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Show BAD OUTLOOK IN CHINA. That is a bad outlook in China bad for the Western powers, bad for China because it is filled with premonitions of a great war, but one in which the advantages to be gained cannot be any compensation compen-sation for the losses to be sustained. If it should swell into a great war, we do not see how a partition of the empire could be avoided. Certainly Cer-tainly the powers will not be placed in a position to have a Boxer uprising every three or four years; neither will they be driven out of China; at least, not until China is better prepared than at present to enforce such a determination. It looks as though it would be an unprofitable and costly war and still as though it would be unavoidable. un-avoidable. . There is nothing in the present position of either. China" or Germany to indicate that the reign of peace is about to be ushered in. aSSBSSSB1MS1MM,,SBSBSSSSSMMM |