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Show AMERICAN TROOPS FOR CHINA. The Fifteenth 1'. S. Infantry, winch was recently at Fort Douglas here, has. after some delay, been ordered to China. I ho ostensible object being the protection of the railioad between Tien Tsin and Peking. Troops of other nations are now . engaged in that, work, and (treat Britain is doing the American stunt pending (he arrival jjf the American troops. The War Department De-partment has been- ready for this call for some time, and the orders were promptly transmitted upon the receipt .of the request of the Secretary of Stale to send the troops. , It is a critical period iu China's affairs, af-fairs, and the United States cannot ! afford to be unrepresented there by a force which will size up with the forces of .other nations represented in ..China. All of the leading 'nations of the world arc interested iu the fate of the ancient empire, and all have agreed that the territorial integrity ol I h!it empire must be preserved. If is plain, however, seen iu the encroach-meals encroach-meals of Hussia iu .Mongolia and East era ' Turkestan, that the international agreement has been violated; But Hussia has very adroitly taken advantage advan-tage of the helplessness of the Chinese Government, and is projecting her authority over Mongolia under false pretenses. She will undoubtedly donv that she is detaching Mongolia 'from- China; she will make the plea "that. Mongolia has seceded from China, that disorders are rampant in the province, and that, on being called upon to suppress these disorders, China was helpless "to do so. and that, therefore, b'ussia must send a force stillicieut to restore older, and there will be a disclaimer of any intent to .ihscrf Russian authority over Mongolia, Mon-golia, at the same time that the Russian authority is, in fact, being extended through the province on false pretenses. Direct diplomacy is therefore helpless unless the powers unite in demanding that Russia shall let Mongolia and Fastcru Turkestan alone, which thfcy are not likely to do, because Great Britain is so tied up with Russia, and is "getting so much of thp "pork" herself in Tibet and Persia, that she cannot afford to join iu a protest, against Russia's aggressions. ag-gressions. -Still, if the oueroachmeuts upon China go no further than they have, nd if the- sovereignty of China over Muuchuria is still recognized, there will be no great harm done to the Chinese Kinpire in the detachment from it of Mongolia, Eastern Turkestan, aXd Tibetf The great empire will be practioallv untouched bv the segregation segrega-tion ol tVee diMointed e'emcnts, an I I the ( luur e people as a. nlnlc Will be a compact entity; but this only on the supposition that partition will go no further. But the trouble is, with the partition going as far as it has, other uations arc liable ' to demand "compensation," "com-pensation," this being a robber term, meaning that where one nation steals from another, the other nations must be allowed to conic in aud steal correspondingly, cor-respondingly, to get evcu at the cost of the common victim. The news' that peace is likely to prevail pre-vail iu China comes none too soon: for if there Is to bo an- China at all, it is time that the Chinese were getting together, restoring peace and order, aud putting themselves in a position to resist re-sist aggression and claim their rights. |
