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Show U'i ENGLAND'S MISTAKE. . Till. Writer Says Her War In the Tninail Will CMt Hti Dearly In China. M. Paul Leroy-Eeaulieu, one of the most eminent French economists. ex presses himself in these terms in Kpenking of the relative influences of Kussia and England in China: "Each successive day, every rail laid in Manchuria increases - the' Uussian influence, and the sort of fascination which the czar exercises at- Peking. His power henceforth is without rivalry. ri-valry. . "England must be stricken with a j 'heritable dementia, to attach to her foot the South African chain, at an' hour so serious for her future in the extreme cast. . How much more.- her Asiatic interests must be important fcT her than the possession of the sterile plateaus, which smuggle ephemeral gold mines, and where she loses at this moment, besides thousands, of men and millions of money, a precious opportunity which she will never recover. re-cover. Her people recop-nize this at the same tne that they delude themselves them-selves with the vain hope of restoring it. It is too late, and the place is fatten. 'The scandalous war which she is prosecuting in South Africa is going to cost England her share ot China. That will be one of the chastisements of her criminal and sanguinary madness. mad-ness. "If the British empire is really, as Cecil Rhodes said, the first commercial purpose of the globe, it is a very i!l-directed i!l-directed one. While she is absorbed in an enterprise without either honor or profit, the immense and rich Chinese Chi-nese empire falls more and more surely sure-ly under the vassalage of the czar." |