cent in five 

 years. 



New buildings and barracks, guarded 

 by stocky young men wearing the uni- 

 form of Japan, have sprung up as if by 

 magic. One of the most powerful wire- 

 less stations in the Far Fast has been in- 

 stalled. During the 21 years since our 

 purchase of the Philippines, the United 

 States has not expended there as much 

 money as poor Japan invested in Shan- 



