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Show Id "IN In liriia. AmongBbe nuny Imthers produced by tho swlcn expn on uf our territorial terri-torial posKlon Is one which though not ot no'r 1UI Importama still deserves de-serves n !" serious attention llllb erto tho'JcrrM far Hint nnd 'new r.ait' hato passed current with all Hngllsh ipeaslng peop( In the slg nlncancenatnrally allotted ti them by the Drlilituj. Tho near )-ul meant Irtlla tad thereabout, and thi far rnstfpcaat o rest ot the Orient, Includlnci Chlni, Jopin tho 1'bll p pines, nnJ the big Islands lying to the west off tl era Of course, strictly speaking for Amerlrans the custom-nrjs custom-nrjs me of "far anl 'near" has al wa)s bees vtrong but we had no personal per-sonal Inttcit in the matter, nnd for the sake of tonMnlencn fell In with tho Ilrltlih fashion It Is different now Tie far Past Is distinctly ou' near east, and vice vena, and tomi-thing tomi-thing ouiht to be done about It. Al ready confusion Is manifesting Itself, nml the trouble thieatcne to beeomo a real nnntynnre In the course of time. New lork Times. |