Show CHINA READY FOR WAR Reign of Terror Predicted for Celestial Celes-tial EmpireOnly One Good Army In Country Serious Flaws of Soldiers Peking China Is a volcano Close observers not in Peking because Peking Pe-king Is not the place to get tho real news concerning China but foreigners foreign-ers long resident In the interior In Shantung and Chill put the explosion nine years hence Educated Chinese bring it nearer For the present however the Amciican in China is as secure as ho would be in his homo in the United States It is well understood in official and other circles that It is useless to kill foreigners There Is a general running run-ning after foreign things and foreign ways K3n having foreign training are in demand Tho same men had to run for their lives In Boxer times At the same time there is anxiety to shako off foreign control of everything every-thing partly from a now feeling of national pride and partly from a desire de-sire to keep the good things for the Chinese Misgivings for the future aro based on fear of an antldynastic rising probably prob-ably on tho part of the radicals This would become partly antiforeign and In any case would mean anarchy There are a great many armies In China but tho only ono that counts is Yuan Shl Rats northern army The Chinese are raising big horses somewhere In Mongolia for tho ultimate ulti-mate use of tho army and hope to remount their cavalry In about four years Of tho other arms tho mei are smart and the recent spring ma Heavers were most creditable There are serious Haws In tho army Tho Chinese soldiers will blaze away blank cartridges In flue style but they are not trained to shoot Target practice prac-tice is rare It Is doubtffll if tho inert would follow their officers except to the rear and It Is doubtful If tho offl cois would go anywhere else Tho American boycott never seriously se-riously affected tho interior A few Items of United States Imports camo Into the Interior In smaller quantities pro tem It was a question for tho ports particularly those in the south Tho Shanghai riots wero purely local and magnified by Shanghai hysteria A serious question is tho educational one which gives rlso to the young China movement This Is founded on conceit the basis of Chinese student stu-dent character They are about ono quarter educated and think their education edu-cation is complete |