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Show THE YELLOW" TERROR, AS VIEWED BY THE PILOT. The recent news from China has been sensational in the extreme, and it is to be hoped that like most sensational news, it is largely exaggerated. The j German ambassador at Pekin, Baron I von Ketteler. was foully murdered on June 18. and it is feared that members ! of the other 'legations have shared his fate. A Shanghai dispatch of July 6 stated that the Boxers had murdered all the . foreigners in Pekin, and also 5.000 native Catholic converts, under circumstances of atrocious torture. Prince Tuan is reported to have usurped the supreme powers, putting to death the emperor and empress and ordering a general massacre of foreigners. foreign-ers. The allied troops near Tien Tsin ) iaiied in their attempt to relieve the di- plomats and other foreigners at Pekin. j The several European powers, mutu-' mutu-' ally jealous of one another, appear to : be united on only one policy, which is that of giving Japan a "mandate" to complete the work left undone in 189, when Russia compelled her to withdraw from the conquered Chinese territory. These powers, among which Russia probably is not included, propose now . to let Japan do all the work and gather the spoils. It is doubtful if the island empire will undertake that risky enterprise, enter-prise, especially as the emperor of Germany Ger-many has already ordered a fleet to avenge the murder of his ambassador, i and threatens to collect a heavy indem-! indem-! nity, which means a large slice of territory, terri-tory, for the insult offered to his flag. Russia is not saying much, but may be depended upon to secure the' larger portion of any spoil on hand. Count Cassini, who was Russian minister at Pekin after the Japanese .war. notes that the Chinese have learned a good deal about the art of fighting since that time. He says: Port Arthur, a fitst-class fitst-class fortress, was captured with a loss of fifteen men to the Japanese,' but 400 Europeans were killed in the capture of the paltry forts at Taku. It mus he admitted this is a serious change. The discipline of the Chinese has also changed." Great Britain, having her hands full in South Africa, is unable to play a leading part in the present drama. Therefore she discourages the idea of partitioning China among the great pow ers. Therefore also our state de . nartment, taking its instruction from ', London, echoed the words of England; i but strangely dumb is the recent blat- ; ant Anglo-Saxon voice whic h split the air with loud boastings of how Eng- ' land and the United States were able to ; divide the world up between them. A handful of farmers in the Transvaal and a mob of fanatics in China have ' sufficed to silence the windy braggart. Other races than the Anglo-Saxon I have reason to be apprehensive of the '"awakening of the Yellow Terror. I Should the teeming hordes of China ! find a leader capable of welding them I into a strong military force and arm- j ing them with modern weapons, which i any nation in Christendom will gladly sell to them for cash, it would be a sad i clay for the co-called civilization which ! dreams only of conquest and lives only for the sordid ends of trade. Mora ' than once before in the world's history I all Asia and a great part of Europe I have been overrun by the countless ' swarms of the far east. - A new Ghengi:i Khan or Tamerlane would be able to ! lead millions of hardy Tartars, reinforced rein-forced perhaps by millions of fanatical Hindoos, against the common enemy, and scourge the white world as the Huns did their forefathers 2,000 years ago. In the face of such a possibility how stupidly suicidal are the national quarrels quar-rels and rivalries of the preat Dowers of the west! How fatuous especially would this nation be to take sides with any of them against liussia, the one empire mighty enough to stem successfully success-fully the torrent of Asiatic invasion! Russia, unlike any other European power, absorbs the barbaric peoples whom she subjugates. England. Franca and Grmany conouer but never assimilate. assim-ilate. As for the United States, it is the i least fitted of all to rule an alien people peo-ple differing from our own in race and color. We have failed miserably in trying try-ing to do it with the red and the black; and if we do not leave the yellow alone, it mav refuse to leave us alone in the j not distant future. |