Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Review of Reviews, Vol. 16: April, 1900
Mr. Poultney Bigelow, in Harper's for March, writes a sketch of Kiao - Chau, Germany's first colony in China. It supplies an exquisite example of how not to run a colony. Kiao-chau is a drill sergeant's paradise: The German garrison made up pretty much the whole of the white population - that is to say, there were about uniforms as against half a dozen merchants. Six officials to colonists would have been better. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
