Show Tho news from China is gloomy I enough There Is no doubt but what the powers can combine and drive back the armies of Ihe Chinese although that is growing tp be very much more of a task than is at present generally comprehended com-prehended One single German firm has sold the Chinese 1GOOOO Mausers and 3000000 rounds of ammunition for their use They have ever since their defeat by Japan been training their armies under foreign ofilcers and with modern weapons The whole situation regardIng regard-Ing them has changed The position la ken by the Administration is the perfect one That Is that what may be done by the army and navy will be done to make right what has been wrong hut the United States does not want a foot of Chinese soil The result will be that when the war with China proper shall be finished then will arise complications which will take the steadiest kind of statesmanship to meet because neither Great Britain nor Russia nor Germany nor Japan will be willing to settle on a proposition of keeping the Chinese empire em-pire intact The difficulty with the United States will then begin how to try to adjust matters In a way to save China and to keep the other powers from insisting upon its division And when It comes 10 that how will the powers adjust their troubles without clashlngB I There are already jealousies jealous-ies about who shall lend In tho impending impend-ing struggle Germany It Is understood under-stood has gone mure than ball way and I proposes to give the chief command loa lo-a olllccr But that will not be i J l satisfactory to Russia Japan or Great Britain It Is a complication moro difficult dif-ficult to meet so far ns all present signs arc concerned than anything that has come to the world In a thousand years |