Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1902 — China’s Fleet for Sale. [ARTICLE]

China’s Fleet for Sale.

Everything goes by contraries, of course, out here. The European of proverbial experience buys a grand piano which, being bought, necessitates corresponding alterations and improvements in the drawing room, and so to the house in general, the result being a removal from the villa t oa mansion. China,, knows better. She buys an expensive fleet, and then, foreseeing the trouble and expense it is going to be to her In u thousand different ways, gets into a quarrel with Japan so that she may rid herself of a considerable portion. That done, the second step is taken. So that all temptation may be removed she gives away her naval ports. Now she puts up to auotlon the few remaining vessels. "Going, going"—and not yet "gone," the troubles and anxieties of a fleet. “Hans in Luck” was nothing to it. Wonderful China! —Shanghai Mercury.