Chingtao

A CORRESPONDENT in Shantung sends us the following note, under date the 23rd ult., and adds that "the subject is of vital interest for commerce, especially if this action of Germany's contemplates the opening of Chingtao as a port in the near future. It is well known that such has been their desire for some time past."

Telegram from Gen. Chang Hui-chan reported that most of red-bandit activities in Kiangsi had been suppressed, the reds fleeling in the direction of Chingtao.

Mrs. Chia was born in Chingtao city in Shantung province on the mainland.

In Tientsin and in Shantung Province in north China, Japan’s exports declined to a lesser degree because the boycotts were much less vigorous.³⁵ They fell only slightly in Tientsin, and it was in this region, in Chingtao, that they first started to recover.

Qingdao with its excellent harbor became the German administrative center (from which time dates one of China’s famous beers, known by its old Wade-Giles transliteration Chingtao).

Overwhelmed by the huge number of their rivals, the fishermen of Okikamuro inevitably headed to Taiwan, Chingtao in China, and, finally, Hawaiʻi during the first decade of the twentieth century.