| Show ANOTHER EASTERN complication N A FEW days ago it was announced that the leading european powers with one exception had decided to withdraw their representatives from china this action was taken because the chinese government failed to afford foreigners within teat that country adequate protection this practical protest against the violent outrages perpetrated upon white people in ID china was to be expected but the peculiar part of the situation was the exception the government which declined to combine with the other powers in taking this step was that of russia yet the natives of that country were as much subjected to violence frow from chinese mobs as those of any other nation the czar evidently had a subtle purpose in holding aloof from the demonstration against the government of china the evident ob object eject now comes to light it will je be observed by a dispatch ilis patch which appears in this issue that through the representations of the british government china has become alarmed on account of the russian military movements in the district which is on the west border of the chinese empire the minister of the latter to russia has been requested to proceed to st petersburg burg and obtain assurances regarding the designs of these military petitions expeditions ex there can be no doubt that the czar anticipated the alarm now felt by china and asan as an offset prepared himself to give assurances of friendship forthe for the chinese government a strong point in that direction being his ability to refer to the fact that he had bad declined to combine with the other powers in the va withdrawal of representatives the czar has baa been paving the way for fojt an understanding with china in the hope perhaps that it might ripen into an alliance on the other hand great britain ts te arousing china to a ben sense be of alarm I 1 rm b be cause of muscovite movements on the chinese border england may wa well be on the alert seeing that afghan territory has according to trustworthy information been also violated by the pm bus sian elan military expeditions which have occupied the taw table land an a based base one thing is clear in connection with S 1 the he russian encroachments encroach ments of the iffat few months that the affairs of abit 1 empire are being manipulated by sub tle tie and able strategists and dip lomage A it to is somewhat remarkable that tho the british government does not make J co counter linter demonstration in the direct direction lop of as ae it did at over the affair of the dardanelles Darda nelles if lora beaconsfield Beacons field were alive and at the 1 head of tha administration it is fairly certain that action would have been Z t taken before now lord salisbury belongs to the same school of stat statesmen eeme va s1 sa i as beaconsfield Beacons field and was one of the 3 batters lat stalwart and capable a 1 I but he is less prompt he probably hesitates because ot of a recent russian threat voiced through a semiofficial semi official source to the effect that inter interference ferenc with the expeditions wo would d r result in the opening of hostila hostilities alep doubtless england hesitates in begin ning ding a war of which the wig wisest es t men man art unable to seethe see the end after it shall commence |
