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CHINA OVERLAND TRADE REPORT. or wise policy to endeavour to stir up the statesmen of one or other country. It the Tsings are iu any danger, and even if against a hostile state the elements of is interesting then to notice, and affords there be any serious talk of revolution, we discontent which lie, dormant it may be, some invariably under the surface. These ele arrangement, that both England and Russia when the EMPRESS Dowager
prospect of stability in the new fancy it will all subside quickly enough inents of disorder after the first news of have seemingly come to recognise as a fact impose her imperious whims upon a great. Russia's discomforture Jrived, showed that those things wherein their interests are and rising people. The EMPEROR himself, themselves merely scotched, not destroyd, coincident are vastly more numerous and having shown some desire and care for the and it was evident that they could not be important than those wherein they diverge, welfare of his people, will probably aftenet played with with impunity. Russia and This, as in the case of the Entents between England had long been carrying on their England and France, is the une essential, predecessors, Han or Teing, have over 48 much general loyalty as any of his own polifical games in these districts; thing that his fair to render such an sometimes que, sometimes the other in the apparently unprecedented occurrence as a
done. Another thing against the theory ascendant. It had bu
of dynastic resolution is that so far we seesaw with 'cordial union in Central Asiatic politics have heard no whisper of a possible Han little advantage to either, and at the, between England and Russia, net only successor. moment England was on top, but said she
Anti-dynastic revolutionaries practicable, but highly probable. was willing to treat in a friendly spirit.
are usually provided with some figurehend But there has always been a great difficulty
nominated to succeed the one to be in these dealings between England and
dispossessel, and it would be news to us Russia Russia has always held to the vien
to learn that the inland Chinese are ready that treaties were but temporary convenien-
in this respect. It would be far from Not long ago we ventured to express the, unnatural for the conduct of the Manchu ces, and that as soon as she saw it would be "opinion that the insurrdotionary symptoms administration in ita recent manifestations to her momentary advantage to alevoure, · in mid-China did not deserve the attention and was able to do so, no inoral obligation • that a persistent anti-dynastic movement
to breed discontent and hostility, in any other race; lay on her to longer conform; and a treaty i would deserve and get. This opinion is inherently reballions, as some races are, but the Chinese are not nade under such conditions, as set by evidently not shared every where, and the Their temperament, cultured by many England, was likely 11 prove little more contrary opinion seems to be gaining ground, ¦ generations of precept and training, is to than waste paper.
! Here, however, another in Japan, that these troubles indicate at hend to the breeze, to take the line of least element almost insensibly Ins come to the east the begining of a revolutionary move-i resistance, and to submit to the ills they forefront.
ment, intended ultimately to displace the know rather than to the others at which Some four years ago Germany commoured ¦ Mauchn dynasty. The absence of anti- 10 look seriously towards the Near East, foreign manifestations of any overt nature ¦ it seems to be a part of the policy of the they can only guess. The Japan Times thinks and at first her movements were looked on by the insurgents is hold by some to bei · Peking Government to raise the cry almost with friendly sympathy by England out the contention that these risings, which interests and rights recovery and. France One of For scheme was to we have hitherto regarded as repetitions of ¦ divert the popular attention from the anti. and thereby promote a railway from European Turkey the sporadic rebellion incidental and com. to the Euphrates valley. Now England | mon to the Chinese administrative system, y of quite other explanations, which we have Manchu móvenient, but the policy is capable had had such a scheme herself on hand a
are really of a political nature, and purely ¦ endeavoured to illustrate from time to time. good many years ago, but the upening of pro patria. The evidence that so many of We mention it chiefly beuse of the The Suez Canal, and the general jealousy of | the rebels are well-armed proves nothing, interest attaching to this Japanese comment, other European nations had "lel to its in our opinion, since the same thing has which is followed by a solemn warning to abandonment or delay. When therefore | heen noticed in connection with ordinary Germany proposed
the present. Poking Government that if they the modern pirates. Moderu arms of precision do scheme, and applied for assistance 49 have undoubtedly been finding their way
not amend their ways, the western France and England,
Powers “will soon find reasons for support- birth WEPA dis-into Chiu in great quantities and with [ing the enuse of the revolutionaries", to posed to join in. Germany, however, fatal case, doubtless to the enrichment of their own advantage; and by an appeal to disclosed her hand too soon; the assist- some people who may one day have occasion the revolutionaries to
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to regret their participation in this trade, agitation, which ouly furnishes the ever- availed of, but Germany was to have the which, however, was bound to take place, watchful foreigo Powers with chances fort eutire control. She had for some time been | and could not well be stopped. If it be aggression ". Our Japanese contemporary quietly engaged linking up her communica-true, as alleged in some of the Japanese earnestly hopes that official China will ons with Central Europe and European papers, that placards have appeared in the discard its "foolish anti-foreign policy ". Turkey, and the present project was clearly | centres of disaffection, immediately prior to These quotations seem intended to extend them to the Persian the more conspicuous risings, and that these than our point of view, and, as emanating Gulf. This would not in itself have raised ; placards explicitly denounce the existing | from a semi-official organ, they afford rooni the hostility of the others, hu when i dynasty, then there would appear to be Germany was asked to guarantee equal ¦ more colour, for the suggestion that the
| for interesting meditation. treatment for all on the new line, she flatly sons of Han' hare discovered so belatedly i refused, with the result that the others the necessity from their point of view of decided to take no share in the construction. | getting rid of their Manelin conquerors and ; Meanwhile the fears of Russia were ; rulers. But in that ense we would expert aroused lest the new line should prove to be i to find the rebels cutting off the intenderi โ
but the introduc- and altering their dress, which at present, tion of the thi 'll of the wedge though commonly called - Chines","
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* foreign' < with Central Asia. England sheknow, and ↑ badge of defest, by Chinese who give any France she knew, l Germany in this
thought to things in which custom has lent affair she knew not; practically a rough familiarity. There has been, so far as sort of incipient modus vivendi had for an aware, no suggestion that any of the some time existed between England and ¦ rabols have abandoned shaving of begnu Russia in Persia, but a good deal of un-hair-cutting, which would appear obvious necessary starling went on between the two preliminaries to persons really uimical to in each individual case of contact, owing to the Manchu regime. Then the comparative the want of some readily understandable case with which these riots are quelled and rule to which each could refer. This was suppressed is against the belief that there all very well as long as only the two were is in them any patriotism, as we concerned, but became a source of weakness ¦ understand it. It is true, as we achnitted i to both when a third Power entered the; when first referring to the subject, that the lists quite ready and well di-posed to get famine cannot be hell altogether account. them both by the ears. At last the one able, since some of the more serious of these thing needed for an understanding had been disturbances have originated in districts foun I, and it now was advisable in their where the pinch of famine has not been own interests to come to some common experienced; and it is quite plausible to agreement. This is really the secret under-anggest that the malcontents "have taken) lying the improved condition of affairs; and | advantage of the opportunity made by not any reversal of national policy nor any famine to stir up the starving people by unusual, or unprecedented exercise of in-suggesting causes for effects in their pro dividual acts of diplomacy on the part of paganda. We do not, however, believe that
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EMPIRES.
(Dady Press, 20th January.)
If Peking has been quite in earnest in endeavouring to introduce reforms in the administration of Government in China, it must be confessed that the results go fur are disappointing, and that the so-called reforms
have been confined to mere shufflings of the various executive branches, while the real abuses have been allowed to accumulate. The reason is largely that the word of the abuses are those concerned with the relations of the court 10 the provinces, and the method of appointment of every official in the Empire. The abuses are of ancient growth and of long standing, they have accumulated ∞ gradually that neither Court nor Province has been sensible of the fact, and so naturally that both have almost of necessity been drawn into the net, and now find themselves practically deprived of power to act independently. Speaking of very similar abuses which had grown up in the Roman Empire during the latter days of the Republic, a writer remarks:
"Extortion, whether it took the shape of illegal requisitions, of systematic blackmailing. which under an Honest governor-and there or straightforward robbery, was after all an evil
were many sch—was mitigated, if not removed
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