Show A TROUBLED OUTLOOK Yuan Shi Kai Kni has celebrated his ao ac cession to the pres presidency b by pardoning every convicted criminal in China except ex ox cent robbers and murderers He Ho h had d letter better enlist them in his ar army That Tat would zivo zi them something to lo do and might be bc b nouh to restrain restraint their beir t evil e proclivities Then should a lot of them be he killed it would not much matter mattor And audit it would ouM bo be better bettor to have o them Killed in war rather to behead thorn them B Bv By the tha way th the hurrying of some swift to the Chinese COI coast COIt t has both a good and a bad had look Jool Their presence there may ma mahave have a ac c d effect But if Russia and and Japan Tapan have bavo determined to take tae in Mongolia and Manchuria re respectively pe a lash clash there would ouId be he d disastrous for Japan Tapan has a dozen doren battleships ps ready for immediate immediate im im- im mediate use in iu those waters aters and Rusia Russia Rus sia ia has bas half a H million of veteran sol Eol Il fliers cr close by br Wo We can be sure RlUe that Great Britain would stand by hy Japan and anti Russia as a against G Germany rm ny and the States and neither of- of o the latter powers o ers could get et a battleship on that coast for months If Russ Russia Ruia a and ind Japan mean any n present deviltry de it jt t is la a a. serious business ss because because because be be- be- be cause the intention is to precipitate trouble before th tho completion of ot tho Panama canal Neither Russia nor Great Britain nor France nor Japan has been satisfied that China was not partitioned at the time of the bo cr troubled tru bl S Mongolia Mongolia-is is oro more than half Russian no now r ri h hi iia ia is is' is helpless ly I Inder under the heel heel- o of Japan Groat Great Britain has long co cot coveted t d. d the thc great central cen trad valley al of o China Chin Franco France wants to extend her boundaries daries in southern China Th Then n Japan Tapan and Russia Rusia wore much dis disgruntled when whon China elected to become a IL republic for both are arc ap ap- ap of what may may be bo with China under republican rule fifteen years ears hence with ith a n mif million on or two millions of trained soldiers under tinder arms and a hundred hundred millions more to dr draw w upon If trouble i ig ia postponed t for a couple of years ajl aJI those powers understand that the United Stat win will have the tho anal canal t finished nish d so o that her ber ships will willbo bo ho available on either cither ocean cean they all an realize that at any an moment our country country coun coun- tr try may become involved in trouble troubie with Mexico o it is not impossible th that t decided the whole hole array of them have havo that this is t-h t auspicious time to tomake tomake tomake make some changes ou the map of Asia The outlook is not nt au an encouraging ing lag o one e. e |