Show r OSS T J I ACROSS ASIA i i Prof G Frederick Wright of Oberlln college wIth a corps of assistants was In northern China when the Boxer I inassacYes begun mist year He Thread his ay ouu through Manchuria and then fol1oyln the line of the Siberian I road canjo through l to St Petersburg I He gIVcs his I perlcrtces J In an article I entitled Across Asia In I the Ihdo pondent The readlhg of It gives one in Idea of the fearful situation which not only made a place of terror of all that t region tlast rcUbut It leaves uppn the mind a pained Impression that In northern and central Asia there Is the beginning of a swarming of barbarians which wJll keep that vast region one of the worlds terrors for yours to conic One feels a thrill of 1 sympathy fOr Russia on reading the article and can believe the sincerity I of her assertion that she wants nothing of MunchurJa except a peaceable right I pf wsty for her railroad Prof Wright I says Russia Is confronted with hostile I tribes all the way from the Caspian sea to the Pacific and predicts trouble for her for years to come But she Ispushing her way and like glacier Is J grinding out a path for future civilization and seems like n destiny that has been uprcared thereto there-to work harsh reforms But It the millennium Is anywhere near that region re-gion It Is not visible to the human eye After nineteen l hundred years since tile Masters coming that Asia seems Just ite harsh and fierce and untamable as it was when old Ghonuls Khan swept through with his organized or-ganized murderers ItIH good to think that the American Ameri-can forces arC about to be withdrawn from there for there Is a taint upon that land which breeds plague germs that attack alike the physical and moral structure of POOl mortality |