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Show CHINA KG . A GREAT CRISIS IK HER HISTORY Contest Coming Between Central Government and Leaders of Provinces. WASHINGTON, Sept. II. In the opinion of student of oriental affairs. China la rapidly approaching a great crisis In her hlalory. The uprising In See Chun province la tipected to intend in-tend to other neighboring provinces, and. especially to the southward, where the Mongolian element haa for many yeara been opposed to the reigning Manchu dynasty. Evidently prepared for trouble, trou-ble, tha Chinese government haa been quirk to dlapath troopa to the disaffected disaf-fected district and to desl with the situation sit-uation with a strong hand. It la be- lievtd hsra that tha ejovemmeni win be able to suppress the present dls-' dls-' turbance, though the unforeseen disastrous disas-trous flooding of the Yang tee valley is expected to drive thousands of the unfortunate un-fortunate natives, whose means of support sup-port have been destroyed. Into-the ranks of tha revolutionists. But It Is believed that the Hse f'huen uprising Is onlv the forerunner of other outbreaks In different psrts of th flowery flow-ery kingdom, for the fact la that the truggle now aoing on llPHy gigantic gi-gantic test of the relative strength and power of the central government as opposed op-posed to the penvlnclsl governments; In other words, the situation resembles the great feudal wars of Kurope In the middle mid-dle ages. Japan also hart to pass through a similar ordeal before the emperor em-peror wss able to break the power of his mutinous barons, and It la believed that the Chinese government will soon be put to the same teat. While tha sympathy of occidental nations na-tions must remain with the Chinese central cen-tral government, there can be no Interference Inter-ference In this great Internecine strife, and the activities of other nations, at least for the present, must he confined to the protection of their own citlsens resident In China. |