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Rh of the home country. Founded in 1886, it was first issued as a small daily newspaper appealing exclusively to German residents in Shanghai, but within a very short time radical alterations were made in its constitution. After twelve months it was published once a week, and articles upon subjects of general interest to those living in the East formed one of its chief features. The property passed into the hands of several different persons during these early years. In 1898, Mr. Fink was entrusted with the task of entirely re-organising the business, and from that date steady and continued progress has been made. A little more than a year ago a branch office was opened in Peking, and correspondents have been appointed in all the more important business centres in China. The paper has a wide circulation, for, besides being distributed throughout China, Japan, East Siberia, Siam, the Dutch Indies, &c., many copies are sent to Europe. In 1900, Mr. Fink established a news agency in connection with this paper, and this has developed so quickly that it now supplies papers in Cairo, Singapore, Penang, Batavia, Sourabaya, Bangkok, Hongkong, Tsingtau, Tientsin, Peking, Hankow, Kobe, Yokohama, and Tokyo, and has made the name Der Ostasiatische Lloyd known throughout the world.



MR. CARL FINK, the editor of the review and manager of the news agency, was a “free lance” journalist for some years before 1889, the date of his first appointment on the staff of a newspaper. He was engaged in newspaper work in the United States of America for four years, after which he occupied an important position on the



Conservative paper, Die Post, in Berlin. During his residence in Shanghai, Mr. Fink has taken a prominent part in the social life of the community, and has endeavoured in a variety of ways to promote the interests of his fellow countrymen. It was in large measure due to his initiative that the “Deutscher Konzert Verein” was founded, and that the German A.D.C. was revived in 1905 after a lapse of many years. 


 * L’Echo de Chine.

The Echo de Chine is now entering upon the twelfth year of its existence. Founded by a group of Shanghai residents for the purpose of maintaining French interests in the Far East, it was for a long time the only French organ, and it still remains the most popular and authentic. Having made its début amid the good wishes of the community, the journal has found numerous correspondents among that very important body, the Catholic missionaries, as well as official and commercial men in this part of the world, and from their regular contributions it has gained much of its interest. This circle of correspondents embraces not only the Chinese provinces, but also the following territories :—India, Ceylon, Burma, Siam, Indo-China, Hongkong, the Philippines, Manchuria, Korea, and Japan; in other words, practically the whole of the Far East. It is sufficient testimony to the high repute in which this journal is held to say that its columns are freely resorted to in France by the Press and by all those who are interested in Asiatic questions.

An independent organ, the Echo de Chine studiously avoids the discussion of French domestic politics, confining itself exclusively