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Show In the Far Cast. If treaties between civilized powers mean anything It is dltlicull to see how Britain and Japan can do otherwise other-wise than fight, ir Russia Insists on holding Manchuria as a Russian province. If Russian history means anything, It Is dinicult to sec how she can be made to relinquish without with-out a light her gateway to tho open sea and her hold upon the home of the Golden Horde that ravaged her teuitoiles six hundred years ago and hold all that then was Russia beneath an lion lirel for two centuries. And thus It seuins t hat there has been slowly slow-ly arising a very dangerous situation for a good many years, where strong and irreconcilable Intciests have come In conflict. If the war that has boon looked foi ward to for years between Great Britain and Russia shall come through this situation, It may prove a long and disastrous struggle between the two most extensive empires of the world. Should they seek to attack each other at every point It would Involve In-volve practically all of Asia, a large area of Euiope, and a considerable porllonof every other continent on the globe. |