Show M M M M M M t. M M 4 M 4 M 4 M M M M H 4 H Ml 4 S WAR WAR IN CHINA 1 t MM M t M t M M I M-M-M M I M M M M n M M M M The story that comes from Canton today todar to the effect that twenty thousand imperial troops under Field Marshal Su haVe haie deserted to the rebels on the border is likely to be true After the brush General Geneal Ma la ha had with another body of if rebe rebets s the other day his troops did the s same me thin thing As neither Su Sn nor l 1 Ma naturally would like to leave their faithful and attached for fortes forces es feeling lonesome it t should be a reasonably safe wager that th they J went over with them and are now rebels themselves und under r th the supreme command of Prince Tuan fuan The Canton story conveys conveys' the idea that the pres present nt outbreak is on the order of the terrible Tai of 63 1860 which came near disrupting disrupt disrupt- in ing the Empire re We Ye are much mistaken if f any parallel bet between een the two can be found except that one big insurrection is apt to be like another asto asto as asto to its ph physical ical phenomena But the Tai Ping movement move mon ment at bottom wa wag a a. struggle for reform while the prese t one appears to be be- beno no more than a general general gen gen- en eral manifestation of that intense and bitter Chinese Chinese Chi Chi- nese hatred o of foreigners which the Emp Empress ess Do Dowager Dowager Dow Dow- ager agel and h her r following have have been actively exciting and f feeding eding ever since the war with Japan Whether th the trouble soon or 01 at all will extend to the tho coast provinces in a serious way war remains to be se seen n. n There is sufficient danger allger of it jt to warrant war war- rant t th the Powers lowers in keeping a tight hold of and the Taku Pekin-Taku lalm line of railway Common prudence pru dence deuce demands that It is not at all impossible that once more Tsi Hsi might be overpowered by bj her rebellious subjects in which case a fresh of the l l would siege legations be a ery very natural se se- se- se quence |