German Concessions
All in China:
- On 6 March 1898, Qingdao was leased "for 99 years" to Germany (as Kiaochow = Tsingtao) Bay (Kiautschou); it was already occupied by Germany since 14 November 1897. On 23 August 1914, Republic of China canceled the German lease, only to find that the concession had been occupied by Japan since 7 November 1914.
- One of the Concessions in Tianjin (then known as Tientsin)
- One of the concessions in Hankou (now a part of Wuhan)
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Famous quotes containing the words german and/or concessions:
“I don’t want to shoot any Englishmen. I never saw one ‘til I came up here. But I suppose most of them never saw a German ‘til they came up here.”
—Maxwell Anderson (1888–1959)
“The Germans are called brutal, the Spanish cruel, the Americans superficial, and so on; but we are perfide Albion, the island of hypocrites, the people who have built up an Empire with a Bible in one hand, a pistol in the other, and financial concessions in both pockets. Is the charge true? I think it is.”
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