 | Paul Samuel Reinsch - 1900 - 434 pages
...made of a partition of China. Such a partition will not be brought about by us at any rate. All that we have done is to provide that, come what may, we...cannot decide when the train is to start, but he can be sure not to miss it when it does start. The devil take the hindmost." In addition to the lease of... | |
 | Kan'ichi Asakawa, Kanʼichi Asakawa - 1904 - 436 pages
...the lease of Kiao-chau had been acquired, by Herr von Billow in the Reichstag, on April 27, 1898 : " Mention has been made of the partition of China. Such a partition will not be existing between China and Germany, and that the German Government came to the assistance of China... | |
 | Percy Horace Braund Kent - 1907 - 334 pages
...will not remain unavenged." On a later occasion the same statesman summarised the policy of Germany: " Mention has been made of the partition of China. Such a partition will not be brought about by us at anyrate. All we have done is to provide that, come what may, we ourselves shall not go empty-handed.... | |
 | George Lanning - 1912 - 456 pages
...sons, Chancellor von Buelow, who, in a speech in the Reichstag, said :— " Mention has been made of a partition of China. Such a partition will not be brought about by us at any rate. All that we have done is to provide that, come what may, we ourselves shall not go empty-handed. The traveller... | |
 | 1914 - 324 pages
...Count von Billow might after all be wiser. The German Chancdlor had declared before the Reichstag: " Mention has been made of the partition of China. Such a partition will not be brought about by us ¿t any rate. All we have done is to provide that, come what may, we ourselves shall not go emptyhi«ndeu.... | |
 | Paul Henry Clements - 1915 - 256 pages
...sufficiently expressed by Count von Bulow in the iReichstag as far back as April 27, 1898. Said the Count : " Mention has been made of the partition of China. Such...we have done is to provide that, come what may, we shall not go empty-handed"; then adding, with the characteristic German fondness for proverbs : " The... | |
 | James Francis Abbott - 1916 - 296 pages
...expressed by Herr von Bulow in the Reichstag April 27, 1898, when he said: " Mention has been made of a partition of China. Such a partition will not be brought...what may, we ourselves shall not go emptyhanded. The traveler cannot decide when the train is to start, but he can make sure not to miss it when it does... | |
 | James Francis Abbott - 1916 - 314 pages
...expressed by Herr von Billow in the Reichstag April 27, 1898, when he said: "Mention has been made of a partition of China. Such a partition will not be brought...what may, we ourselves shall not go emptyhanded. The traveler cannot decide when the train is to start, but he can make sure not to miss it when it does... | |
 | John Wright Buckham, Charles Sumner Nash - 1917 - 374 pages
...von Buelow in a speech before the Reichstag had made plain the intentions of Germany : " Mention had been made of the partition of China; such a partition...ourselves shall not go empty-handed. The traveller cannot tell when the train is to start, but he can make sure not to miss it when it does start. The devil... | |
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Mention has been made of the partition of China. Such a partition will not be brought about by us at any rate. All we have done is to provide that, come what may, we ourselves shall not go empty-handed. The traveler cannot decide when the train is to... 
