The German propaganda has failed almost as miserably in China
as in America, in so far that the Chinese Government has broken off relations with Germany and stopped payment of her share of the Boxer indemnity. Yet, according to the 'Limes correspondent at Peking, the Germans have done their utmost to impress the educated Chinese with their military superiority, and have not scrupled to Use China as a base for active operations. Pappenheim, the German Military Attache at Peking, took a caravan laden with explosives into Mongolia, with intent to destroy some tunnels on the Siberian Railway. Fortunately, the Mongols disposed of him. Dinkelmann, formerly a military adviser to the Chinese Govern- ment, went spying in Kashgar and along the Pamirs, but strayed into our territory at Hunza-Nagar and was captured with nine thousand sovereigns in his luggage. There seems no limit to the mischievous ingenuity of the Germans, though its results are relatively trivial.
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