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OF AIX LA-CHAPELLE. Fat may be said of the Agrement bot of TINE Undersigned, having been appointed qual moment to the world at largs bien carried Through with lens misgiving in the minds of AGENTS for the above Company, Brorities or wit's greater certainty that its provi- prepared to ACCEPT BISKS against FIRE sions will be of the utmost value in the interests

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That its extention should be simultaneous with theree descence in China of a reactionary policy is a coneidaues to be noted, but the fact is overtheless of good augurs. ombinations AND MERCANof Powers that, divastly or indirectly, have of the maintance of the xisting situation, ne far AN concorns the torriterial integrity of the Chinese Empire, pice, will assuredly be of no ordinary weight and importapec in the days that ara comparatively near at boul, judging from the evilances that are accumulating on a sides of growing uneasi 2 within China's borders, The juduerne that it is to be brought to bear by the allied The Dulomiguel AGENTS for the phone

nations cu scarcely bo mamred by the common Company, are prepared to ACCEPT RISKSodard when the Peking Government is con- Against. FIRE at Carront Rates,

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fonsin, and it' ouly remains to explain in a this freak menace to the tranquillity of the Far dogroo the attitude of the Japsness towarzy

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FALSEHOOD OR INDISCRETION

which

Some of our readers te don less road a book bearing the title Fodiscreet Lotters from

the aspersion of the British Minister, we may recall that when Sir Claude left the Chinese capital after the eloge, Dr. Morrison wired to the Times"Sir Claude Mac- nifestations of regres by the entire mine mit

Poking amid genuine who grateful y remember his splendid services during the recent slege, when the chief dirao- tion of the defence was in his haude.

The Japan Chronicle says -From one cause or another the sloge of the Peking Logations

1906 curious impet as to what called, according to tom paramont, laginutive or unscrupulous journalism Thore was the case of the telegra journal which announced that all the foreigners to a notorious London Boxers and circumstances of shunking bar- there is un Legessity to do sore than one

Peking had been done to death by the

As we say, for the carsful reader in the East brity,a lekegram which was reproduced by the evidsnes en the other side, Ho will bo thanks to the Daily Mail for its curtos,plomat has been engaged in its compilation- the finer, with acknowledgements not rineal before going far into the book that av together will

shoot of obituary notices that the writer of the lettera Fent's Cathedral for victim whe in the statements are guesswork animated by dies, Was over in the and followed by a umorist servies in St. diplomatic service of any country, and that his Pen majority of us are happily still with us. "but is the auclusion we hats arrived at not There was af the case in which the D-lysuly from in'ornal evidence but from other Express woul ene, batter than the Daily Mail, iaforontion in our pos-assion. We think wo tad published a telegrain with even more groe can make a shrewd gross at the genesis of the

me, and harrowing details than that which book. It was had sold us a large stition of its rival. It boting and outrages after the relief of the Legn

auhappily in the suppression of was moreover, the telegrams from Shanghai tips at the British and other Ministers incuer. relating to the singe of the Legations

of the resentment of certaia of their nationale. strengthened the impression that Press corres Strong mences had to be taken, even in some pondents in that part of the world had ofther cases to the issue of warrants, against men who, remarkably inventive imaginations or were of a as the writer of the book allenly admits, credulity which was hard to parallel pls where, took advantage of their knowledge of Paking with the result that Shanghai suffered seriously geography and their intimate sequaintane with

reputation.

Chine o assistane original forays of pillage

and Paking, and purporting on the tilla paga to ba pastorn order were 8>

bkmail, To such ma the offerts of Sir Claude MacDonald and the other Ministers to interferences with Let it be said at the outer that Japan is not edited by B. L. Patrum Wuals. That book, legitimate privale

enterpris Hay to be held accountable for fin doings of "Tongals, tears acid al Kraew of having been cum

and the issue of warrant, oven though it could be evadost by China" when ones the audants who may have fatetured in Shanghai. Mr. Pain Weale says kepping outside the section of the city where It bon passing a portion of their tim in Tokyo and the letters are by a diplom it, who "how exactly might be exeated, was nothing short of a offer Japanese citíos return to their homes in was going on from day to day, mul escandalius anteage on

arkiviral liter the Flowery Tan: For the sale opted the Chinese capital during the deplorable times that the writer of these agad "Indiscret

from hour to hour, in the diplomie warl f1* • Shall we be wrong ing

to the conclusion in coming! respect of those students stay abroad the Chinese are themselveszi as far as

of the Boxer movement. All that he claims to Tetters" is of this type, and that the friend Japan isio quodtion it is

have done is simply to edit the diary for whom a book is animated Putnam Weal has undertaken when Japanese students were gut sold to christ the compilation Indiverest Letters, the editing" arquire knowledge they were subject to regula from Teking," In strike out passages which merely by hatred of those who spoiled his that we quite different from the by could not at the present moet given plans for personal aggrandisement? The which the Galagoas band da-day. Tlary bad publicity, and, we may, add, to substitute initiabe trick nods to its offence, in that it is doubly every incentive to work, and in practice they lad for familiar nues in such swig that feality avengmans. The alle diplomat" to whom ilure or inclination in this days for in. is not for a moment could. When, bas-is attribal at only onceals his idulity, dulging in the study of polities. Wouluile, of ever, Mr. Putnam Weile again sits down "to but we fanturs to assert ha has do existenes enues, to the early yours of the Meiji ors, when edit letters, bawiy bedsien trestriks on thoas while "Putnam Waals is itself on asu the sins of thean Japanos, who were despitole portions of the correspondenes hileting a nama and a rave nam deplome. Tut it is alred was to accumulata store of ufal knowledge of evente sub equent to the dafe at under this double anonymity, if the phrasa may information such as might be expacked to yield a which the particnlag for was written. A be permith, has the serions charges, are practic t I return for the investment of time sal man does not usually record in May that a sda mi the untry and endurance which

would be better It

tur 1. prospects of certain individual only forecasted what marked a terrible stern subjected to maleve'ont Young Clinu." perhaps. if

was soon to happen” «hou that hopp jigg did singers, The writer who asmos the mane Astroth Boss of the Chinese wera to

not taice

Betil Jane. Thus worded, | of." Parma Wala will not all to his also at this stage of their career. It is

it certainly

is clear the practise of the Japanese Government to The event le Petion" is subescent to aridit by these "Tadiscreet Latiara," he real indiscretions of which are the sif. revelations rage or avan to permit the diesomination

they uncrasoiously embdg Chinese stodonts in Japan, and Sun Yat revotionary principios by agitators among

while their tors and, tomper cau

only b mubated by all with way so of forms. Seu's offorts in this direction, for arimple, hare

or justice, and sad as 5 wonder that way consistently frowned upon from the first.

respectable publisher man her been found to Apart from the lendensy in tulgo in anti-

ass plate file name with such a work, Wa only dynastic schemes of reform however, which are Fory

fi

but

of

in

to say that

attantian,

are many chindies tions that the latters are bogus, that they were not written by a diplomat 5 allered, that they has not had to be cited" to asoid even worse disclosness than are mail at that they were edited after the siege with motives that will scarcely bear investigation,

The book

Yunlikely to reach'a xarious stage in the both in intently be described as mabeious | nalime the book by way of antering a protest

and exention. Witor the against this tempt on the part of an whony- Immediate future, thora is not, it is balieval, writer is dealing with the comtilions parsilingus ribe, si tolbys pun lorious elitar, any actual basis for apprehension of disorder before the memorable uprising in Peking in to enrol the characters of men who have, † in China on a large smic, and the more that the 1900, the actual sings of the Legations, or the doubleas for good and suffiunt ragou, oarneÏ

East becomes ashoointed with the West in com-

looting which took place when the relieving his deep resentment. poots like that which France and Japsa hayenemy entered the Chiucas capiti), the ander ving now practically entered into the loss becomes the likelihood that Chian will of her own accord take any slop reactionary or otherwise, that would be callsfed to invite the interference of oniside Powers

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motive throughout appears hatred of tha Foreign Representatives and contempt for the unofficial foraigners who for so many wook were exposed to the danger a terrible.dunth, Indeed, with the possible exemption of Colonel Shiba, who commanded the Japanese, the only individual throughout the siege who appeaESTNUT WALER MARE, very quiet worthy of praise is the writer of tho intors himself, who on his own showing displayed a courage and

eroures that is always making drafts on the reader's imagination, but even he umbed, when this Legations were finally to the fierce joys and not inconsider- able profits sawmed up in the word. ""Jant.” flis ercase is that "everybody was tarred with the same brash, which, imppily, there is ample reason to beliere is as unfounded as many other statements in the book.

While the writer is especially concerned to asporo the Foreign Ministers, and in particular Sir Clauds MacDouald, the book is a libel on the garrison as a whole. The great majority are directly charged with the basest poltronery, According to the writer, cany

all-bodied akulked in the comparatively protected British Legation, and even hid these vor for days at a time, only omerging at the conclusion of the Biage to receive the meed of heroes, If there be

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