Show WILL DIVIDE CHINA K It the Oriental ul are to be relied on 00 Japan aims aim alm at nothing less 1 than the partition of China in three bree separate divisions and placing over each an independent native ruler Li Hung Chang being mentioned as once Otle ie of them The plan must mu t have been conceived in a moment when the rulers of Japan had bad become dizzy count onao cou count nt of the victories victor already gained on land and sea lea over their fOe foes It is 18 evident that the Japanese forces 10 so far tar ba have ve had batt the better of ot the war even when allowance i is made for tor the usual exaggerations oJ of the report reports Their ships bip are superior and their army better die ol They have haTe driven the Chinese back and are on the road to Pekin But notwithstanding all aU these advantages it i ii is not oot to be expected that if the war is i carried on to the bitter end they can effect so o complete a subjugation of the empire as a the plan planor for or It its ita partition would imply It Ii may maybe b be possible tor for the mikado it if general rebellion in China should take place to depose d po e the present dynasty but when that li is done the Chinese them them- themselves selves elve who are not DOt inspired by eo- eo en lor for the present ruler would mot most probably rally for tor the defense ot of the country and drive the Japanese iu- iu vaden in-vaden from their borders borden They might be defeated again and again but their stories would still Itin till receive e rei reinforce 0 torae- torae and by their very defeat would learn laIn to fight and to conquer r until the foreigners exhausted and decimated would have bave to return to their own awn territory And then the role roles might po possibly be reversed The Chinese might take a notion to carr carry the be war over to the Islands Island'S and make it exceed exceed- exceedingly exceedingly unpleasant there It Il i is true that numbers in modern madern warfare do do not count quite as IS much as a they once ance did but a country with hundreds ot of millions of ot inhabitants cannot cannat be sliced up very e easily Japan had bad better learn a lesson from the wars ware of ot Peter the Great with his western neighbor When first he be met methis his youthful antagonist on the shores of Nar Narva a nis nie numerous hordes bardes were scattered like chat before the wIno wina and Charles XII XU bad dreams of at divid divid- dividIng dividing dividing ing the empire between his friends Time and again the czar cear rallied his hordes and reinforced them only to meet defeat before the army of Swedes But he be carried on an tb the war and at last he be found bl his where the invaders were routed and the country got gat rid of the enemies It took years to accomplish thie ut it was nevertheless done and it was by a persevering policy of resistance e and over over- overwhelming overwhelming whelming numbers that the victory wu was achieved which established Russia BusBia as a great power of af the world and saved ved it from partition The Chinese once free from Irom f torn the hated bated foreign rulers would be likely to mass themselves around some Peter the treat Great of af their own and if it they do their san san- sanguine san sanguine guine neighbors have bave but small email chance of 01 accomplishing their object To have bave China broken up in trag frag fragments ments would certainly be a great thing to Japan That would establish the l latter country as al the first power ot of eastern Asia which by the way is the dream of ot that kingdom Japan sail a high official some Borne time tiDle ago agoto agoto agoto to a missionary has a glorious future The kingdom of or the Rising Sun will yet shine far and wide The rho world will see aee and know that the island empire Has a mission minion as glorious as it is Ie certain And it Is Ie the of at that coming glory glary Which animates the people to raise their cry On fn to Pekin as the French once shouted A 11 la Is It Is another question however how the ancy ancy of ot Japan would affect the inter inter- interests interests e ests of the remainder of af the world The powers interested may n not not t object bJ ct to a little brush between the two uvo coun coun- countries countries countries tries but should it go too far tat there would certainly be interference and it Itis itIs is Ie not Dot likely that they would allow Japan to acquire the tremendous tremendous dous douB In influence which it would gain by dividing China and virtually assuming supremacy of the wh whole le Whatever changes the war may bring about it la ie therefore not likely that the Man Mongolian oUan empire at t this time will willbe willbe be wiped oft off the map of the W world |