Show PARTITION MUST COME why the celestial empire bids fair we go to pieces february review of reviews reviewer sr the situation on the chinese coast that has followed germanys germanas Germ anys seizure of ka kiau au chou has continued to hold the foremost place in the attention of the world nobody knows what will happen eventually but it Is not likely that the great game of chinese partition is to begin at once in due time however the chinese empire bids fair to go to plows pieces we have been accustoms in times past to think of the chinese as several hundred minions of perfectly homogenous people As a matter of fart fact although they belong to the great yellow division of the human race the diversities of type in the different parts of china are greater than the diversities versi ties among white men of europe and there is less lesa connection and by tar far less sympathy among them than among the discordant population elements that make up the present day conglomerate that we know as the austro hun garian empire there is an immense range of dialects in china and it often happens that the people of one neighborhood cannot talk with those who live in another four or five miles away there is no such thing in china as a pervasive national feeling or an I 1 imperial patriotism the various provincial governments are not underarm under firm control by the central governments government and such military and naval forces as exist are provincial rather than im imperial aerial the chinese 0 of f different provinces and sections hate each other worse than they hate the foreigners of other races when aben the moment arrives for a of china upon a plan that would not injure Lur european peace the thing can be carried out as easily as was the garman germ an landing and conquest at klao chou |