Show partitioning CHINA washington diplomats believe man chuna churia is lost to the chinese the tone of press advices from the european capitals have done much to depress officials in washington who have labored so long to preserve the integrity of china it begins to appear to them that manchuria Is hopelessly lost to china and the best that can be done now Is to save as much as possible from the wreck and therefore the effort will probably be made to procure from russia a binding promise that the powers will not be entirely deprived of the right to ex manchuria commercially it may be possible to secure the opening of one or two ports such as was proposed in the pending treaty between china and the united states which will probably have to be amended in view of these latest developments the fear as is expressed that the russian move ment will be copied by otner nations and that germany will proceed to ex tend her sphere of influence in the shan tung peninsula while france will overlap the borders of tonquin |