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THE RENDITION OF WEI-HAI-WEI.
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for such time as Port Arthur re mained in the possession of Ruasis,” As an offset and check to the de signs of more aggressive Powers No one at that time-least of all the statesmen of Peking And St. Petersburg for a moment supposed that the Russian lease would not ba renewed in due course. There was, in fact, no limit to Russian ambi- tion-neither the Great Wall on the one side, nor the Yalu River on the other; and the Japanese proposal that one Power should have 3 free hand in Manchuria, the other in Korea, was scornfully turned down. Se
Britain Books Russia.
There remained opposition from the British whose interests in China were and are purely commercial, and we find Count Muraviefi the querulously cornplaining to British Ambassador at St. Peters burg, "It was England alone that made difficulties and stood in the way of Russia." A first-class war in Europe was out of the question but there was a vulnerable spot, an Achilles heel, at the other end and presently there arose on the eastern horizon a little cloud out of the sca,, like a man's hand," precursor of a storm that was to have start- "ing and unexpected results.
Meanwhile, with misplaced” ro lianes on a single line of railway some thousands of miles in length, Russian aggression marched on, and the total expenditure on the fortification of Port Arthur, the development of Dalny and railway construction in Manchuria, prob- ably exceeded £60,000,000-833, three to four, times the amount spent by Germany on-Tsingtao and the Shantung Railway.
A_25-Year Lease...........
which has yet to receive due re cognition at Nanking and Port Arthur passed into the possession of Japan, the term of the lease be- ing subsequently increased to, I be. lieve, 100 years-one of the "twenty- one demands,"
to
volonies-from. onë: Government the other, from the peace, accurity and justice of British administra- ting to the misrule, oppression and iniquitous taxation rampant across our border: and a small, very small, group of Britons, civilians and public servants, will have to face anancial and other losses, im mediate and, potential. Is the pic ture too gloomy? Time will show,
The Question of Precedent. Lawyers set great store by pre eedents, and the establishment of a Fine Legal Foints,
new one is a veritable bagbear' to The legal purist with an eye on the official mind-rightly so. But the actual working of the Wei-bai-unusual features mark Britain's wei Convention (1808) will be justi. connection with Wei-hai-woi. There fied in contending that the British was the invitation from Peking tenure of Wei-haiwel, should have while a Japanese army still oc- terminated in 1905 when Port Arthur ceased to be Russian: the cupied the place: the reluctant ac ceptance for political reasons: the ordinary lawyer will agree that hoisting at the same spot on the what is known as "equity" tends
some day of three national flags in to modify a too strict interpreta succossion-Japanese, Chinese and tion of the written law: the man in British: the extraordinary clause- the street would like to import a in. the treaty putting no definite little common sense into the discus-pariod to British tenure: the sacri sion. The British Government's fice of a pawn at Washington for view was expressed in the official an illusory gain. Taking all the statement in the House of Common facts into consideration, it is safe (February, 1908),It is not con
to assert, not only that these occur sidered that the transfer of the Rus rences have no, parallel in British sian lease of Port Arthur to Japan history, but that they will never has made any change in the present occur again. Our bugbear becomes status of Wei-hai-wei, which is leas
'a bogey. ed to His Majesty's Government, and
A reference to the temporary re- ao action is at present contemplated trocession of the Transvaal 50 years With regard to the lease." Part of go seems pertinent. The Dutch at an official communication (May, the Cape disliked British rule-par 1908) to the writer from the British tioniarly, the abolition of slavery, Legation, Peking, reads, “,
crossed the frontier in substantiai ramours respecting arrangements numbers and carved out for them for restoring Wei-hai-wei to China selves a new state. There was lack are unfounded, no negotiations on of cohesion, a rooted objection of the subject having been even sug-payment of taxes, and the Repulic seated as yet by either side." A was brought to the verge of bank- subsequent letter from the same reptes, the pound note failing in source (July, 1906) concludes with value to one shilling. The massing. the sentence, Sir Ernest Satow of Zulu hordes on their borders directs me to inform you that such threatened invasion, perhaps anni- rumours should be entirely dis hilation, and Britain intervened. regarded.?)
Cetywayo was forbidden to fight and obeyed, though the Dutch have tired me out and I intended. T to drive them over the Vanl." Aa nexation seemed the only alter- native. There were vigorous pro tests from the Boers and a bitter. complaint from their President against his own people" I would rather a policeman under a strong. government than the President of such & State.. It is you Boers...... who have lost the country." Then, now, international- gratitude seems to have been at a discount.
It is clear that China raised no objection, made no immediate pro test against the British view as ex- pressed in Parliament. What more natural and logical in these circum stances than the assertion of the Commissioner of Wei-hai-wei that the British lease would continue for such time. as Port Arthur shall remain in the possession of another Power British prestige demands it."-
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In these circumstances no one outside Bedlam would have ventur- ed to contend 30 years ago that Russia did not intend, or that China did not expett, an extension of the Port Arthur lanse to 90 years, if not in perpetuity; and it would not be difficult to fill a column, or two, of the ordinary newspaper with a list of the assurances official and anofficial, verbal and written-
The Washington Conference, which local Britons have received to allay natural anxiety respecting A hitch occurred at the Washing
The Blunders of Sentiment. ton Conference-a dispute over the the British tenare of. Wei-bai-wei.
There followed one of our little Nevertheless, shortly after the Japanese occupation of ex-German. Washington Conference, an indivi- territory-and it was of the highest wars: Zulu power, was broken at a dual in a responsible position and importance that the difficulty cost of some 25,000,000 and Cety- should be removed. Hence we have wayo passed out of history into apparently in full possession of his
the British offer of withdrawal exile. The disappearance of the faculties, did in fact put forward.
from Shantung, if Japan would do Zalu menace and the withdrawal of an extraordinary contention,, since
likewise. It can be stated with con- British forces from, South Africa repented by others. The tenure offidence that not a single delegate encouraged the Boers to renew the Wei-hai-wei was for 25 years,
at the Conference for a moment. demand for complete independence: terminating in 1923: the Britan who made his home and invested supposed that Britain was offering open revolt followed: (1880); und
territory the legal title to which amall British force was overwhelm capital here must have been aware
had lapsed 17 years before, or ac-
od at Majuba Hill. Though sub- of the fact he gambled on the future pad lost common occur-cording to another view, was due stantial and sufficient reinforce
to expire in a few months. On the ments were already landing or on" rence in everyday life: he had
contrary, Lord Baifour's cfler is the sea, then, as now, the sentiment- made his bed and should lio on it.
said to have caused a "sensation" alista, propagandists and Little This line of argument would seem
it. was described as a generous Englanders of that generation had to imply that official assurances
gesture and China's represents their way: Mr. Gladstone climbed are unreliable and is, for that rea-
tives at the Conference and in down: and, with a single reserva- son, the more absurd.
London formally thanked the tion, the Boers gained complete in- British Government for its genero-dependence. Gladstone received loud sity.
praise from some for magaanimity
"
The Russo-Japanese War The Anglo-Japanese Alliance kept the ring clear and the two Powers, In passing, it might be noted that the patient conciliation" of to- the display at Wei-hai-wei of a little day he was vigorously abused by France and Germany, who on a
of the same generosity that flowed others for weakness-some enraged previous occasion had intervened with Russia to deprive Japan of the so freely at Washington would not Britons going so far as to drag spoils of war, new found it conven- only receive the fullest apprecia- their flag through the dust on the ient to assume the role of passive, if tion, but would probably not offend streets of Pretoria: in the light of generally accepted notions of pub gabsequent events we see to-day that interested, spectators. The nihilation of her fleets at sea, militie-morality and decency. The Con- his surrender was a stupendous ary disasters at Port Arthur and ference was successful: the agree blunder. Ia history repeating itself? on the plains of Manchuria, prick- ment regarding the limitation of
Some British settlers had follow- ed the bubbls of Russian reputa naval armaments bas effected anded the flag: strange as it may neem tion: the Colossus of the North will continue to effect very substan- to some, they preferred to continue baulked in the quest for ice-free tial savings in national expendi under that fag: They, too, could ports and general domination in ture and there seems the "less point to definite assurances: in the Far East, was driven back to reason for anything approaching particular, there was the declara
tion by the High Commissioner, calder regions: China was saved parsimony. from dinaption-a historical fact,
General Wolseley, to a public as- sembly of Boers at their capital, that the British flag would fly at Pretoria for such time as the sun shone above them There was no repudiation of official liability and these settlers were assisted to dis pose of their property and take up farms in British territory at an outlay of about £50,000.
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What of the Future. In a part of the world where the unexpected so often happens it is not safe to prophesy or dogmatize regarding the future, but the opinion of an old resident, who has watched the development of Port Edward from a small fishing village to its present size and prosperous condition, might be given for what Taking all the circumstances into it is worth. The story of the pros consideration, there seems no rea perity of Wei-hai-wer is the story son why a like generous attitude of most free ports continguous to should not be adopted at Wei-bai- territory where import and export wei: some sort of guarantee given duties are levied. The reasor is not that if living conditions become far to seek and, other things being impossible, or intolerable, or if de equal, the heavier the taxation on finite financial loss is incurred one side of the boundary line, the through Government action, the greater the prosperity on the other. Briton concerned will not be left Properity based on such foundan the lurch. tions might fairly, be described as Artificial: A glance at the map should convince an unbiassed-mind that the geographical position of
The romance of the French Wei-hai-wei, as a port-near the ex- Atlantic flight of last year is to treme end of the Shantung Promon-end in divorce. Mme. Areolant tory and backed by a mountainous (formerly Miss Pauline Parker, a binterland is unfavourable that New York actress), wife of M in competition with Chefoo on the Assolant, one of the crew of Yellow one side, with Tsingtao and its rail- Bird, which few from. America way on the other, both nearer to to France last June, has filed suit for divorce at the the producing centres of the Pro-4 vince, the prospects of the local Palais de Justice. The judge. has accepted the divorce papers. trader are very doubtful: and that retrocession might easily spell com- and summoned the couple to appear mercial disaster. Cui bono Fol before him to discuss the alimony Mme lowing rendition and the establish me. Assolant demands. mens of a Custome, House, Nanking Assolant. says her husband moved will acquire some" face," but ap her into small lodgings in the Latin parently little elses two-thirds of Quarter and denied her comforte our trade will probably disappear: she had a right to expect M hundreds will be thrown out of em Assolant met his wife in New York ployment General Liu, all-power- and married her three days before ful in these parts but doubtful his Atlantic flight. He could not friend of. Nanking, who has done speak English and sho knew no his best to squeeze Cheloo dry, will French. At the time Mme. Assolant
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