trouble.

Several German sailors were injured by stones, flung at them by the
inhabitants of the villages through which they marched; but beyond that
they suffered no loss, and their second victory, the taking of the city,
was as easy as their first, when they captured the forts protecting
Kiao-Chou Bay.

Whether the reports that China has given up Kiao-Chou be true or false,
it is certain that Germany has no intention of letting the prize she
holds slip through her fingers.

She has just sent out a reinforcement of twelve hundred marines and two
hundred artillerymen, under the command of the Emperor's brother, Prince
Henry of Prussia.

Marines are soldiers who form a part of the equipment of war-vessels.

They have none of the sailors' duties, and do not handle the ships, but
are sea troops, so to speak, who fight on shipboard, or are landed to
attack a town, as in the case of Kiao-Chou.

They are a very useful body of men; but being neither soldiers nor
sailors, according to the recognized idea of the terms, they are looked
down upon by both soldiers and jack tars. In England it is a common
saying that a marine is "neither fish, flesh, fowl, nor good red
herring."

It is stated that the principal reason for the seizure of Kiao-Chou Bay
was that Germany desired to have her share of the China trade. Finding